At 27, Verena Bahlsen entered the leadership of the family company that had produced biscuits for generations. Two years later, she was gone. The departure marked the end of an unusually public
Our chapter in the human evolutionary story is one of a globally connected population that has ballooned thanks to a suite of recent technologies. We frequently congratulate ourselves on these achievements, unique
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Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a widely reported yet poorly understood phenomenon. Though there is no agreed-upon definition of an NDE, it has been described as “profound psychological events with transcendental and mystical elements, typically
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Sherlock Holmes, the famous fictional detective, believed that his brother, Mycroft, could also have been a brilliant solver of crimes if he had not been so impossibly lazy. Mycroft was large and
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The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has issued urgent new guidance, emphasizing that climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are already undermining fundamental human rights and threatening
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Scientists have taken a major step toward a fertility breakthrough that could one day allow infertile women and gay men to have genetically related children. In a study reported by The Times
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In a city that might have hosted a rival to Cambridge 800 years ago, a small but ambitious institution is challenging the traditional model of UK higher education. The New Model Institute
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I first heard the word ‘depression’ when I was about sixteen. My mother took me to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, India, to be seen by
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Chances are you’ve benefited from a nonprofit—whether by listening to public radio, adopting a pet from a shelter, attending a community arts event, or witnessing their support through local food pantries. Nonprofits
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The Serengeti—whose name means “endless plains” in the Maasai language—is one of the most renowned natural landscapes in the world. Spanning northern Tanzania and extending into southwestern Kenya, this vast ecosystem is home to
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When Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico in 1519, he encountered cities, markets, schools, courts, astronomers, and rulers — institutions strikingly familiar to those he had left behind in Spain. Two civilizations, separated
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Despite the diversity of government and social structures, every country today faces social and political tensions tied to concentrated and unaccountable power in the hands of national elites. The modern sociological concept
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Artificial intelligence is no longer just drawing cats or writing emails—it’s now writing genomes. A team of researchers from Stanford University and the Arc Institute in Palo Alto, California, say they have
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In a candid interview with Crux, the first American pope, Leo XIV, has voiced deep concerns over the widening income gap between executives and ordinary workers, calling into question the values underpinning
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Globally, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to “business self-regulation with the aim of being socially accountable.” From a broader perspective, this definition includes improving working conditions, reducing carbon footprints, participating in Fairtrade,
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The sun blazed over Jerusalem that day, a relentless heat pressing down on the ancient stones, yet as we stepped into Shalva—the Israel Association for Children with
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