Essays and videos on the history of ideas, tracing how philosophical, political and sociological concepts emerged, evolved ...

The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) ...

AI isn’t merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write What would it mean if we were able to ‘speak’ with whales? Do ...

In 73 or 74 CE, 960 Jewish zealots – men, women and children – committed suicide on top of the mountain of Masada by the Dead Sea in Israel rather than be captured by the Romans. The story, told by ...

Essays and videos recounting life experiences, from biographies of major figures to intimate memoir, capturing snapshots of ...

The Description of Heaven (1623), by the astronomer Conrad Aslachus, feels close to many ideas about the afterlife still common in Christianity today: heaven is ‘a stately citie, where we shall be ...

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us how human reason is so much more ...

Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda ...

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq ...

She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and sustainability was one inseparable, planetary goal ...

In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others?

A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must ...