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‘Resilience’ has become one of our favourite compliments. People praise resilient children, resilient workers, resilient patients, resilient communities. The word shows up in school mission statements ...

My first camera was a small camcorder – about the size and shape of an iPod – that could upload videos straight to YouTube. For a pre-teen from the New York City suburbs in 2009, it felt like the ...

Some people might think that the consequences of having to avoid heights are minimal. But imagine you’re invited to a job interview on the 16th floor of a city office block. Or that your kids are ...

Awkwardness is ultimately a form of anxiety – often an uncomfortable, self-conscious feeling that the social order has been punctured in some small way. Yet there can be something quite funny about ...

The thought experiment known as Newcomb’s paradox pits participants against a supercomputer with near-perfect predictive ...

The way gambling is portrayed in the movies or in TV ads, it usually looks like a lot of fun. It’s exciting, and there’s often a social buzz. Maybe your own experiences with gambling started out this ...

Online spaces at the nexus of nutrition and wellbeing are teeming with their own form of junk food – quick fixes, sponsored ‘advice’ and pseudoscience conflated with the real thing. However, as the US ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

Sophists like Protagoras used the rhetoric of antilogic to escape from the illusion of truth and make room for uncertainty In Syracuse, 2,500 years ago, there was a famous teacher of rhetoric named ...

Time magazine named ‘The Protester’ its 2011 Person of the Year amid Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and anti-austerity protests in Europe. This was before the Gezi Park demonstrations in Turkey, ...

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