Editorial Gananath Obeyesekere, a man larger than life, passed away today. His death marks the end of an intellectual force that reshaped the very foundations of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the critique of
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In a March 2026 paper published in the journal Science Advances, which focused on variability in governance along the autocratic-democratic axis, my coauthors and I found that one of the strongest associations for the 40
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In a wide-ranging interview published by El País, Ana Conseglieri, a leading figure in Spanish neuropsychiatry and president of the Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría (AEN), sets out a critical reading of psychiatry’s
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The theme for an exhibition that opened on June 4, 2026, at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Science (Mülkiye), World’s First City Plan/Map, as part of my Arkeopolitics initiative, was met with reservations by a
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In Brazil, a surname shared by nearly one in every six citizens has become the focus of a broader conversation about identity, heritage, and social change. Silva, the most common family name
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All over the world , the retirement age for employees in government departments and in large and medium scale organized sector have been fixed as 60 in most cases. In India ,
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Inequality and Urbanism Today’s cities are hotbeds of inequality. Urban real estate is one of the most expensive kinds of land in the world. It attracts billionaires looking to store their wealth
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At four in the morning, Mecca does not sleep. In the blue stillness before dawn, a fisherman from the Indonesian archipelago and a surgeon from London move through the same narrow lane.
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For decades, neuroscience has operated under one dominant metaphor: the brain as a computer. Researchers have compared neurons to circuits, cognition to software, and consciousness to information processing. But a growing movement
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The ancient figure of the Antichrist has returned to public debate through an unlikely messenger: billionaire investor Peter Thiel. In speeches delivered from San Francisco to Rome, the tech entrepreneur and influential
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