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81. The Story My Sister Told Me

How one childhood story helped change the course of many lives.

Matthew Syed challenges assumptions about male desire to have a baby.

Matthew Syed considers whether miracles can be compatible with scientific thinking.

Sideways returns with eight new stories of seeing the world differently.

What’s the real appeal of secret societies? Mystery, belonging or something else entirely?

Why does a childless woman with cats cause such cultural panic? Matthew Syed investigates.

Matthew Syed asks if slow-motion experiences suggest the way we think of time is illusory.

What does it mean to own your body - and is that even the right question to ask?

Matthew Syed explores our extraordinary capacity to invent new systems of communication.

Matthew Syed explores the case for radically non-violent solutions to conflict.