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What a viral fake lasagne taught me about failure After it appeared in the Museum of Failure in 2017, photos of the "Colgate Lasagna" began to go viral on Twitter and Reddit—not to mention in ...

But spending time with them crystallised for me just how big a billionaire problem the world now has, and why solving it may be a precondition for successful action on so many of the other problems we ...

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This is not the time for negotiations over Ukraine. Successful peace negotiations usually require both a mutually hurting stalemate (a specific concept in diplomacy) and leadership on both sides ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...

A new paper argues that AI should be treated as a ‘normal’ technology like electricity or the internet. But it’s far more unknowable ...

“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.

Derek Parfit and Janet Radcliffe-Richards believe that philosophy should guide behaviour. Their marriage shows that it can ...

Aristotle’s thinking on democracy has more relevance than ever The will of the people in its purest form leaves little room for the rule of law ...

If current immigration levels continue, white Britons will be in a minority in the UK in little more than 50 years—within the lifespan of most young a ...