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Common sense isn't as helpful as you'd like, and neither is the truth

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We covet common sense, especially at those times where the expertise of the academic world can seem so distant from our daily concerns. But the spirit of academic enquiry has something that common sense doesn’t and you don’t need to be an academic to have it too.
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Why being sad isn't always a bad thing

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A great deal is made about depression these days. Depression is on the rise. Suicide is on the rise. Anxiety is on the rise. It’s alarming, and it often dominates the headlines. Most egregious is the claim that ‘perhaps young people these days are too fragile’. It’s not just a deflection of responsibility. What this new media narrative misses is that it’s OK to be sad sometimes. In fact, some would say that being sad can actually be a good thing.
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Animals show glimpses of cognitive abilities that challenge our traditional notions of higher-order thinking, making us question what truly characterises sophisticated thought and what it means to be clever.

Honey-bees are smarter than they should be

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Every now and then, the tiniest creatures show glimpses of the highest-orders of cognitive ability. Plenty of animals do very clever stuff they really shouldn’t be able to do, given the way we currently conceptualise cognition. This doesn’t just raise questions about how they do it, but also what really makes humans different.
Animals show glimpses of cognitive abilities that challenge our traditional notions of higher-order thinking, making us question what truly characterises sophisticated thought and what it means to be clever.
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On attraction and love

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Much is written on the subject of attractiveness. It has become synonymous with beauty. Attractive celebrities, attractive influencers, attractive art. And through this myopic lens, attraction becomes something ugly. Something that people have or do not have. Something to be jealous of. Something to be torn down. But it doesn’t have to be. It can actually be something very beautiful indeed.
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The false promise of a return to nature

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The movie Captain Fantastic portrays a sort of scenario I think many of us have entertained at one time or another. Pack a knife, some food, and a bag full of books and gap it into the wilderness. Live off the land, and indulge our atavistic tendencies – a simpler, more fulfilling life. Probably too simple…
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