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Imagine two friends, Elena and Leo, are heading to a party. Leo asks Elena whether Sophie is already there. Elena answers: ‘Yes, she is at the party,’ because Sophie had told her earlier that she’d be ...

Last month, while clearing a drawer, I found a printout of André Breton’s ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’ (1924). The essay launched a movement that revolutionised art through beautiful, bizarre hybrids of ...

The Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969 was an extraordinary scientific achievement. It was also an extraordinary epistemological achievement. Not only did a man walk on the Moon but, almost ...

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In 392 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I outlawed one of the oldest and most well-established mystery cults in the Greek-speaking world, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had taken place for more than ...

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, US ...

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