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Science & Health

The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research

Researchers can’t progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and their fees ...
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Ethics & Religion

How I dropped the dogma and took control of my own destiny

I was about six years old when the parish priest walked into the room. His vestments swirled around him as ...
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Education

The need to learn ‘critical ignoring’

The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time. A boundless wealth of high-quality information is ...
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History

Beethoven, music and human progress

One morning a few days ago, a sublimely mild and sunny summer day, I was walking the several kilometres into ...
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History

Holocaust remembrance: We must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking

In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or ‘the age’, was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down ...
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Science & Health

Success without substance

New Zealander Nigel Richards has won the French Scrabble championship twice. What’s more remarkable than double wins is that Nigel doesn’t ...
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