Do liberal arts liberate? | In Jack London’s novel, Martin Eden personifies debates still raging over the role and purpose of education in American life

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Against neurodiversity

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Liberalism against capitalism | The work of John Rawls shows that liberal values of equality and freedom are fundamentally incompatible with capitalism (I would argue that what is defined as capitalism is the "left" as opposed to liberalism, but an interesting read still)

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The key to geckos’ unrivalled climbing skills isn’t sticky feet. It’s electric (VanderWaals force)

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The ancient Cynics taught that masturbation is about more than pleasure: it suggests how to live simply and autonomously

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David Deutsch: How close are we to creating an artificial intelligence

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Why the pull of addictive cravings is so hard to resist

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Cracking the Cretan code

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No, Mozart isn’t a brain hack for babies – here’s how music really affects intelligence

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The abuses of Popper. A powerful cadre of scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for.

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GC: This article explains well that even if there are only two sexes, and not many sexes, or a continuum of sexes, "trans men are men, and trans women are women", do you have any arguments against the things said in this article? What are your arguments?

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The biology of dads - The bodies and brains of fathers, not just mothers, are transformed through the love and labour of raising a child

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Privacy is power

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Prelude to the space age – the 1960 film that inspired ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

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Aeon is publishing some of the most profound and provocative thinking on the web.

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Philosopher of science Cordelia Fine on charges of ‘feminist bias’.

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Gender is not a spectrum

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The new mind control - The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do

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Depressive realism

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, then it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, then it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, then it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, then it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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The Salacious Middle Ages

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Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true – Philip Goff | Aeon Ideas

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Gregory Bateson Changed the Way we Think About Changing Ourselves

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Civilisational collapse has a bright past – but a dark future – Luke Kemp | Aeon Ideas

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"Meritocracy" - an enduring and unhealthy myth.

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How an unplanned picture from Apollo 8 altered humanity’s perspective of Earth

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For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. — Will medicine ever recover from the perverse economics of drugs?

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