Library
A curated set of reading and video resources for those who want to delve deeper into each event
Are our minds wild enough?
- The tradeoffs of savanna restoration in a tree crazed world
- The wilderness fetish is bad for people and for the planet
- How one modest shrub entrapped humans in its service
- Nature is out of balance but its still worth saving
- Video: How our developing understanding of plants changed our knowledge of life itself
- Video: The grassroots project that’s restoring an endangered Hawaiian ecosystem
Feminist futures
- Feminists never bought the idea of a mind set free from its body
- We need the toolkit of utopian thinking now more than ever
- What Frankenstein’s creature can really tell us about AI
- Why is the language of transhumanists and religion so similar
- Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo
- The future of humanism from Toni Morrison to Nick Bostrom
Listening to the language of the brain
- Brain scans look stunning but what do they actually mean?
- Is deep brain stimulation for better health worth the risk?
- It takes neuroscience and poetry to map the tributaries of touch
- Mapping the brain’s connective structure could unlock immortality
- How might telepathy actually work outside the realm of sci-fi?
- Video: Can a tiny slice of mouse brain help us understand the complex human mind?
How to be long-minded
- The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
- To imagine our own extinction is to be able to answer for it
- Trees of deep time are a portal to the past and the future
- Feeling overwhelmed in the present? Try mental time travel
- Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo
- Deep time’s uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces
- Video: From sky charts to atomic clocks, time is a mysterious story that humans keep inventing
Friends, foes and family
- How families and feelings built human culture
- Why childhood and old age are key to our human capacities
- How trance states forged human society through transcendence
- Social darwinism is back but this time its a good thing
- There really is no natural or right way to be a parent
- Video: Evolution is not only about competition: the cellular origins of a very big idea
Can we imagine power without violence?
- Writing and righting: Literature in the age of human rights
- Political violence is not just for poor countries anymore
- For Arendt, hope in dark times is no match for action
- Do human beings have an instinct for waging war
- Video: ‘What’s essential is, I must understand’: a rare candid interview with Hannah Arendt
- Video: Ten million people around the world are stateless. Is citizenship a human right?
