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What AI-narrated audiobooks tell us about reading and big tech.

It’s quite common to see whole Indigenous families on bikes – including pets and tiny children.

Some of the most innovative people in the world earn Nobel Prizes. Scholars of creativity identify what they have in common and what regular people can learn and emulate from their examples.

Talk of “breaking down the barriers” is all too often a cover for breaking down academic disciplines to create administrative flexibility.

Perhaps the best way to understand the reasons why people embark on these journeys is to put yourself in their shoes.

Anyone involved in the creation of a song is a songwriter.

What we can learn from squatters, climate protestors and desert hippies.

The story can be traced back many centuries to a time of warfare between Christian European countries and the Muslim Ottoman Empire.

Decades of research shows how negative childhood events – such as abuse or neglect – can have a detrimental impact on a person’s long-term physical and mental health. It has been linked to accelerated ageing, chronic disease and even premature death. Stress experienced in childhood may also influence our genes and be passed on to offspring. So unless the cycle is broken, it may continue from generation to generation. When we talk about childhood adversity, it can cover specific experienc...

As a society, we have to choose between liberty, equality and mortality. We can't have all three.