The philosophical case for not wearing make-up
Cambridge academic Clare Chambers explains why we need to get more comfortable in our own, unmodified skin.
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Devi Sridhar on the next pandemic and why she abandoned “zero Covid”
The Edinburgh professor discusses her new book, Scottish independence and why she “leans towards” the lab leak theory.
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Why adults should go to forest school
Richard Irvine has spent 25 years teaching children the ways of the woods. Suddenly, everyone wants to try it.
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Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”
The US professor, now 93, on the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear war.
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Francis Fukuyama: We could be facing the end of “the end of history”
The American political theorist discusses what the Ukraine war means for the future of liberal democracy.
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Why Thomas Piketty is optimistic about the left’s future
The French economist on his new book, the living standards crisis and why the “historical movement towards equality” will continue.
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“Darwin’s cultural bias was laced into his science”: Lucy Cooke on why evolutionary biology needs feminism
In her new book Bitch, the zoologist re-evaluates the myth of female submission in the animal kingdom.
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“I’m the patron saint of the dumped”: Florence Williams on the science of heartbreak
Being heartbroken can have a devastating effect on our physical as well as mental health. In her new book, the…
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