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The hostile environment that marginalised people find themselves in serves as a source of constant stress.
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As companies and governments attempt to intensify extraction, cultural resistance offers a space for imagining alternative futures.
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A public meeting of flat earthers is a product and sign of our times.
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Despite the prevalence of Fairtrade sugar in UK society, the sugarcane industry remains deeply troubled.
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From #SoyBoy to #MilkTwitter, there’s a sinister side to milk.
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AI seems able to answer questions at the heart of humanitarianism – questions such as who we should save, and how to be effective at scale.
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Emmanuel Macron is driving through his neoliberal agenda by relying on French police forces renowned for their violence against ethnic minority citizens, protestors and migrants.
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That pre-sleep herbal tea may be doing many people a lot of good.
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The story of this video game speaks to what seems a powerful political moment, of an American nation literally at war with itself.
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There is a long, dishonourable history of detrimental policy going back to the 15th century.
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Governments have started to see automation as the key to brighter urban futures. But what will this look like?
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A mythical Amazonia of lost tribes or lost cities is easy to challenge on a factual basis, but such objections appear rather feeble in the face of the power of cliché.
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Humans are already imposing our barely understood sexual ethic upon machines.
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Each discipline tells us only part of the story. And so the truest picture of prehistory comes from triangulating these independent lines of evidence.
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We can either take advantage of advances in technology to enhance human beings (never to go back), or we can legislate to prevent this from happening.
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Multiple reports have convincingly demonstrated that agroecology is the most promising pathway to sustainable food systems on all continents. But governments aren’t doing enough to support it.
Reconstruction of the bite wound affecting the shoulder of our herbivorous dinosaur.
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New research uses pathology in dinosaur bones to look at predator-prey interactions in the fossil record.
Cut from the same Christian cloth?
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Putin and Trump both invoke a kind of religion that emphasises a past golden age, rather than shared practices of church attendance and piety.
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The tale of the snow crab bears witness to the how the complexities of climate change and fights over fishing rights play out.
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Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.