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The death and rebirth of attention

The hidden costs of collective attention

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After the death of the grand narrative

How to fill the void of the postmodern age

Matt McManus
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Psychedelics go beyond the limits of truth

How psychedelics increase openness to reality

Henry Straughan
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How religion wrote the playbook for Big Tech

Studying religion from the outside in

Paul Seabright
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How self-help gets reality wrong

Reality and the self are perpetually incomplete

Christian Kumpost
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You are not one Self, you are many

Time is up for the unified Self

Joanna Nadin
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Camus on the Absurd and Love

Albert Camus on love and the absurd

Absurdity may be king, but love saves us from it

Jamie Lombardi
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Psychedelic experience isn’t just brain chemistry

Not just a lightshow

Ricky Williamson
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Authentic love requires independence and equality.

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The History and Politics of Boredom

Boredom isn't personal: it's the mark of modernity

Elizabeth S. Goodstein
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To Gift or Not to Gift? A Philosopher's Dilemma

Give your loved ones a priceless gift: attention.

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Why running makes you a better person

Plato's marathon to morality

Sabrina B. Little
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There is no such thing as impartiality

The tribalism of non-partisans

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Bad news is bad news for society

When negativity is a vehicle for status

Denise Baden
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Facts won't win the conspiracy war

Where did all the facts go?

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Personality tests misunderstand you

The dark side of self-diagnosis

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Referencing is a sham

How authority gets mistaken for the truth

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The myth of feminist perfection

The capitalism of International Women’s Day

Jessica Ford
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External reality mutes the psychedelic mind

How environmental context controls our brain

Pedro A. Mediano
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Heidegger's route to reality

Escaping from distraction

Simon Glendinning
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We should turn our back on history

Embracing uncertainty to understand the future

Alexis Papazoglou
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The benefit of breaking your New Year's resolutions

January's opressive perfectionism

Rebecca Roache
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