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Being There: Ageing is Not a Problem to be Solved

21 mins | Nov 15, 2018

Wilfred M. McClay, writing in The Hedgehog Review, argues that ageing is not a problem to be solved, but rather a meaning to be lived out.

Computer scientists struggle to build robots who get the joke

5 min

Send in the clowns: how comedy conquered politics

17 min

Justin Trudeau's blackface and the folly of dressing up

5 min

'I’m going to where people are’: the viral priest using TikTok to start a church

6 min

ClickHole started as a meat joke — can it avoid being offal?

30 min

Five-month-old babies know what’s funny

10 min