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To complete the perilous project his mother never finished, a filmmaker documents Indigenous resistance in war-torn Colombia ...

How two amateur schools pulled a generation of thinkers from the workers and teachers of the 19th-century American Midwest ...

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Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ William Blake captures the suffering and oppression on the streets of 18th-century London ...

After years of insomnia, I threw off the effort to sleep and embraced the peculiar openness I found in the darkest hours ...

Sailors, exiles, merchants and philosophers: how the ancient Greeks played with language to express a seaborne imagination ...

is the president and William H Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. He works on the evolution of intelligence and stupidity on Earth. Whereas the first is ...

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Love is a daily act of devotion for two brothers – one mentally, the other physically disabled – in a shared apartment ...