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But his most memorable job remains making bread with those labeled unfit to live in society. At 5 am, a correction officer ...

How does memory transform far away from home? A Sudanese artist uses a surreal lens to capture his longing and nostalgia ...

Many of us crave trivial details while ignoring much of the world around us. Research helps explain this selective curiosity ...

What would it mean to love a stranger just as you love your closest friends? A philosopher makes a case for ‘love ethics’ ...

I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...

We all make wrong decisions, but if you’re a ‘maximiser’ rather than a ‘satisficer’, the regret hurts all the more ...

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