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Beyond causality

Beyond causality

In 1959, the English writer and physicist C P Snow delivered the esteemed Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge. Regaled with champagne and...

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Gordon Gillespie

How the Moon became a place

How the Moon became a place

On 25 May 1961, the US president John F Kennedy announced the Apollo programme: a mission to send humans to the Moon and return them safely to...

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Danny Robb

Slow-motion tongues

Slow-motion tongues

Kurt Schwenk, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut, views reptile and amphibian tongues as his...

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A former slave’s letter to his old master

A former slave’s letter to his old master

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...

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So many unmarried men

So many unmarried men

In the 1950s, the philosopher Mary Midgley did something that, according to philosophical orthodoxy, she wasn’t supposed to do. In a BBC radio...

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Ellie Robson

The cheekiest potter

The cheekiest potter

‘Is it crazy enough?’ ‘Is it stupid enough?’ ‘Is it beautiful enough?’ These are just a few of the prompts the British ceramicist Katrin Moye has...

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Poverty is not permanent

Poverty is not permanent

Not seeing it requires effort. In the world today, despite ongoing economic growth and unprecedented levels of wealth accumulation, those who are...

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Anirudh Krishna & Dirk Philipsen