Plasma, the mysterious (and powerful) fourth phase of matter
When I was at elementary school, my teacher told me that matter exists in three possible states:...
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Power to the People: Civil Society’s Role in Preventing Violent Extremism
UN Photo/Loey Felipe Ahead of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy’s biennial...
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Network visualisations show what we can and what we may know
In 1928 Jacob Levy Moreno, a Vienna-trained psychiatrist who had recently emigrated to New York,...
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Do you see a duck or a rabbit: what is aspect perception?
The duck-rabbit image above is one of the most iconic in philosophy – so iconic that a former...
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To get a grip on altruism, see humans as molecules
‘What is life?’ In 1943, Erwin Schrödinger posed this question in a series of lectures at Trinity...
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Why sports fans need villains
Vassilis Dalakas, California State University San Marcos As the new NBA season begins, the Golden...
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The emotion centre is the oldest part of the human brain: why is mood so important?
Genevieve Rayner, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health The brain is key to our...
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Why science needs to break the spell of reductive materialism
We all sense something deeply deficient in our modern civilisation. Is it an absence of...
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Does Pixar’s Inside Out show how memory actually works?
Jennifer Talarico, Lafayette College Disney/Pixar’s newest film, Inside Out, tells the story of...
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Found: the missing part of brain’s ‘internal compass’
Theresa Burt de Perera, University of Oxford and Tim Guilford, University of Oxford If you have...
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