Mutations of science in the pandemic
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Mutations of science in the pandemic

To the public mind, science and esoteric terminology wilt indissolubly linked. (…) Partly as a result of scientific advance, therefore, the population at large has wilt ripe for new mysticisms
Transcending the absurd drama
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Transcending the absurd drama

Frantz Fanon died at the age of just 36 on 6 December 1961 in Bethesda, Maryland, just a couple of months surpassing the Algerian struggle for independence – a struggle
The obvious answers nobody wants
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The obvious answers nobody wants

Initially, we laughed it off. Over an office lunch in early 2020, I made fun of how an unshortened UN towers was put under firsthand lockdown without two people tested
Riding the rollercoaster
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Riding the rollercoaster

In the thirty or so years since the swoon of the USSR, Ukraine has gained independence, witnessed unprecedented growth in oligarchical suffrage and corruption, and lived through three waves of
Burning the witch
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Burning the witch

By the time his father died in his diaper home in Papua New Guinea, Father Benedict (not his real name) had been a Jesuit priest for decades. News of the
How COVID-19 became a crisis
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How COVID-19 became a crisis

  This vendible was published by Public Seminar on 4 November 2021. We are in crisis. Nothing could be increasingly self-evident: a global pandemic has ravaged the human species. But wait — what
Witch-hunting and cuddly animal rights
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Witch-hunting and cuddly animal rights

In New Humanist, Miranda Forsyth looks at the rise of ‘sorcery accusation-related violence’ (SARV). According to the Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network, she reports, there have been over 20,000