What is a German museum doing with a Kikuyu artefact it doesn’t know anything about? A journey to Kenya for some answers ...

How did Robert Frost so perfectly capture a moment of timelessness? Discover the hidden craft in this classic’s simplicity ...

Since Plato, a dominant strain of Western philosophy has understood human beings primarily as rational thinkers, a view typified by René Descartes’s conclusion: cogito ergo sum (‘I think, therefore I ...

is an economist at a financial institution in Hong Kong. He has degrees in philosophy and economics from the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. He writes and illustrates a series of ...

An intricate system of roads connected the furthest reaches of the Roman Empire, which at its height in the 2nd century CE spanned modern-day Algeria, Egypt, Turkey and England. A collaboration ...

‘There is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.’ From Prejudices (1920) by H L Mencken There has never been a problem facing mankind more complex than ...

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Scientific motherhood’ promised to create high standards for child-rearing. But it’s really a system designed to police women ...

Two women – one aged 35, the other 102 – become friends. This is what the road trip they can’t take would look like ...

‘Whose day isn’t gonna be better after watching a pink and yellow rosy maple moth fly in super-slow motion?’ You might think of moths primarily as the pesky creatures that get drawn to your lamplight ...

‘I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extra-sensory perception … telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psycho-kinesis. These disturbing phenomena seem to deny all our usual ...

After decades of experimenting on animal brains, the US neurosurgeon Robert J White proposed executing a ‘whole body transplant’ on a rhesus monkey in the late 1960s. By performing a complex surgery ...