Topic description and stories

Why be human when you can be otherkin?

16 Jul 2016

As social beings, a sense of identity plays an important role in our relations – and in our own happiness. But identity doesn’t have to be narrowly...

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Biting the Doctor's Arm

'Everything, everywhere, ever’ – a new door opens on the history of humanity

24 May 2012

The history of humanity, from our earliest ancestors to today’s indigenous people spread across the globe, is being retold as a Cambridge University...

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Dalek

EX-TRA-PO-LATE! Moral philosophy and the Daleks

19 Apr 2011

They’ve had viewers cowering behind the sofa since ‘Doctor Who’ began – but what exactly is it that makes people so frightened of the Daleks? A new...

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