Elephant families are matriarchal, inclusive and caring. But when environmental scarcity hits, everything changes ...

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

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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I’m left breathless when I face the abyss’ – a stirring portrait of the Mexican cliff divers who leap 100 feet into the sea ...

is department chair and professor of history of philosophy at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is currently finalising his latest book Socialising Minds: Intersubjectivity in Early ...

Imagine the following situation. You have spent your life dedicated to the cultivation of wisdom. You have read all the books of wisdom literature from around the world, and are up to date with the ...

In the early 1960s, quantum physics was regarded as one of the most successful theories of all time. It explained a wide range of phenomena to an unprecedented level of accuracy, from the structure of ...

‘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 ...

My recollections of my grandfather are mostly from childhood visits to my grandparents’ summer cottage in East Hampton in the 1950s and ’60s. The village, with its magnificent Atlantic beaches on the ...