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Is Reading Really As Beneficial for Your Grades as Teachers Say? 📚

Mar 17, 2026

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7 min read

Is Reading Really As Beneficial for Your Grades as Teachers Say? 📚

PLUS: The 19th Century Devil, Mathematical Beauty, and Building Brasília 🇧🇷

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Philosophy

How Do We Know the Sun Will RISE Tomorrow? 🌞

Mar 10, 2026

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6 min read

How Do We Know the Sun Will RISE Tomorrow? 🌞

Psychology

Consciousness = a THEATRE?! 🧠

Mar 3, 2026

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6 min read

Consciousness = a THEATRE?! 🧠

Medicine

Patchwork People: Transplantation and the Problem of Rejection ❌

Feb 24, 2026

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7 min read

Patchwork People: Transplantation and the Problem of Rejection ❌

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Law

If I See Someone Drowning and Do Not Help, Am I Liable for Their Injuries? 🤔

Feb 17, 2026

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8 min read

If I See Someone Drowning and Do Not Help, Am I Liable for Their Injuries? 🤔

PLUS: Giants of the Deep, Why Superbugs Thrive in Hospitals, and The History of Chocolate 🍫

Music

Does it matter that Beethoven was Deaf? 🎵

Feb 10, 2026

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8 min read

Does it matter that Beethoven was Deaf? 🎵

PLUS: Monkey Names, NYC and Water, and Inherited Wealth 💰

Medicine

Don’t take too much Calpol: drugs and the body 💊

Feb 3, 2026

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7 min read

Don’t take too much Calpol: drugs and the body 💊

PLUS: Kessler Syndrome, Geradus Mercator, and Artifacts That “Shouldn’t” Exist 🗿

English

A False Dream: The Failure of the American Canon 🇺🇸

Jan 27, 2026

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6 min read

A False Dream: The Failure of the American Canon 🇺🇸

PLUS: OJ and Toothpaste, The Key to Ancient Egypt, and 4 billion years of tectonics 🌍️

Modern Foreign Languages

Where do our voices come from? Marguerite Duras’ India Song 🗣️

Jan 20, 2026

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8 min read

Where do our voices come from? Marguerite Duras’ India Song 🗣️

PLUS: Racism and Swimming Pools, Death-Defying Rats, and Why AI Can’t Tell the Time ⏲️

Biology

Choose a functional character! 🐙

Jan 13, 2026

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8 min read

Choose a functional character! 🐙

PLUS: Nuclear Armageddon (almost), Microtonal Music, and AI Doctors? 🩺