How did this ancient and enigmatic sculpture of a beautiful Egyptian queen end up as fortune’s hostage in Germany? | Continue reading
A harrowing, hand-drawn animation exploring the perilous life of a child chimney sweep in 19th-century London | Continue reading
Massive tree-planting programmes have come to substitute for the tradeoffs and complexity of restoring real ecosystems | Continue reading
Incentives, rewards, bonuses and bonding experiences – Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists | Continue reading
The infamous thought experiment, flawed as it is, does demonstrate one thing: physics alone can’t explain consciousness | Continue reading
The infamous thought experiment, flawed as it is, does demonstrate one thing: physics alone can’t explain consciousness | Continue reading
A thought-provoking, experimental animation on what it means for a supposedly ‘objective’ AI to predict an early death | Continue reading
The dropout was not just a hippy-trippy hedonist but a paranoid soul, who feared brainwashing and societal control | Continue reading
Financial markets are entangled and uncertain. When will economists let go of physics envy to embrace the quantum revolution? | Continue reading
Unravelling the epic story of the world’s oldest pair of trousers, found inside an immaculately preserved grave in China | Continue reading
Financial markets are entangled and uncertain. When will economists let go of physics envy to embrace the quantum revolution? | Continue reading
The sublime power of Caspar David Friedrich’s Romantic landscapes comes from placing a humble human amid nature’s grandeur | Continue reading
Spiritual highs and mental breakdowns are both products of the same evolved brain system granting us the power to transform | Continue reading
Haddon Salt, the ‘Colonel Sanders of fish and chips’, and his salty story of the fast-food empire that never quite was | Continue reading
Let your imagination take flight to the hunting, riding, adventurous lives of Scythia’s warrior women, the real Amazons | Continue reading
Watch how praying mantises, beetles and weevils become airborne, shown at a speed slow enough for the human eye to appreciate | Continue reading
In 1985 West Germany’s president gave an unflinching speech. It helped a new generation to face the Nazi past honestly | Continue reading
Life in Tuktoyaktuk, one of Canada’s northernmost villages, where the summers grow longer and the land is sinking into the sea | Continue reading
Not eating animals is wrong. If you care about animals, then the right thing to do is breed them, kill them and eat them | Continue reading
Read with love, rather than critical distance, the classics can provide tools to subvert oppressive hierarchies | Continue reading
Horses leap and arrows fly as knights charge into battle in a Renaissance masterpiece brought to violent, chaotic life | Continue reading
Even when you know that prospects are grim, hope can help. It’s not just a feeling, but a way to step into the future | Continue reading
‘We treat people like they are a member of our family’: a funeral director who takes in those that stigma leaves unclaimed | Continue reading
‘We treat people like they are a member of our family’: a funeral director who takes in those that stigma leaves unclaimed | Continue reading
The humble cocoa bean’s journey from its Amerindian origins to worldwide dominance is a lesson in the power of trade | Continue reading
To achieve enlightenment, resist the urge to know the unknowable with these unsolvable riddles from Zen Buddhist monks | Continue reading
The horse is a prey animal, the human a predator. Our shared trust and athleticism is a neurobiological miracle | Continue reading
The horse is a prey animal, the human a predator. Our shared trust and athleticism is a neurobiological miracle | Continue reading
From military strategies to tax obligations – what khipu knots reveal about the inner workings of the Inka Empire | Continue reading
After generations of ‘blackboard economics’, Berkeley and MIT are leading a return to economics that studies the real world | Continue reading
Flickers of joy punctuate the chaos of life aboard a refugee rescue ship, but rescue is no guarantee of a safe onward journey | Continue reading
When logic fails to make sense of a world noisy with inconsistency, paraconsistent logics hold out (im)possible solutions | Continue reading
Absorb the infectious energy of Setapa, a dance from southern Africa, in all its rhythmic stomping and joyful singing | Continue reading
Mythological home of Helen, war-making polis of Leonidas and now a modest municipality: the city is a palimpsest | Continue reading
Dig into the voids, pin-pricks and cut-outs of art and history, and those absences speak volumes about what’s been missed | Continue reading
Interweaving dreams and memories of hunting caribou, Florent Vollant’s beautiful songs preserve his Indigenous culture’s spirit | Continue reading
Is anger like energy, forever changing form but never dissipating, or part of our repertoire of desires, the cry of a need unmet? | Continue reading
An update to Charles and Ray Eames’s film ‘Powers of Ten’ explores what we’ve learned about the Universe since 1977 | Continue reading
Recognising that waste is central, not peripheral, to everything we design, make and do is key to transforming the future | Continue reading
The terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are messy, harmful and distracting. We should get rid of them | Continue reading
Driven by the need for a storied life, I relished the opportunity for endless travel. Is that a moment in time, now over? | Continue reading
How to fly a giant, winged Cretaceous beast – a not-entirely frivolous intro to the intricacies of pterosaur biodynamics | Continue reading
Major disruptions in world history follow a clear pattern. What can upheavals of the past tell us about our own future? | Continue reading
Anonymous users generate most toxic abuse and conspiracy theories online. The right to be anonymous should be curtailed | Continue reading
How Merce Cunningham challenged traditional notions of storytelling in dance via technology, philosophy and randomness | Continue reading
You might think of it as a philosophy for turning away from the world, but ancient Stoics took a stand against tyranny | Continue reading
The search for dolphin intelligence and the quest for alien life have moved in historical lockstep. What does the future hold? | Continue reading
Behold the elegant sights and powerful sound of a mechanical foghorn in Shetland awaking from its year-long slumber | Continue reading