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From Buddha to Seneca: Finding peace through stoicism
One of Buddhism’s key insights is that much of the suffering in the world comes from people not seeing reality as it really is.
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Sep 183 min read


Soil conservation farming and climate change
Ecologists point the finger at agriculture for its environmental impact, but soil conservation farming could have a massive role to play.
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Sep 183 min read


The evolution of gender-inclusive language in French
The notion that a group of 99 women and 1 man should be referred to as “ils” never sat well with me.
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Sep 184 min read


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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Sep 182 min read


Troublesome Words #2.1: Permettre
As translators and language learners know, some verbs don’t translate cleanly from one language to another. One of the trickier culprits in French is permettre — a word that’s everywhere in French but doesn’t always map neatly onto English equivalents.
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Sep 182 min read


Hydrogen and the Energy Transition
When former Minister of the Ecological Transition Nicolas Hulot presented his hydrogen roll-out plan for the energy transition on 1 June...
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Jan 28, 20223 min read
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