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w hether or not we have free will is a question philosophers have been debating for millennia. In the early 1980s, there was a brief moment when it appeared the debate may finally have been settled. T

Picture the scene: you’re about to get up on stage to give a presentation or performance. Something feels off – you look down, and realise your shirt is missing; in fact, you have no clothes on at all

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The term déjà vu was coined by the French philosopher and parapsychologist Émile Boirac in 1876 and translates, literally, as 'already seen'. It’s that eerie, uncanny feeling you get when you sense th

The first thing to remind ourselves is that our view of the past is definitely shaped. The way that we understand history is translated, constructed, created for us in multiple ways – the majority of