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Free will in the age of Surveillance Capitalism
(6 minute read) Can the Big Brother of technology really control our lives? asks Sam Savelli.
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A bitter pill to swallow: sex education must face the facts about contraception
(7 minute read) Louise Kirk argues that promotion of the contraceptive pill in much of contemporary sex education is based on outdated science.
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Court watching in the United States
(6 minute read) Kendra Mills explores a novel idea aimed at making America’s justice system fairer.
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Five reasons why drilling for gas in the UK is a good idea
(3 minute read) Joel Chacon challenges received wisdom and argues that a compromise is needed to build a truly sustainable future.
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Gender is more than a word
(5 minute read) Sam Hall points out the inadequacies - and indeed absurdities - of recent debates about what it is to be male or female.
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Spain’s fragile memory
(7 minute read) Maddy Fry finds modern Spain is still tip-toeing around the history of its bloody civil war.
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From Cuba with Love
(4 minute read) Audrey White discovers a new approach to agriculture in the Caribbean which could ‘heal’ the earth.
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One woman’s battle against domestic abuse
(4 minute read) Bridget O’Sullivan speaks to an unlikely heroine who used her own suffering to help others.
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The elderly cure us from our obsession with haste
(5 minute read) “The rhythms of old age are an indispensable resource for grasping the meaning of life”, says Pope Francis.
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Healing wounded hearts
(4 minute read) A better future is possible if we get sex into the right context, argue Karl Gustel Wärnberg and Edmund P Adamus.