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The Great Right Brain Debate

Iain McGilchrist interviewed by Scott Barry Kaufman

Scott Barry Kaufman
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24 02 05 Human experience has been neglected by doctors

Breaking the silence on illness

Can we express what illness is like?

Havi Carel
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Life, agency, and the evolution of free will

How lifeless matter gained the power to choose

Kevin J. Mitchell
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The mind-body problem is ruining our health

Medicine’s Cartesian struggles

Camilla Nord
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A new theory of matter may help explain life

Bridging the gap between physics and biology

Lee Cronin
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The mystery of living things

On the emergence of life

Addy Pross
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The origin of consciousness

A new method for determining how and when consciousness evolved

Simona Ginsburg
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A new theory of matter may help explain life

Bridging the gap between physics and biology

Lee Cronin
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The rise of God-like beings

Overcoming the limits of being human

Mark Alan Walker
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Euthanasia isn't a slippery slope

Should euthanasia be legalized?

Emily Jackson
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You are not an exception

Taking the self out of statistics

Aubrey Clayton
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The microorganism that shaped humanity

Yeast has domesticated humans

Rob Dunn
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The post-antibiotic apocalypse is here

It's already the day after tomorrow

Lorenzo Servitje
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23 09 14.The brave new world of synthetic humans

The Brave New World of synthetic humans

The breakthrough of lab-grown embryos

Güneş Taylor
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We risk turning life into an illness

Is my doctor a neoliberal?

David Healy
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The microorganism that shaped humanity

Yeast has domesticated humans

Rob Dunn
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Ancient traits in modern life

How at odds is our neurobiology with our contemporary environment?

Darcy Bounsall
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Stem cells: the hype and the dangerous reality

Why stem cells are overhyped

Jeanne Loring
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The ocean is the engine of the Earth

Reframing our blue planet

Helen Czerski
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23 04 03 Cracking the code of life.dc

Cracking the creation of life

An exclusive interview with biochemist Nick Lane

Nick Lane
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23 03 28 Science makes politics absurd.dc

How science makes politics absurd

Where science unifies, politics pulls apart

Avi Loeb
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From Darwin to Derrida: evolution as interpretation

Genes are the text, evolution is the reader

David Haig
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Religion made us human

Nature didn't make us human, culture did

How religion made us a successful species

Victor Kumar
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The fight for the future of biology

The broken paradigm of Neo-Darwinism

Denis Noble
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