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Infused with humour and nostalgia, a one-man show confronts the communal trauma of his parish in working-class Philadelphia ...

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Fear has typically been understood as a forward-looking emotion. In his Rhetoric, Aristotle defined it as that negative feeling (‘a disturbance’) that is due to ‘a mental picture of some destructive ...

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Does society benefit more from freedom or control? A philosopher seeks answers from the father of radical behaviourism ...

‘I love the sparkle,’ I said in passing to a woman wearing a gold-sequin-bedecked abaya as she was leaving the restrooms at Mall of America. A few minutes later (it was a very long line), another ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...