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What's the Point Of Protests?
Maybe Not What We Think It Is
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The Standing Ovation Theory of Everything
Why Our Choices Are Never Ours Alone
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27 Takes On What It Means To Be a Serious Person
Plus a rattle bag of goodies
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The Sunak Question
Why Has the Tory Party's Great Hope Been So Bad At the Job?
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Why Does Being Left-Wing Make You Unhappy?
The Ideological Well-Being Gap
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How Silicon Valley Hacked the Science of Human Behaviour
Revisiting My 2016 Piece on The Phones
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Can You Imitate a Genius?
What the new Amy Winehouse film tells us about singing, talent, and AI
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Why London's Famous Penguin Pool Has No Penguins In It
A Tale From My Trip To The Zoo
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The Ruffian
Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.
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