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In Shanghai, tens of thousands of homes were attacked, and many of their terrified residents were beaten to death or committed s ...
approval of “Persons in power taking the capitalist road”? This description was a coded way of identifying the culprits as Liu S ...
and destroying the artefacts inside. They renamed China’s streets, dispensing with ‘feudal’ names; they attacked and shamed peop ...
cities ‘down to the countryside’. For most of them, education had come to a halt in the heady summer of 1966. Though those days ...
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GOOD ON THE LEFT-HAND PAGES: A growing body of evidence shows it’s physically healthy to be a do-gooder. Rita Carter dons her ha ...
EVIL All through our childhoods, it’s drummed into us that we need to be good: kind, considerate, respectful of others, and so o ...
In his 1965 novel The Tin Men, British writer Michael Frayn describes an attempt to develop an altruistic robot. The first proto ...
The social brain hypothesis is a theory about how we ended up with such powerful brains. It states that humans evolved in close- ...
metaphorically chucking themselves overboard. Yet according to a slew of scientific studies, the explanation for the apparent pr ...
don’t, so you don’t stand out (normative social influence), or you’ll become genuinely convinced that it’s correct, because so m ...
RITA CARTER IS A SCIENCE LECTURER, BROADCASTER AND WRITER WHO SPECIALISES IN THE HUMAN BRAIN to other volunteers, or withhold it ...
DEAN BURNETT IS A DOCTOR OF NEUROSCIENCE, PSYCHIATRY TUTOR, COMEDIAN AND WRITER. HIS DEBUT BOOK, THE IDIOT BRAIN, IS AVAILABLE N ...
FLOODS & FEUDS PHOTOS BY NICK GARBUTT Brazil’s Pantanal has one of the world’s largest jaguar populations – and some of the ...
A male jaguar wades through the shallows of a backwater of the Cuiabá River in the northern Pantanal. Jaguars are very confident ...
he late-afternoon sun baked the parched pastures and dirt roads of Fazenda São Bento, a working cattle ranch and our research ba ...
melanistic, individuals are rare). Its name is derived from the native Tupi–Guaraní word yaguará, meaning ‘beast that kills its ...
A male stalks along the bank of the Cuiabá River. There may be fewer than 100,000 jaguars left in the wild Most dominant males i ...
The Pantanal hosts a wealth of other fascinating wildlife, including these toco toucans flying across the Piquiri River at dawn ...
near-maddening quantities. Elza Silva Costa, a long- time caretaker of a remote homestead in the western Pantanal, regaled me wi ...
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