Disagreements can be unpleasant, even offensive, but they are vital to human reason. Without them we remain in the dark | Continue reading
Simone Weil: mystic, philosopher, activist. Her ethics demand that we look beyond the personal and find the universal | Continue reading
Popular culture sees Nero as a sadist. The artefacts tell a more balanced story, revealing how history mutates over time | Continue reading
We no longer have a clear sense of how to introduce our children to death. But their questions can help us face up to it | Continue reading
An ode to the rotifer – how these microscopic creatures live, die and dry out, entering a peculiar state somewhere in between | Continue reading
An ode to the rotifer – how these microscopic creatures live, die and dry out, entering a peculiar state somewhere in between | Continue reading
Deep brain stimulation not only treats psychiatric disease – it changes the whole person, boosting confidence and openness | Continue reading
Deep brain stimulation not only treats psychiatric disease – it changes the whole person, boosting confidence and openness | Continue reading
Shoddy filmmaking, stiff acting, clinical dialogue – yes! The cult thrill of a 1960s police training film for a sudden birth | Continue reading
Shoddy filmmaking, stiff acting, clinical dialogue – yes! The cult thrill of a 1960s police training film for a sudden birth | Continue reading
Our crisis of public knowledge is an ethical crisis. Rewarding ‘truthfulness’ above ‘truth’ is a step towards a solution | Continue reading
Our crisis of public knowledge is an ethical crisis. Rewarding ‘truthfulness’ above ‘truth’ is a step towards a solution | Continue reading
Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration. We just need to mine those valuable resources – and duck a direct hit | Continue reading
White supremacists fetishise ancient Rome – but antiquity was more diverse and polychromatic than racists will admit | Continue reading
Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration. We just need to mine those valuable resources – and duck a direct hit | Continue reading
Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration. We just need to mine those valuable resources – and duck a direct hit | Continue reading
Some infinities are bigger than others – to understand why, you’ll need to check in to the odd world of the Hilbert Hotel | Continue reading
Some infinities are bigger than others – to understand why, you’ll need to check in to the odd world of the Hilbert Hotel | Continue reading
Mead, so radical about gender and sex in her early work, doubled down on the differences between men and women later. Why? | Continue reading
Mead, so radical about gender and sex in her early work, doubled down on the differences between men and women later. Why? | Continue reading
Everyone on the planet has a stake in making investment more ethical. What’s new is that they have the power to do so too | Continue reading
With their buzzes, clanks and whirrs, the rhythms of prison life form a meditation on conformity and freedom | Continue reading
With their buzzes, clanks and whirrs, the rhythms of prison life form a meditation on conformity and freedom | Continue reading
Everyone on the planet has a stake in making investment more ethical. What’s new is that they have the power to do so too | Continue reading
Everyone on the planet has a stake in making investment more ethical. What’s new is that they have the power to do so too | Continue reading
An alien-made artefact or just interstellar debris? What ʻOumuamua says about how science works when data is scarce | Continue reading
How a ‘periodic table’ of animal cognition could help us get past our biases when assessing the minds of nonhuman beings | Continue reading
How a ‘periodic table’ of animal cognition could help us get past our biases when assessing the minds of nonhuman beings | Continue reading
It’s become a commonplace that demographic anxiety is driving white voters to the far Right. This is dangerously wrong | Continue reading
It’s become a commonplace that demographic anxiety is driving white voters to the far Right. This is dangerously wrong | Continue reading
White supremacists fetishise ancient Rome – but antiquity was more diverse and polychromatic than racists will admit | Continue reading
White supremacists fetishise ancient Rome – but antiquity was more diverse and polychromatic than racists will admit | Continue reading
An environmental activist living off-grid in an English forest faces her toughest challenge yet – a new primary school | Continue reading
An environmental activist living off-grid in an English forest faces her toughest challenge yet – a new primary school | Continue reading
Truth, knowledge, justice – to understand how our loftiest abstractions earn their keep, trace them to their practical origins | Continue reading
Truth, knowledge, justice – to understand how our loftiest abstractions earn their keep, trace them to their practical origins | Continue reading
Roads, bridges, tunnels and trains form a grand, urban circulatory system in time-lapse footage of New York City | Continue reading
Roads, bridges, tunnels and trains form a grand, urban circulatory system in time-lapse footage of New York City | Continue reading
Feminists who see police and prisons as their natural allies are entrenching the sexism and racism they claim to oppose | Continue reading
Feminists who see police and prisons as their natural allies are entrenching the sexism and racism they claim to oppose | Continue reading
How the world of emotions differs for people with aphantasia, who are unable to visualise images in their mind’s eye | Continue reading
How the world of emotions differs for people with aphantasia, who are unable to visualise images in their mind’s eye | Continue reading
George Berkeley was a visionary immaterialist. And a philosopher whose views on subordination to God legitimised slavery | Continue reading
George Berkeley was a visionary immaterialist. And a philosopher whose views on subordination to God legitimised slavery | Continue reading
The so-called ‘Mozart effect’ is a case study in how research can get distorted and overstated in the public imagination | Continue reading
The so-called ‘Mozart effect’ is a case study in how research can get distorted and overstated in the public imagination | Continue reading
European ideas of African illiteracy are persistent, prejudiced and, as the story of Libyc script shows, entirely wrong | Continue reading
European ideas of African illiteracy are persistent, prejudiced and, as the story of Libyc script shows, entirely wrong | Continue reading