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Ten more takeaways from Shaun Johnson’s deep dive into death, memory, and meaning

In Part 2 we head to rural Mexico, ancient cosmologies, dug-up ancestors, and some uncomfortable truths about how badly modern societies handle death.

The Day of the Dead is often reduced to sugar skulls, face paint, and Instagram parades. But as Shaun Johnson’s talk showed, it’s something far richer, stranger, and older — a living tradition shaped by ritual, rebellion, remembrance, and a bit of chaos.

Here are ten key takeaways from the November talk in case you missed it!

Professor of Psychology Chris Roe gave a fascinating talk on parapsychology at the Leicester Lodge. It was a thoughtful, funny, occasionally unsettling exploration of why people have psychic-type experiences, and how psychologists try (and often struggle) to study them properly.