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Warren met his cancer diagnosis with tenacious optimism. But can positive thinking really affect the course of the disease?

Warren met his cancer diagnosis with tenacious optimism. But can positive thinking really affect the course of the disease?
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A deathbed scenario raises the question: how much power should a promise hold?

How much power should a promise hold, and when – if ever – should a promise be broken? In this brief animation, Sarah Stroud, the director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North ...
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Retracing Mark Twain’s path, a filmmaker sets out to understand the mighty Mississippi

The US director Bill Brown is known for his short documentaries contemplating peculiar, often overlooked corners of the American landscape. Inspired by Mark Twain’s book Life on the Mississippi (1883) ...
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Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy

is assistant professor of aesthetics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows. She is the author of The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores ...
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The current theory for the origin of the Universe is remarkably successful yet full of explanatory holes. Expect surprises

is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. His new book Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant will be published in October 2025.