Can science prove that there is an existence beyond death? The question has traditionally belonged to religion and philosophy, but a growing group of doctors, neuroscientists, physicists and other researchers are examining
Editor’s Note: The following interview was originally published in The Sunday Island, a Colombo-based weekly newspaper. What does it mean to claim that psychoanalysis is inherently feminist? How can the unconscious, that
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I did not attend the recent Dalada exposition, but I passed through Kandy during those days and witnessed the long lines – thousands of pilgrims, most of them elderly, queued in fervent
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In a groundbreaking development reported by Nature, scientists have created a broad-spectrum antivenom using antibodies derived from a man who has survived hundreds of venomous snake bites. The new treatment, which also
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The future of medicine could be on the verge of a paradigm shift with the potential development of ethically sourced “spare” human bodies, known as “bodyoids.” These lab-grown human structures, designed without
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by Durga George Raveling’s What You’re Made For is neither a memoir nor a simple self-help manual. It is a philosophical challenge wrapped in personal stories, a book that forces the reader
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by Durga Daniel Levitin’s The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload masquerades as a beacon of clarity in an era drowning in data. With an authoritative tone draped
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by Satchi Adam Grant’s Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World is a book that purports to unravel the mystique of innovation, creativity, and risk-taking. With an academic’s meticulousness and a populist’s flair
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by Eric Daniel Levitin’s A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics masquerades as a beacon of enlightenment, purportedly equipping its readers with the tools to dismantle misinformation and navigate the deluge of
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So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts Of accidental judgments Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall’n on th’ inventors’
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Following excerpts adapted from the author’s book, The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat, published by Macmillan Publishers Stout but not quite obese, and boasting a prominent belly, Yutala
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