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John Clark is Gregory F. Curtin Distinguished Professor in Humane Letters Loyola University, New Orleans and the Professions, Professor of Philosophy, and a member of the Environmental Studies faculty ...

On a train recently, I had the good fortune of sitting next to two who had just finished their GCSEs and were on their way to Milo’s party in Bath. Milo, I discovered, was having the party at his ...

Peter Atkins is former Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, and a Fellow of Lincoln College. His most recent books include On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of ...

Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters (John Murray) by Brian Klaas ...

Adults play on water slide set up in Bristol, May 2014. Credit: Alamy It’s late summer and the afternoon sun is beating off Shoreditch’s sheer glass facades and gum-littered pavements. My colleagues ...

Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think (Princeton University Press) by Helen De Cruz What is wonder? To try to answer the question requires you to perform the mental act that you are ...

Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...

Many of us suffer from the cognitive bias known as the “just world fallacy”. The sense that the world should be a fair place can easily slide into the belief that it is a fair place and that people ...