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According to Leibniz: ‘we can find no true or existent fact … without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not ...

When the bomb exploded, I was at a café outside Oslo reading on my phone. It was a gloomy Friday afternoon, 22 July 2011, 3:25pm. The news was filled with reports that Norway’s high-rise government ...

Directed by the Afghan-born Canadian filmmaker Salar Pashtoonyar, Hills and Mountains recalls how the Soviet invasion of ...

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For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric ...

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999?

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