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Bright light increases honesty and leads people to perform ethical deeds
Sunday 21 July 2013
It also makes us more ethical and less selfish, researchers say
Oliver Wright: The dismissal Downing St was forced to dismiss
Monday 15 July 2013
Inside Whitehall: The Civil Service is a very, very big organisation and it needs someone with corporate expertise to run it
Tom Hodgkinson: The best thing to do after learning new information is to take a nap
Sunday 14 July 2013
Dr Johnson's favourite book was Robert Burton's bestselling 17th-century self-help guide The Anatomy of Melancholy. This exhaustive manual on madness and depression, first published in 1621, was so popular that, it was said, its publisher "got an estate by it". Johnson said it was the only book which would get him out of bed early.
Human head transplants a 'feasible enterprise' says Italian neurosurgeon Dr Sergio Canavero
Tuesday 02 July 2013
Doctor claims research on the complicated surgery could see results in just two years
Editorial: People and profit can get along
Sunday 23 June 2013
Ethical customers can put pressure on conventional firms to raise their sights'
Should we intervene? Our response to the Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson assault is shocking too
Monday 17 June 2013
Events like this compel us to consider the ethics of recording a dispute
Video games 'can make children more morally aware'
Friday 07 June 2013
New study shows how games can teach children to analyse their moral choices in life and consider the consequences
Woolwich attack: We have a duty to report these images, but editors face difficult ethical questions
Thursday 23 May 2013
Reporting on this sadistic murder allows us to see - and see through - its perpetrators
Book of a lifetime: Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, By Louis Armstrong
Friday 10 May 2013
My parents loved the blues and early jazz, and I grew up to the sounds of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Leadbelly and Fats Waller.
The God Argument, By AC Grayling
Friday 08 March 2013
Virtuous atheists may live well and do good – but can they give hope to the hopeless cases?
The collective of Juventus might dare to dream of Champions League glory
Thursday 07 March 2013
The Italian side eased to victory over Celtic to advance to the quarter-finals
Fifa criticised over investigations into 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids
Thursday 07 March 2013
Russia and Qatar will hold the two tournaments
“Is my friend a rapist?” asks South African journalist, McKaisar following allegations against Wa Mamatu
Monday 04 March 2013
The South African newspaper The Star has today published a compelling piece by Eusebius McKaiser which insightfully captures the complicated emotions experienced when a friend is accused of a sex crime.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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