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In 2011, we welcomed world renowned American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker to the Intelligence S
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Have the forces of tidiness marched too far? Would we all benefit from being a bit messy? That’s the
It’s one month since we woke up to the shock news that the next president of the United States will
What is going on in the Western democracies? From Britain’s vote for Brexit, to Donald Trump’s elect
Intelligence Squared brought out the big guns for our debate on what a post-referendum deal between
Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. So said Winsto
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Not everyone tells the truth. ‘Read my lips: no new taxes.’ ‘This isn’t going to hurt.’ ‘I see no sh
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Genetics has revolutionised not just how we think of biology but how we think of ourselves. We are,
We can’t say Karl Marx didn’t warn us: capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. In thei
This panel discussion took place at the New York Academy of Sciences in September 2016 and was produ
Myths. We tend to think they’re a thing of the past, fabrications that early humans needed to believ
