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Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad vision—of isolated writers, cut off from peers or mentors.

Since the WordPress archives are far from the easiest thing to navigate and it can be difficult to find what you are looking for even though it is, I am putting together a couple of ‘index&#8…

Excessive sitting isn't good for a person's physical or mental health, but there's a type of sedentary activity that may not shrink our brains or cost our cognition to the same extent.

In 2000, Douglas Adams made an interesting observation that I keep returning to. A user on Slashdot named “FascDot Killed My Pr” had asked the following question (where HGttG = Hitchhiker’s Guide to t...

I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me – now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive

The silence from the group of accounts, which began on Thursday, comes amid widespread protests against the leadership of the Islamic Republic.

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?

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It's not because of shorter sentences.

The Green Party leader's recent arguments sound a lot like Modern Monetary Theory

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The proportion of UK families with one child has grown since the turn of the century - with knock-on effects for society

The government's official forecaster inadvertently published a crucial Budget document early.

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A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

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