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Is hard data the only path to scientific truth? That’s an absurd, illogical and profoundly useful fiction | Continue reading
The bodies and brains of fathers, not just mothers, are transformed through the love and labour of raising a child | Continue reading
If trauma can be passed down from parent to child, could new therapies blunt the transgenerational epigenetic inheritance? | Continue reading
The bodies and brains of fathers, not just mothers, are transformed through the love and labour of raising a child | Continue reading
As the ground spins beneath their feet and Frank Sinatra croons ‘My Way’, Yoann Bourgeois’s dancers tumble in and out of love | Continue reading
A violinist plays in a concentration camp. A refugee carries a book of poetry. Art sustains us when survival is uncertain | Continue reading
A week’s worth of museum trips animated into a whirlwind survey of human artefacts from the Bronze Age to the Information Age | Continue reading
Biologists balk at any talk of ‘goals’ or ‘intentions’ – but a bold new research agenda has put agency back on the table | Continue reading
The dance of love and lore between grandparent and grandchild is at the centre, not the fringes, of our evolutionary story | Continue reading
Why did the Universe begin? Nobel prizewinner Roger Penrose details an astonishing origin hypothesis of a cyclical, forgetful Universe | Continue reading
Biologists balk at any talk of ‘goals’ or ‘intentions’ – but a bold new research agenda has put agency back on the table | Continue reading
Viruses are active agents, existing within rich lifeworlds. A safe future depends on understanding this evolutionary story | Continue reading
Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist, was an iconic teacher eclipsed by his students, Freud and Husserl among them | Continue reading
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Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist, was an iconic teacher eclipsed by his students, Freud and Husserl among them | Continue reading
The new field of social genomics can be used by progressives to combat racial inequality or by conservatives to excuse it | Continue reading
The dance of love and lore between grandparent and grandchild is at the centre, not the fringes, of our evolutionary story | Continue reading
Bircan longs to learn her grandmother’s native Kurdish but the language is still suppressed in Turkey. Will Anik teach her? | Continue reading
The new field of social genomics can be used by progressives to combat racial inequality or by conservatives to excuse it | Continue reading
A week’s worth of museum trips animated into a whirlwind survey of human artefacts from the Bronze Age to the Information Age | Continue reading
The dance of love and lore between grandparent and grandchild is at the centre, not the fringes, of our evolutionary story | Continue reading
Immorality, sexism, politics, war: the polychromatic Indian epic pulses with relevance to the present day | Continue reading
Immorality, sexism, politics, war: the polychromatic Indian epic pulses with relevance to the present day | Continue reading
For Hegel, human nature strives through history to unchain itself from tradition. But is such inner freedom worth the cost? | Continue reading
Why did the Universe begin? Nobel prizewinner Roger Penrose details an astonishing origin hypothesis of a cyclical, forgetful Universe | Continue reading
Why did the Universe begin? Nobel prizewinner Roger Penrose details an astonishing origin hypothesis of a cyclical, forgetful Universe | Continue reading
The urge to align our minds and emotions with those we care for, whether they are near or far, makes our species unique | Continue reading
A retired teacher, who coaxed poetry from her pupils, embarks on a mission to find out what became of a beloved student | Continue reading
Viruses are active agents, existing within rich lifeworlds. A safe future depends on understanding this evolutionary story | Continue reading
A biological trick or a meaningful pursuit? How philosophers from Buddha and Schopenhauer to Simone de Beauvoir saw love | Continue reading
For Hegel, human nature strives through history to unchain itself from tradition. But is such inner freedom worth the cost? | Continue reading
Security is one thing to a Black mother in a favela, another to a politician keen on law and order. They should be the same | Continue reading
Security is one thing to a Black mother in a favela, another to a politician keen on law and order. They should be the same | Continue reading
Near Area 51 in Nevada, UFO enthusiasts gather in their hundreds, seeking meaning and connection – human or otherworldly | Continue reading
The Harrisons’ eco-art told stories about the apocalypse, pointing to a future where we’d all have to be survival artists | Continue reading
Against the capitalist creeds of scarcity and self-interest, a plan for humanity’s shared flourishing is finally coming into view | Continue reading
Once used to hide subversive messages, the Renaissance technique of anamorphosis proved everything is a matter of perspective | Continue reading