Health Showing off that shiny red rump I despise gyms. I honestly couldn’t tell you if it is the nauseating funk emanating from dozens of perspiring bodies […] NP20: Play edition, digital version
Environment The pale orange dot Look up and you see the colour that defines our world. At least, our world today. It’s a blue that […] Climate
Environment Changing the Earth’s atmosphere Interviewee: Charley Lineweaver Interviewer: Tim Dean Tim Dean: Most people are probably familiar with just one atmosphere: our own. How […] Climate
Philosophy and you Are we getting smarter? Your typical adult from 1900 was pretty dumb, by today’s standards. Yank one off the street and run them through […] NP23: Human edition, digital version
Death Dying for your beliefs Not all arguments are created equal. Many aren’t even arguments at all. Even utterances that appear to be advancing a […] NP25: Death edition, digital version
Being Human You are not who you think you are You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been […] NP26: Change edition, digital version
Ideas to change your life Work less, live more Why do we work so much? Why do we even work at all? For a great chunk of human history […] Work
Ideas to change your life Prosperity paradox Picture for a moment a world where technological innovation and industrial automation have finally brought us an era of unprecedented […] Work
Happiness Cake, sex and fame Cake, sex and fame. Their lure is strong. If something pushes our sweet, sex or status buttons, we spark right […]
Ideas to change your life 3 theories to take to a desert island If you had to choose just three theories to explain as much of the world as possible, which would you […] Fame
Illusions Hard problems and zombie twins I would like to introduce you to your zombie twin. Far from the crass Hollywood representations of zombies, your twin […]
Ideas to change your life 5 Ideas: Is there a solid core that makes you you? Ideas are powerful things. Even a little one can change the way you look at the world. And the big […] Previous editions