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If you could wake up tomorrow morning with a brand-new skill, what would it be? For example, let’s say you could choose to master anything you wished - the violin, speaking Dutch, playing tennis? Which skill would it be? Having woken up with this new

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Antonia Case:  Antonia Case is Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director of Womankind, and Editorial Director of New Philosopher. She was awarded the 2016 AAP Media Professionals’ Award for excellence in the presentation of philosophy in the media. Her f

When Dutch Baroque artist Johannes Vermeer painted Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid in 1670–1671 from his house in Delft, the Netherlands, little did he know that 300 years later, Rose Dugdale, an English PhD graduate in economics, would cut the p

In the 1970s, young palaeontologists Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge had proposed a radical new idea of evolutionary change, called ‘punctuated equilibrium’. The essence of the theory was that, although the evolution of species advanced sluggishly, a sl

For much of European history, it was presumed that black swans did not exist, only white ones. A ‘black swan’ was an expression to describe an impossibility, because all swans - as far as Europeans were concerned, had white feathers. That was until D

Who do you envy? When we think about envy, or the people who arouse envy in us, it’s typically those we secretly admire. We want to be more like them, or have what they have, or do the same things that they do. But often admiration manifests as envy

Over a decade ago, author Daniel Coyle embarked on a journey in search of talent. Not just ordinary talent, but what he called ‘hotbeds’ of talent where people were learning to do extraordinary things quickly, be that playing soccer, or the violin, s

You’re no doubt familiar with the ‘to do’ list - a tool to keep you on track and create some structure in an otherwise chaotic life - but you may not be as familiar with the ‘break list’, which lists the breaks you hope to take and what activities yo

One morning in the early 1970s, a young Irish American from South Boston, who was studying philosophy at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, knocked on his teacher’s door. Philosopher Jane Roland Martin opened the door to the news that her stu