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Why did GE Moore disappear from history?

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The AI delusion: why humans trump machines

What people get wrong about Bertrand Russell

High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet, but it won't reform itself

The myth of the golden age of reading

Britain’s Reichstag Fire Moment

Britain’s Reichstag Fire Moment

Is reason the slave of the passions?

The black hole picture is one of the most deceptive scientific images ever

The Invigorating Strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche

Why it’s time to reappraise the humble Choose Your Own Adventure book

Kurt Gödel and the romance of logic

How Twitter poisoned politics

The Dark Side of Early Diagnosis

Wilde about Paris: the sex, drink and liberation of Oscar Wilde’s “lost” years

Leonard Bernstein invented how we do modern classical music

How the human got his paintbrush

Accounts of the financial crisis leave out the dollar swap deals between banks

What Orwell discovered in the North

Anthony Burgess at 100: unearthly powers

A brief history of air-conditioning (2006)

Esperanto: the language that never was

Our preoccupation with gender identity is a cultural step backwards

How Words Shape Our World

What This Medieval Wine Jug Can Tell Us About Islam

Are only poets safe from robots?

Joseph Conrad: anticipating terrorism

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