We will never truly advance our ethical relationship with other animals until we stop treating them as chattels for use | Continue reading
We will never truly advance our ethical relationship with other animals until we stop treating them as chattels for use | Continue reading
The evolutionary benefits of an undercover life: meet the stick insect that disguises itself as a seed, an ant and a leaf | Continue reading
The evolutionary benefits of an undercover life: meet the stick insect that disguises itself as a seed, an ant and a leaf | Continue reading
Energy flow between brain and environment drives the non-equilibrium that sustains life. Could turbulence help us thrive? | Continue reading
Meet the world’s only full-time cruiser, ‘Super Mario’ Salcedo, who has spent more than two decades living on cruise ships | Continue reading
If your hometown were beset with toxic dust, like Australia’s Broken Hill, would you feel any less connected to it? | Continue reading
Far more potent than oil or gold, water is a stream of geopolitical force that runs deep, feeding crops and building nations | Continue reading
His grandfather’s role in the Algerian War of Independence is a mystery that sets Bastien’s imagination in search of the truth | Continue reading
We are suspended between the inescapable facts of our lives and what we do to contest them, nowhere more than in prison | Continue reading
‘Horn OK please’: a postcard from Mumbai, a city of 20 million, where there’s poetry in simply getting from A to B | Continue reading
Neither psychology nor anthropology fully understand love: only history sees that it’s all about the time and the telling | Continue reading
The official definition of corruption – the abuse of public office for private gain – does little to capture the reality | Continue reading
A radical sex-ed class, aimed at normalising the vulva, reveals what many must learn and unlearn in order to love their bodies | Continue reading
From kinship systems to environmental lore, Indigenous philosophy could help reprogram the cultural code of AI | Continue reading
The principle of indifference has an unresolved paradox at its core that goes right to the heart of scientific objectivity | Continue reading
The principle of indifference has an unresolved paradox at its core that goes right to the heart of scientific objectivity | Continue reading
Far more potent than oil or gold, water is a stream of geopolitical force that runs deep, feeding crops and building nations | Continue reading
‘Please act normal and wash your armpit’: dating pet peeves that 20something art students won’t overlook (but will animate) | Continue reading
A bioethicist at the heart of the Italian coronavirus crisis asks: why won’t we talk about the tradeoffs of the lockdown? | Continue reading
Believe in the Loch Ness monster and you’re more likely to believe the Apollo missions were fake. How do weird beliefs work? | Continue reading
The dropout was not just a hippy-trippy hedonist but a paranoid soul, who feared brainwashing and societal control | Continue reading
What shaped the thought of E P Thompson, the great historian of ordinary working people and champion of their significance? | Continue reading
A professor of physics explains how mind-bending quantum experiments are blurring the line between past, present and future | Continue reading
Believe in the Loch Ness monster and you’re more likely to believe the Apollo missions were fake. How do weird beliefs work? | Continue reading
A historic peek behind the scenes at museums in New York, Harvard and Washington shows what it takes to bring exhibits to life | Continue reading
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