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AI can take over many writing tasks. But there is something irreplaceable about a text with an author standing behind it ...

I grew up knowing the first day of deer-hunting season without ever looking at a calendar. In rural southern Indiana, the ...

If only I’d had the courage to say I loved him before he married someone else. I should have gone to law school like I had planned to. What possibilities might have opened up for me? I could’ve ...

The aim is to do it in good style’: an ageing mountaineer reflects on the risks and rewards of a life of adventure ...

Like a pair of chopsticks, this Beijing couple have been making art – independently, in tandem – for more than 20 years ...

Frank Borman, William Anders and James Lovell – escaped Earth’s orbit, travelling 240,000 miles further than anyone before them, becoming the first human beings to see Earth from the Moon’s orbit. The ...

The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone Mental illness is often thought to be a matter of individual disorder.

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As tech giants and algorithms distort the information landscape, what’s left of the individual’s duty to be informed? How might we alleviate our society’s misinformation problem? One suggestion goes ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

There are many kinds of pseudosciences: astrology, homeopathy, flat-Earthism, anti-vaxx. These ‘fields’ traffic in bizarre claims with scientific pretensions. On a surface level, these claims seem to ...