Is there anyone out there?
It's very unlikely, says Arnold Wolfendale. When lecturing on the search for extra-terrestrial life and the future of life on earth, I usually start by asking "how many of you believe that there is...
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The sleep of reason ... is a female nightmare
* There are 44 million "missing women" in China alone, 36.9 million in India. * In India the "missing women" comprise 9.5 per cent of the number of actual women, in Pakistan 12.9 per cent * When only...
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Genetic screening
Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee look at how genetic determinism in the media fosters acceptance of controlling reproduction for a common good. When in 1991, CBS commentator Andy Rooney said on...
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The sleep of reason...
Feminists have denounced liberalism for being too individualistic, too abstract and obsessed with reason. But Martha Nussbaum argues that where you mistrust the habits of prejudice, there you have...
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Final word
This week's Final Word comes from a biologist who was spectacularly doused by his colleagues: "The stewardship of environment is a domain on the near side of metaphysics where all reflective persons...
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Dances with neurons
Conscious Experience - Stairway to the Mind - After Life - Ten Problems of Consciousness
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Wandering women and the 24th sage
The Peaceful Liberators - Riches and Renunciation
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Seen worshipping with intent
The Archetypal Actions of Ritual
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The future's not what it used to be
Time's Arrows Today
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Take note of the margins
Beyond Prejudice
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Lives unlived and unliveable
Rethinking Life and Death
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Vain pursuit of a magus
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic
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Balancing acts in a nervous age
Philosophical Arguments
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Senses of self
Identity
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Brave new worlders
Science and the Retreat from Reason