Touchy Feely: How Human Senses Compare with those of other Life-Forms
Ashley Ward, Sensational: A new story of our senses | Book Review By Anna Katharina Schaffner Science | Book Review | TLS Did you know:...
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Anna K. Schaffner
I write blogs, journalism, fiction, non-fiction and academic texts. My work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Psychology Today, Positive Psychology, Aeon, Psyche, Die Sueddeutsche, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and in other places.
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- Feb 23
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Gaining Fluency: What it Means to be Human in a Gendered, Sexist, Classist World
Blutbuch by Kim de l'Horizon | Book Review By Anna Katharina Schaffner Literature | Book Review | TLS Kim de l’Horizon’s debut novel,...
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- Jan 13
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World Weary
Mental Fatigue and Physical Exhaustion in History By Anna Katharina Schaffner Social & Cultural Studies | Book Review | TLS When you...
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- Apr 28, 2022
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The Pursuit of Gender Justice
Two contrasting views of modern masculinity By Anna Katharina Schaffner Social Studies | Book Review | TLS Men have lower life...
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- Mar 4, 2022
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Failing on All Fronts
An emotional reckoning on holiday in Lanzarote By Anna Katharina Schaffner European literature | Book Review | TLS “Man mastering...
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- Mar 4, 2022
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Citizens of a Happy Moment
Love and idealism in the last days of the GDR By Anna Katharina Schaffner European literature | Book Review | TLS I was eleven when the...
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- Nov 2, 2021
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Can it be that it was so simple then?
A guide to the mindset of our evolutionary past Anna Katharina Schaffner | Book Review | TLS Most philosophers approach the question of...
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- Mar 9, 2021
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A Heroine in a Murky World
Anne Beaumanoir and the Ethics of Resistance European literature | Book Review A German writer and translator who lives in Paris, Anne...
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- Sep 21, 2020
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The Twee Tribe
Consider the following phenomena: owl-shaped cushions, bird-print textiles and kitten ephemera. French horns, ukuleles and accordions.
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- Aug 3, 2020
- 8 min
Rock and Rolls
We are, it seems, pre-determined to love the taste of all things sweet. Evolutionary biologists argue that survival once depended on our ...
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- May 29, 2019
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Weighty Matters
In recent decades, the British population has grown in girth. The NHS England obesity report for 2017 found that 58 per cent of women and 68
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- Jul 26, 2018
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Whatever works?
Julia Buckley and Nick Duerden, two journalists suffering from chronic pain and chronic fatigue respectively, have written thought-provoking
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- Mar 15, 2018
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Science to justice
Science to justice
German sexual progress before the First World War
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- Mar 8, 2018
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Fixated on the Ficus
Fixated on the ficus
A plant symbolizing hope in tragic times
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- Feb 15, 2018
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To know one’s mind
The decision of whether or not to have a baby can be agonizing for some women, loaded as it may be with questions about maternal competencie
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- Nov 30, 2017
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People of the books
Because the question of good and evil has rarely been as unambiguous as it was in the case of the Nazis and their victims...
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- Sep 7, 2017
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Lose yourself
Today, we must consider the extent to which the internet and the various electronic devices and apps on which we rely are altering not just
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- Jul 27, 2017
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Animal spirits
What do we mean when we talk about energy? A ubiquitous concept in scientific, psycho-medical, philosophical and popular debates, and the pr
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- Jul 6, 2017
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In a dark forest made of books
ust as the selection and arrangement of words can provide insight into our psyches, so can that of the books in our libraries. Both public a
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- May 18, 2017
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The red-light cosmos
Then there is the nightclub owner Hans Pieczek, who dreams big, risking his life in the diamond trade. Other leading characters include an a
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