La folie bouscule les codes du monde rationnel. Lewis Carroll s’est ainsi inspiré des thés organisés dans les asiles victoriens du XIXᵉ siècle pour créer celui de son « pays des merveilles ».
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A new report from Sense About Science reveals the scale of politics before evidence.
What makes people decide to leave the gang, and how can you convince them to stay?
Madness allows us to challenge the stereotypes of the rational world.
“Love drugs” have their risks, but are also potentially liberating, so people must be free to make their own choices about what works best for them.
Giles Fraser thinks that ‘Brexit recycles the defiant spirit of the Reformation’. How wrong can he be?
There is no evidence that community treatment orders work, so why does the UK still use them?
Scientists have found that there are many physical and mental benefits to volunteering.
Understanding how the flu virus copies itself could open a way to killing it.
Voters see claim and counter claim about the economic effects of leaving the EU but the overwhelming consensus among economists is that Brexit will make Britons worse off.
Boris Johnson says so. But the reality about EU minimum wages and the effect on migration is more subtle.
The number of new Zika-related microcephaly cases in Brazil is falling. But it’s too early to relax.
Our bodies are teeming with petty bureaucrats and red tape – it’s the very fabric for life on Earth.
Those campaigning to leave are clinging onto the past for all the wrong reasons.
On dit les pieuvres intelligentes, au point de jouer savamment des tentacules pour s'échapper de l'aquarium. Cela veut-il dire qu'elles sont dotées de conscience, tout comme nous les humains ?
A newly registered trial aims to research reanimating brain dead people. But even if it works, it’s not clear who the new person would be.
It’s a daunting technical challenge. But the key question is whether such engineering is socially acceptable.
Accurately counting cheetah numbers is crucial to ensuring the survival of the species.
Dealing with fossil fuels means working out how to deal with shared resources. While economists might argue that we tend to selfishness, psychology offers another way.
Childhood asthma in low- and middle-income countries is on the rise and symptoms are often more severe. Contributory factors include living with anxiety and being exposed to community violence.
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Research Fellow in Population Health, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Science, University of Oxford
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DPhil Candidate, Neurodegenerative Disorders, University of Oxford
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Economist in AI and Work, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
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Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Cognitive Archaeology and Archaeoacoustics, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford
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Supernumerary Fellow, Archaeology, University of Oxford
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DPhil Candidate, Department of Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Oxford
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DPhil Student in Anthropology, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Natural History, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, University of Oxford