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100 Women in Tech and Founders to Follow on Twitter

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How News Drives Economic Change

News of a big pay rise might see you booking the nearest fancy restaurant for a slap-up meal to celebrate, or encourage you to go on a shopping spree even before your raise hits your bank account.  Recent research shows that this is also essentially what happens on a wider economic scale when news breaks about future […]

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The Idea Of God Has One Major Flaw

I don’t believe, especially as an aspiring scientist, that I can call myself an atheist. At most I can claim to be agnostic for there is no way to prove that God doesn’t exist. Having grown up in the Southeastern United States, I was introduced at a young age to Christianity. It remains the religion […]

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The Meat Paradox

Key Takeaways: Most people eat meat and dairy with little thought of the consequences. Feeding the world’s appetite for meat costs the lives of billions of animals a year, and animal welfare is a concern on farms worldwide, with pigs, cowsand chickens often subject to overcrowding, open wounds and disease. In what is no doubt […]

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Does Being Religious Make You More Ethical?

Key Takeaways: Can religion and spirituality promote ethical behaviour in the workplace? We work out our differences of opinion and come to some acceptable middle ground at all times trying to value our core beliefs. Some have argued that religiosity and religious-based spirituality could promote unethical behaviour. These initiatives consequently promote ethical decision making in […]

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How Will ChatGPT Transform Philosophy

Key Takeaway: In 1950 English mathematician Alan Turing proposed an “imitation game” where a judge entered into a typed dialogue with an AI pretending to be human as a way of testing if the AI was intelligent. Lex.page is an AI-enabled writing tool that can generate text or answer questions. In 2018, Google unveiled Duplex, […]

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Do You Suffer From Camera Fatigue?

New research into the use of videoconferencing and the increasingly common practice whereby companies oblige employees to keep their cameras on at all times, supposedly to facilitate better communication and team bonding, reveals that instead it often makes people tired and isolated. Needless to say, the research has attracted attention, given the huge number of people working […]

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How Stoicism Influenced Music

Key Takeaways: Have you ever turned to music when struggling with a difficult emotion, like sadness, anxiety or anger? Mental health held particular salience for the band. According to Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, the album is about “life with a heartbeat,” and the band signals this by opening and closing the album with a slow, […]

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The World’s Most Disturbing Piece Of Art

The series culminated with Rhythm 0, or what can surely be described as one of the world’s most profound and yet horrifying pieces of art. All of the performances in the Rhythm series were meant to test the limits of the human body, beginning with knife-play in the first performance and gradually mounting to the destruction and seduction […]

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Consumerism vs. Cultivation

Over the past three years, I have become increasingly disappointed in capitalism. It’s not that I’ve landed on the wrong side of the equation. I am squarely on the “winning” side. So, my misgivings aren’t fueled by personal feelings of exclusion or hardship. They are fed by an increasing awareness about the extent of destruction […]

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Megacities In The Digital Age

Key Takeaways: Digitization and crowdsourcing will actually undermine the very foundations of the megacity economy, which is typically built on some combination of manufacturing, commerce, retail and professional services. Shopping malls, for example, which once thrived in megacities, are now suffering from the advent of e-commerce. Today, megacities have become synonymous with economic growth. In both developing and […]

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The Art Of Getting Lost

Key Takeaway: In 1967, French philosopher Guy Debord argued that we should not be passively consumed by images, but rather engage with them. The Situationist International movement, formed in 1957, aimed to create new ways to reflect on and experience cities as acts of resistance against profit-motivated capitalist structures. The group’s philosophy suggests that we […]

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The Importance Of Ritual

Key Takeaway: A “ritual” is a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order. They are often embedded in a larger symbolic system, such as religion or philosophy. The oldest evidence for ancient rituals is found at Mt Carmel in Israel, where a woman was buried 130,000 years ago. Rituals play an important role […]

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The Role Of Faith In The Age Of Science And Reason

Key Takeaway: Pope Francis praised the “brilliant and inquisitive mind” of French philosopher Blaise Pascal, born 400 years ago. Pascal’s work, including the first calculating machines and public transport system, emphasized the importance of understanding one’s true human nature. He believed that faith in God is essential for human happiness and that humans must make […]

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The Perception Of Sentience

Key Takeaways: Any suggestion that a bee, or any invertebrate, had a mind of its own or that it could experience the world in an intricate and multifaceted way would be met with ridicule. Failure to recognise your hive and return home equals death. The questions we pose to understand the minds of bees must […]

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Who Invented Music?

Key Takeaways: The short answer is: No one knows who invented music. The earliest civilizations throughout Africa, Europe and Asia had music. But again, people were not singing complete melodies or songs; our modern lullabies – like “Rock-a-bye Baby” – took centuries to develop. In Greece, instruments like the krotola, a set of hollow blocks […]

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