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Happy Diwali 2023: Quotes by authors on discovering your inner light

The much-awaited Hindu festival, Diwali, also called the festival of lights, is here! The auspicious festival is a reminder of good winning over evil or light prevailing over darkness. This year, Diwali is being celebrated on November 12, 2023. The five-day festival began with Dhanteras on November 10 and will…

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'Bun in the oven' is an ancient pregnancy metaphor. This historian says it has to go

In a new book, Policing Pregnant Bodies, author Kathleen Crowther grapples with how very old ideas – some of them misogynistic – shape how we think about pregnancy and abortion today.

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What makes a good political leader – and how can we tell before voting?

For many people, voting is not just a right, it’s an act of civic duty. Even more than that, some voters base their decisions on what they believe best serves society as a whole, not what might personally advantage them.

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Passing on great wealth to our children spells the end of society. Just ask Aristotle

If, as speculated, the PM scraps inheritance tax, the stench of money will just grow stronger

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 movie review: the party’s over with this shoddy threequel

The first film proved box office gold but the fizz has gone flat and it’s now time to bury the franchise

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A sea urchin: they are method actors performing The Waste Land

Their five jaws are arranged in a shape Aristotle described as a ‘lantern’ but should have called a ‘horrible beak’

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What would Aristotle think about the current state of politics?

In recent years, political debate has degenerated into ever more aggressive partisan mudslinging and character assassination, with no room for a reasoned and non-rancorous discussion of competing alternatives in assessing the policy issues of the day.

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What makes a good life? Existentialists believed we should embrace freedom and authenticity

How do we live good, fulfilling lives?

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Alternative dispute resolution is essential along with adjudicatory mechanism, says judge

Need for ADR to reduce pendency of cases in Indian courts: Judge of High Court of Karnataka, Dharwad, Vijaykumar Patil inaugurated KLE Law Academy's First National Level Negotiation Competition. 30 colleges from across India participating. ADR an important tool to resolve disputes, but not only solution. Students advised to remember…

The Hindu

The big idea: Will AI make us stupid?

There may be an unexpected upside to machines taking on more of our mental tasks

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'Rhetoric' doesn't need to be such an ugly word – it has a lot to teach echo-chambered America

Early on in my writing courses, I ask students to define their sense of rhetoric. Responses range from “persuasion” to “manipulation,” but they tend to share a negative connotation. Little wonder: In America today, the word is often used to dismiss a political opponent. Whereas a Democrat may find a…

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Three lessons from Aristotle on friendship

While most love songs are inspired by the joys and heartaches of romantic relationships, love between friends can be just as intense and complicated. Many people struggle to make and maintain friendships, and a falling-out with a close friend can be as painful as a breakup with a partner.

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Why we’ll keep finding meaning in the 'Oedipus Rex' plague drama far beyond COVID-19

Now that the World Health Organization has said COVID-19 “no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern” but is instead “an ongoing health issue,” how will theatre makers and audiences read plague- and pandemic-themed plays?

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Fostering psychological safety in the workplace: 4 practical, real-life tips based on science

Safety and Health Week is May 1 to 6. It offers us a chance to highlight and discuss safety, health and harm prevention in the workplace.

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What is essentialism? And how does it shape attitudes to transgender people and sexual diversity?

Recent debates around transgender people and sexual diversity have been marked by essentialism, a profoundly conservative mindset with deep links to religious and metaphysical dogmatism. It is a stance through which conservative thinkers seek certainty in a world of change and fluidity.

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Rap and drill music give voice to the pain of life in a world of violence, and YouTube is the new amphitheatre

Music helps teenagers process the emotion of traumatic, stressful lives, says writer and youth worker Ciaran Thapar

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Racist and sexist depictions of human evolution still permeate science, education and popular culture today

Systemic racism and sexism have permeated civilization since the rise of agriculture, when people started living in one place for a long time. Early Western scientists, such as Aristotle in ancient Greece, were indoctrinated with the ethnocentric and misogynistic narratives that permeated their society. More than 2,000 years after Aristotle’s…

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Ethernet co-inventor finally bags a Turing Award, half a century later

Dubbing their invention the "Ether Network", Bob Metcalf and co. gave real substance to the long-tailed metaphysical concept of the ether.

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Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us by Keggie Carew review – the terrible price of people power

This heartfelt study of humanity’s centuries-long contempt for other life forms is a vital reminder of the damage we have wreaked

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Chasing happiness

Belt out Boney M.'s version of the Happy Song, do Snoopy's happy dance, spray Clinique Happy Perfume, or enjoy anything else elating.

The New Daily

ChatGPT could be an effective and affordable tutor

ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot with advanced conversational abilities, may have the capability to become such a tutor

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ChatGPT could be an effective and affordable tutor

Imagine a private tutor that never gets tired, has access to massive amounts of data and is free for everyone. In 1966, Stanford philosophy professor Patrick Suppes did just that when he made this prediction: One day, computer technology would evolve so that “millions of schoolchildren” would have access to…

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Think yourself better: 10 rules of philosophy to live by

From Aristotle to Iris Murdoch: what the greatest minds of the past 2,500 years have to tell us about the good life

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Long before Silicon Valley, scholars in ancient Iraq created an intellectual hub that revolutionised science

Time and again, collaboration has proven to be a key driver of scientific and technological innovation. So it follows that some of the greatest advances have come from intellectual hubs set up for this very purpose.

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Editorial: The only reply Ravens’ star quarterback Lamar Jackson should ever post on Twitter: ‘Have a nice day!’

Aristotle once observed that the only surefire way to avoid criticism is to do nothing, say nothing and be nothing. Or something like that — we weren’t there. But at least this much is certain about the Ancient Greek philosopher who had a profound impact on Western learning: He had…

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