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Pascal Bruckner takes on Western guilt, self-loathing, and ‘apocalyptic propaganda’
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18Jun
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Over the years, humans have made some mind-blowing revisions and revelations to science and history that challenge what we know to be true.
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A new collection of bawdy medieval French tales reminds us that our ancestors were a dirty bunch. By Yunte Huang.
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Authors on Museums: among the Pre-Raphaelites at the Tate in London is a strange, intricate, unfinished painting by a patricidal Victorian lunatic. Neil Gaiman, himself a master of fantasy, falls under its spell
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Can humor help us better understand the most complex and enigmatic organ in the human body?
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Bernard-Henri Lévy, philosopher, film-maker, action man, saviour of Libya, scourge of pithiness, peripatetic paramour and shirt-button revisionist, is afraid of paintings.
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The trick to fatherhood has a lot to do with the brain — and how close a dad gets to his kids. At least that’s the message from a mounting pile of research into the neurological and hormonal cues that translate into fatherly nurturing.
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Paulo Furtado‘s insight:
"If you consider that the English and the French spent a good part of 800 years at war with each other, it’s not surprising that relations between the two peoples and their cultures remain awkward. The latest manifestation of this came last week. We learned that many people in France have been up in arms about plans to allow English to be used to teach science courses in its universities. The British, in turn, have found such fury and indignation hilarious."
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15Jun
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In my life I have grown three beards, covering many of my adult faces. My present hairiness is monumental, and I intend to carry it into the grave.
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As a teenager in 1960, Clyde Edgerton was trying to find a name for the doubts he was feeling about his conventional, small-town life in Bethesda, North Carolina.
Then, a high school assignment o
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