Let the kids out
If you go to the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, you will find that it has been transformed into a gigantic playground, on…
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An antidote to prejudice
It was a time of deep divisions, much like our day. Hatred seemed intractable and the curse of bias rife, when a sharecropper’s daughter…
Medicating the masses
In November of last year I took part in a public debate in London; the motion – which I proposed – was that: “Psychiatrists…
Divorced from nature: interview with Jane Goodall
Zan Boag: Your life’s work has revolved around the understanding and protection of great apes, “with the aim of inspiring individual action to help…
Thinking ahead
Søren Kierkegaard famously pointed out that the only way we can understand life is backwards – we are compelled to live moving forwards, but…
Fake news
“The essence of bullshit,” argued philosopher Harry Frankfurt in his 2005 book On Bullshit, “is not that it is false but that it is…
Not eating things
There’s never been a better time in history to be the kind of person who enjoys not eating things. In my corner of New…
The real digital revolution
The Internet has transformed our economies, our culture and politics, and our very way of life to such an extent over the past four…
Why school must change
Zan Boag: Your research has focused on education over the course of many years. Why have you concentrated your efforts in this area? Jane…
The classroom of the future
Here’s one of my favourite neologisms: “hangry.” It’s a punning portmanteau. To be hangry is to be angry because you’re hungry; a phenomenon that…
A property crisis: interview with Thomas Piketty
Zan Boag: You write in Capital that inherited wealth is the key to inequality, that it is almost as decisive a factor as it…
An app for an ailing planet
It is often said that the first full image of the ‘blue planet’, taken by the Apollo 17 space mission in December 1972, revealed…
