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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 shortlist - in pictures
Gorgeous galaxies and stunning stars make up this selection of pictures from the shortlisted entries for this year’s Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year award. By Eric Hilaire.
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Does Your ‘Self’ Have a Soul?
Most religions claim that there is more to the self than the brain. The traditional understanding is that human sentience and selfhood are conveyed via some kind of nonphysical substance, often called a ‘soul.’ By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
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Children Don’t Always Live
I lost a child, and yet I chose to become a father again. Is that bravery or stupidity? By Jayson Greene.
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You Only Live Twice
Nancy Sinatra
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The Legend of What Actually Lived in the “No Man’s Land” Between World War I’s Trenches
Born of the horrors of trench warfare, a ghoulish tale of scavengers and scofflaws took hold 100 years ago. By James Deutsch. (Sept. 8, 2014)
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The Ultimate Guide to Watching the [U.S.] Election Results
An hour-by-hour look at the key local races, and how the night will play out for Clinton and Trump. By Peter Keating.
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World War I in Photos: Technology
Industrialization brought massive changes to warfare during the Great War. Newly-invented killing machines begat novel defense mechanisms, which, in turn spurred the development of even deadlier technologies. Nearly every aspect of what we would consider modern warfare debuted on World War I battlefields. By Alan Taylor.
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Against Leaf Blowers
The scourge of autumn, annoyer of millions. Can anyone stop the seasonal siege of gas-powered landscaping equipment? By David Dudley.
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Good Bones
Maggie Smith
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Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain
“The ancient Greek Menander once said: ‘Woman is a pain that never goes away.’ He probably just meant women were trouble, but his words hold a more sinister suggestion: the possibility that being a woman requires being in pain, that pain is the unending glue and prerequisite of female consciousness.” By Leslie Jamison.
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Hospitals, ‘Hallucinations,’ Torture and Pain
There are two kinds of suffering: the patient wrestling with more than he or she can endure. And the family watching, unable to help and also at the mercy of the medical staff. By Pete Dexter, Jeff Nale.
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Tripping in the ICU
For those suffering the trauma of intensive care, the soothing swoosh of otherworldly ambient music can be a welcome gift. By Charles Fernyhough.
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Doll in Shadow
Alzheimer's destroyed my mother's memory, but she remembered the doll. By Maria Browning.
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Rime without reason: Did Coleridge foretell his own future in a poem?
Glimpsed through the lens of Guite’s biography, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” constitutes the “involucrum” of Coleridge’s existential chrysalis. By Kelly Grovier.
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Death from below in the world’s most bombed country
The US dropped 270 million bombs on Laos during the Vietnam war. More than 40 years later, the devices are still killing people. By Rosita Boland.
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Life after Armageddon: the deep psychological impact of the Second World War
Keith Lowe’s The Fear and the Freedom is an intimate portrayal of how human beings carry on when their world has changed for ever. By John Gray.
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How to Die
As a psychotherapist, Irvin Yalom has helped others grapple with their mortality. Now he is preparing for his own end. By Jordan Michael Smith.
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Elder Sign
Joseph Nanni
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What It’s Like to Learn You’re Going to Die
Palliative-care doctors explain the “existential slap” that many people face at the end. By Jennie Dear.
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The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus
Alex Landragin on tinnitus as a burden and an existential clarion call.
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