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Women with AIDS were excluded from the US definition of the syndrome until 1993. What’s changed?
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Economists try to create and use maps to navigate the world of human choices. But in some ways, these maps are limited.
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If an alien landed on Earth, how would you decide if it had free will like us, or was a sophisticated automaton?
Salah celebrates scoring a goal.
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Whenever Salah scores a goal, he performs sujood, the Islamic act of prostration. Fans’ reactions to it underscore the state of British Muslimness today.
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The word only appears 14 times in the UK’s parliamentary record between 1803 and 2005. Now it is everywhere.
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The internet has not only changed the kinds of answers historical study can provide, but also what questions can be asked.
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One stock history of medicine tale is that trepanning is one of the most ancient treatments for migraines.
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Speaking up and telling the truth is important, but we need to be mindful that it is risky, far from safe for all victims and survivors.
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A clock designed to work for 10 millennia is being built – but what is the point of it?
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The possible join between the fragments of an ancient epic written in cuneiform in London and Geneva has been speculated for over 50 years.
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Social media platforms can identify children who are most interested in or vulnerable to junk food and its advertising.
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Englishness has been found in diverse places and has taken diverse forms.
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It is no accident that practices of meditation and mindfulness have become so ubiquitous in our neoliberal times.
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Ursula le Guin gave us an anarchist society on another world; we brought it back to Earth.
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Recent deaths within the pornography industry in the US have reignited debates on labour conditions and mental health.
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The statistics point remorselessly towards obesity being a symptom with an underlying social cause. That should completely change the approach to dealing with it.
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Parasites are not only a personal health problem – they are political too.
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The history of the rubber ‘boom’ reveals why.
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Seven rules for break up in the digital age.
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We should be worried about the development of social skills in a world where everyone can have their ‘perfect’ AI friend.