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Remembrance of Things Past: Proust’s Madeleine
Proust was the first to describe how taste and memory intertwine. Pixar’s Ratatouille brought that revelation to life for a new generation.
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9 sept. 20252 min de lecture


Raising Bilingual Children
Raising bilingual children can be challenging, but it is also rewarding — for parents and children alike.
edentraduction
20 août 20247 min de lecture


Why is the US Threatening to Ban TikTok?
Last week, Joe Biden signed a bill that could eventually lead to TikTok being banned on US soil.
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1 mai 20246 min de lecture


On Pessimism, Partisanship and Polarisation
Successive political, social, and health crises in western democracies – indeed in most of the world now – mean that staying abreast of current affairs can be a painfully depressing exercise. The ambient pessimism is so pervasive that our society’s problems can seem intractable, but this fatalism can become a self-fulfilling prophecy that puts democracy itself at risk. Rampant political partisanship feeds into this negativity, because virtually any pronouncement from any poli
edentraduction
3 janv. 20239 min de lecture


The Political Race to the Bottom of the Brainstem
Tristan Harris, a former Google engineer who now advocates for ethical social media algorithms, coined the term “race to the bottom of...
edentraduction
28 févr. 20224 min de lecture


How to Choose the Right Life Philosophy (Hint: You can’t)
A personal look at my journey to stoicism and how I didn’t so much choose it but was inevitably drawn to it. I didn’t know my maternal grandfather very well. I grew up in a different country, and he passed away when I was relatively young, so it is always interesting to learn more about him. As such, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he had an interest in stoic philosophy. I only recently discovered the philosophy of stoicism – which seeks to minimise suffering by help
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23 mars 20215 min de lecture


Having honest conversations
Most of our decisions and opinions are not the consequence of mature reflection and a cool cost-benefit analysis.
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3 sept. 20203 min de lecture
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