People gather at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, in 1989.
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Political scientists describe the age we are living in as “post-political”. This controversial concept refers to a noted lack of political alternatives on a global scale.
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Philosophers have been debating whether we need conditioning to link information from different senses for centuries.
Pyper Braun as Alice with Chauncey the bear.
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Some children have companions that are disobedient or even mean.
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Some people have subtitles synaesthesia’ which means they see all speech appear as writing in their mind. And they only realised not everyone thinks this way when they saw a research study ad.
Your brain can imagine things that haven’t happened or that don’t even exist.
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By learning what parts of the brain are crucial for imagination to work, neuroscientists can look back over hundreds of millions of years of evolution to figure out when it first emerged.
Maladaptive daydreaming differs from regular daydreaming in many ways.
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Maladaptive daydreaming affects about 2.5% of people.
A man holding a Q sign waits in line to enter a Donald Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in 2018.
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The key to understanding online conspiracy theorists is to understand how the line between fantasy and reality can become blurred.
Children of color are hardly ever central characters in sci-fi books for kids.
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Science fiction books can inspire more children to become scientists if authors and illustrators do a better job of depicting characters from diverse backgrounds.
Six former UK prime ministers and a potential new one in Labour’s Keir Starmer.
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The gravity of the current situation is obscuring a less visible crisis – a failure of political imagination
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The condition challenges the centuries-old idea that all great artists are able to envision what they’re drawing.
Metaphors are figures of speech that imply likeness; they can be useful tools in dealing with pandemic fatigue.
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Creative problem-solving using metaphors can help us deal with the long-term anxiety and challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Achieving a radically different tomorrow will require more than a purely technocratic approach. So now, imagine you are in the year 2050 …
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How walking side by side can help to resolve conflict and improve people’s sense of connection with others.
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Experiments show that children who pretend to be their favourite character persist for longer on a task than children not pretending.
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These seven cli-fi novels will get you fired up for action.
Finding a fitness routine that fits your life and then sticking to it is key.
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Research shows that the more adults identify with exercise or physical activity, the more they engage in it.
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An exciting announcement about upcoming plans – and we revisit an old favourite episode.
To imagine is to form a mental image, to think, believe, dream, picture.
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The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley believed that we can exercise our moral imagination ‘in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb’. Here, then, are some tips for fostering empathy through art.
‘Let’s go on an adventure, Teddy.’
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Children with imaginary friends tend to be creative and have more empathy.
Writing for pleasure improves long-term learning outcomes in a range of areas, including maths and science.
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There needs to be more opportunity in school and at home for students to learn to write for enjoyment.