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Will humans keep getting smarter?
Is there a limit to human intelligence? Where does emotional intelligence fit in? And what’s the future of intelligence – will our brainpower be eclipsed by artificial...
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How love works
Some of the reason why we choose such unsuitable partners in love is that we aren’t trying to find someone who ideally suits us, we’re looking out for someone who feels familiar.
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What all languages have in common
Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in our native language, and we’re able to do so from an early age – almost as soon as we start to...
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Secrets of Mt Everest
Embark on this virtual reality experience with an international coalition of biologists, geologists, glaciologists, meteorologists, and geographers as they study the effects of climate change in...
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Time for a rethink?
Never waste a good crisis, or so Churchill said. Many believe the same about the current pandemic. Though it has involved tragedy, it can also bring renewal. Now, leading thinkers have begun...
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A point of view
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view,” wrote the great author George Eliot in her novel Middlemarch. Discover how point of view can transform a story,...
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Why black history matters to me
Students talk about how black history changed them: “It has the power to inspire those of us who cannot aspire. We need to know that there’s more to us than the chains that hold our people...
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Pioneers of climate change
Eunice Foote, Guy Stewart Callendar, and Charles Keeling were three key figures in the history of climate change science. Not all of them got the recognition they deserved at the time.
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The carbon cycle
Until a few hundred years ago there was a perfect balance of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. Human activity has disrupted that balance. What can be done to restore it?
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Who’s to blame for the climate crisis?
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have released over 1.5 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the Earth’s atmosphere. And emissions keep rising – when they need to get down to...
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Learning to be angry
These days, it can seem as though we all need to learn to be less angry. The truth is more complex. A sizeable number of us suffer from shyness about expressing our real needs and our true...
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How to measure intelligence
Does IQ really measure how smart you are? Is it possible to accurately assess intelligence through a test? And does who is setting the test, and why, make a difference?
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Why we need to feel heard
We take so little time to listen to one another and to show that we have absorbed what people have told us. As a result, everyone gets increasingly angry and, deep inside, sad.
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A watershed moment for LGBT rights
The US’s top court has ruled that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender are breaking the country’s civil rights laws. The implications will be felt all over the world.
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Remember how to shop?
Shopping seems a world away now. But from today, all non-essential shops are allowed to reopen in England. BBC business correspondent Szu Ping Chan has visited a clothes store in London to see...