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If rebirth does actually happen, I will be reborn as an amoeba or a snail...

By narrowly defining slavery as limited to the U.S. South and the West Indies, ethical capitalists were able to argue that ‘nothing was a bad as white-owned plantation slavery, and therefore everything else could be described as ethical capitalism’...

In places such as Northern Kazakhstan where there are not that many deciduous trees, poplars quickly took over the environmental imagination of the locals...

What was once an isolated, stable society cloaked in semipermanent darkness has been thrust to the forefront of Arctic change by rapid warming and the interests that warming precipitates...

Atlantic news in the 1650s and its coverage of war and empire often underscored the impact of temporal and geographical distance...

Consider the Georgian terrace, now a widely admired model of traditional city-building. Its most important material was not those of which it was ostensibly made, but coal...

To evaluate states of affairs we use the concepts of good and bad, better and worse. To evaluate actions we use in addition the concepts of right and wrong...

Many people have claimed that the art of the claque was purely manual: what a paradox! Might as well say that the art of war is only the art of making sword-thrusts...

The evolution of mass raids from group raids happened tens of millions of years ago...

The Starship cabin is not ultimately intended for trips “under an hour,” but in fact for journeys of multiple months...

The ancient Greek world did not have an understanding of what is now understood by international law, but there were unwritten norms regarding warfare...

Especially for antiquarian and other independent booksellers, there exists a tension between sharing knowledge and running a business...

Just like the nuclear revolution, the possible ramifications of the quantum revolution reach far beyond the spheres of academia and may become instrumental in security and warfare...

In this era of intersecting crises, conservationists and others will be more and more motivated by a sense of multispecies solidarity...

Women writers have often used a style of domestic realism – reflecting the family homes in which they have laboured and nurtured. But in the 1970s and 80s they also took up science fiction, fantasy or historical fiction to explore gender relations on an epic scale...

Whether or not The Trespasser helped Woolf shape Night and Day, there may be glints of Lawrence’s novel in To the Lighthouse...

Sons and Lovers emerged with astonishing vividness, like an island from off which the mist has suddenly lifted...

The metaphor retains the paradoxical power to unveil the truth by veiling it...

Arguments against free will go back millennia, but the latest resurgence of scepticism has been driven by advances in neuroscience during the past few decades...