Innovation · Education · Resilience
The Part You Thought Was Fixed
What paper centrifuges, rubble, wire toys and a school textbook reveal about ingenuity, agency and the parts of a problem we mistake for fixed.
Proof of Hope
The woman who made the government listen
Promise Mabilo went to eMalahleni looking for opportunity. What she learned there helped turn community organising into a landmark South African clean-air judgment.
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Proof of Hope
Carefully researched stories of kindness, conservation, discovery and resilience.
Animals · Conservation · Environment
The women who decided the forest was theirs to defend
Around Nigeria's Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, women are changing who gets to be a conservationist.
Education · Human Rights · People
The exam designed by the students who needed it
How a question raised by refugee teenagers in a Beirut camp became a qualification designed for interrupted lives.
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Ordinary Astonishment
Science, history and the gaps between what we assumed and what is actually true.
Psychology · Perception
The Door You Thought You Knew
On déjà vu, jamais vu, and the curious ways familiarity shapes what we think we know.
Psychology · Perception
The Moment You Stop Noticing
What happens when the mind learns to tune out the world around it, from the hum of a refrigerator to suffering, kindness and the things familiarity teaches us not to see.
Neuroscience · Perception
The World Your Brain Gives You
You never experience the machinery that constructs reality. You experience its conclusion.
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