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Killing pain kills pleasure

On the value of suffering

Brock Bastian
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Playing in the concrete jungle

How urban design can awaken our sense of play

Anna Boldina
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The common sense myth

Who gets to decide what it is?

Peter West
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The virtues of propaganda

Why facts don't change people's minds

Anna M. Hennessey
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Solitude is vital for a happy life

Why we confuse solitude and loneliness

Netta Weinstein
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Lost in translation: debunking universal language

Conquering the curse of Babel

Philip Seargeant
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How to Create a Cult

How do cults survive in the modern world?

Eileen Barker
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Return of the Living Dead

Slavoj Žižek examines humanity's fascination with the living dead

Slavoj Žižek
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3 questions with Anna Dumitriu

The sublime is still relevant, to science and art

Anna Dumitriu
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The Point of Art

Art has always been a part of human nature. Why?

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The Music Instinct

Music is a key part of what makes us human.

Philip Ball
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Music and Memory: 3 questions with Joanna Bailie

The composer discusses the unique power of music.

Joanna Bailie
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Music, grief, and philosophy

Finding solace in sound

Kathleen Higgins
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Barbie and De Beauvoir: Existentialism Unboxed

Is she "Simone-enough"?

Stephanie Garcia
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Beyond the Hero

How movies move us

Noël Carroll
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Art, essence and mortality

Can we capture someone’s character by their external appearance?

Peter Lamarque
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Morality shouldn't matter to artists

The Positive Case for Cruelty

Amelia Watts
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Casting light on gender in Dark Souls

Women's corruption and bondage

Benjamin Carpenter
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The right brain is essential to creativity

Iain McGilchrist vs Scott Barry Kaufman

Iain McGilchrist
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Daydreaming of Apocalypse

Why do we crave dystopia?

Florian Mussgnug
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Orwell, Huxley and the path to truth

How fiction can help us to understand reality

Emrah Atasoy
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The uses and abuses of the 'Russian soul'

The weaponization of Russian identity

Josephine von Zitzewitz
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