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Where is everyone?: The latest from our search for alien life, an Earth-like planet

India, Oct. 10 -- There's a space-age joke about a man who has lost the keys to his car. He keeps looking beneath the nearest lamppost. Asked why, he replies: "It's where the light is." For millenni... Read More


Where is everyone?: The latest from our search for life beyond our planet

India, Oct. 10 -- There's a space-age joke about a man who has lost the keys to his car. He keeps looking beneath the nearest lamppost. Asked why, he replies: "It's where the light is." For millenni... Read More


Class, gender, race: The politics of self-care

India, Oct. 5 -- It was Socrates who essentially said: Put your own mask on first. A 4th-century-BCE book by his pupil, Plato, describes how two Athenian fathers sought Socrates out, looking for advic... Read More


Dark wellness: Fiction traces grim extremes

India, Oct. 5 -- First there was #ThatGirl, with her eucalyptus-scented mists, Stanley cup full of green juice and massages that doubled as workouts. The aesthetic went viral on social media in 2021 a... Read More


Dark wellness: A new genre of fiction traces grim extremes of self-care

India, Oct. 3 -- First there was #ThatGirl, with her eucalyptus-scented mists, Stanley cup full of green juice and massages that doubled as workouts. The aesthetic went viral on social media in 2021 a... Read More


Class, gender, race: The politics of self-care

India, Oct. 3 -- It was Socrates who essentially said: Put your own mask on first. "Epimeleia heautou" or "care of the self" was central to his discourses on ways to tackle life's challenges, includi... Read More


We need a safe word

India, Sept. 14 -- It might interest you to know that the emoji depicting a cluster of kidney beans, among children under 16, stands for "self-identified incel". "Bop" can mean a girl is promiscuous. ... Read More


Safe words: Meet the teenager researching Gen Alpha's fast-changing slang, with an eye on online safety

India, Sept. 12 -- It might interest you to know that the emoji depicting a cluster of kidney beans, among children under 16, stands for "self-identified incel". Calling a girl a "bop" can mean she is... Read More


Safe words: Meet the teenager researching Gen Alpha slang, with an eye on online safety

India, Sept. 12 -- It might interest you to know that the emoji depicting a cluster of kidney beans, among children under 16, stands for "self-identified incel". Calling a girl a "bop" can mean she is... Read More