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poetry as I need it . Like the negative space against which words become visible (voids emphasised in ...

is a PhD candidate in toxicology at Iowa State University. Many people believe that chemicals, particularly the man-made ones, are highly dangerous. After all, more than 80,000 chemicals have been ...

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Suppose we could talk to whales – should we? Experts explore the scientific and philosophical challenges of decoding whale song ...

is a research fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection (2021) and The ...

is a German-born historian of science and magic who runs the Forbidden Histories website. His first book Psychical Research and the Formation of Modern Psychology is forthcoming. He lives in the UK.

is professor of economics at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of Richer and More Equal (2024).

is a lecturer in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University in Wales, UK. He is the editor of Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy (2022) and the author of Nietzsche’s ...

In the events series Letters Live, performers read notable letters – old and new, original and written by others – in front of a live audience. In this video, as part of the Letters Live event at ...