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Understanding the origins of the 15-Minute City panic takes just 30 minutes

15-Minute Cities, where amenities are within easy reach of your home, are nothing new. Yet they became the bête noire of conspiracy theorists

Decades on, we still haven’t fully learned the right lessons from the Satanic Panic

Drawing on her work as journalist at the time, Rosie Waterhouse's "Satanic Panic - A Modern Myth" details the creation of the notorious moral panic

The supernormal confronts the supernatural in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s prophetic new series

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novels The Morning Star and The Wolves of Eternity offer a cautionary tale about Silicon Valley’s search for immortality

Panpsychism revived, in James Bridle’s “Ways of Being”

"Ways of Being" argues that intelligence isn't a purely human phenomenon, but in doing so strays into a quasi-mysticism to explain the material

Russell Crowe’s new film ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ tries to depict priests as superheroes

Funded by a Catholic religious order, 'The Pope's Exorcist', starring Russell Crowe, feels like a mix of Harry Potter and Dracula

A Very British Cult: the BBC sheds light on life coaching and The Lighthouse International

The BBC podcast A Very British Cult is a gripping exploration of The Lighthouse's life coaching, and the true stories of ex-members who got out

The Tao of Magical Thinking: pseudoscience in Jeremy Lent’s ‘The Web of Meaning’

In The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent favours convenient ideas over accurate, and in doing so repeatedly presents speculative and even disproven theories as facts

More wishful thinking than medical reality: “Placebos” by Kathryn T. Hall

The 'powerful placebo' is a seductive myth that Kathryn T. Hall's "Placebos" can't resist, even though her grand claims clearly misinterpret what the best available evidence says
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