Weekly Digest #168

Something for the weekend:

1. Intersectionality, Decoloniality, Indigenous Localism: A Critique

2. ‘Intelligence’ before ‘intelligence tests’: Alfred Binet’s experiments on his daughters, 1890–1903

3. ‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened

4. European research Priorities for Osteopathic Care (PROCare): a sequential exploratory investigation and survey

5. ‘Phenomenology’ is Blue: The Synaesthetic Dynamics of Being-in-the-World

6. ‘Beckert calls his book an “actor-centred history” about a phenomenon “made by people”, but it is ultimately a kind of horror story about a monster that eats men’ Link

7. Defining Success in American Fitness: Physical Culture in Early Twentieth–Century America

8. Rock Steady Boxing benefits both individuals and the community by empowering countless individuals battling Parkinson’s disease Link

9. The impossible patient

10. The Year in Biology (2025) and a year in AI consciousness

11. The Depth of the Body

12. Philosophical and Scientific Reflections on Pain

13. Haptic nostalgia

14. ‘Of course I’m scared’: people confront their final days – in pictures

15. ‘It Serves More Than One Purpose’: Pastoral power and the instrumentality of caring leadership