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Eternity projects
By Marina Benjamin When the British Museum in London was in the process of acquiring its spectacular wave-form roof in the late 1990s, I…
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What makes a good death?
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore Last year my 92-year-old grandmother, April, wrote a letter to The Times of London: “Sir, Why do we have to announce,…
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Ideas to change your life
Balance: what is the Goldilocks day?
By Tim Olds There’s nothing more democratic than time. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates and the Dalai Lama, Usain Bolt and Serena…
Illusions
False media balance
In March 2018, a man named Mike Hughes climbed into a homemade, steam-powered rocket, and launched himself 700 metres above the Mojave Desert floor.…
Ideas to change your life
The obsolete human being
By William Watkin Now Take one last look at your smartphone. You probably regard it as the cutting edge of technology, and those…
Being Human
Humans of the Anthropocene
By Roy Scranton. You can walk to the beach from where we are staying. It’s a long peel of dun-coloured sand bordered by tidy…
Being Human
Human trafficking
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore A man walks into a mall. His eyes scan the crowds. Finally, he spots what he’s looking for: a teenage girl.…
Being Human
Doing away with death
By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use are designed with planned…
Being Human
Caught in the web
By Antonia Case “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity,…
Being Human
Defining ourselves
By Ai Weiwei Many of the problems in the world today, when one reflects upon them, call for an answer to an ancient question:…
Time
Set your alarm clock
Physicists are not sure what time is or how it works. The dominant position is the one articulated recently by Carlo Rovelli, who reminds…