Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too ...

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?

Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move ...

One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons ...

‘As long as there has been such a subject as philosophy, there have been people who hated and despised it,’ reads the opening line of Bernard Williams’s article ‘On Hating and Despising Philosophy’ ...

is a senior research fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Consciousness and Moral Responsibility ...

If you care about animals, you should eat them. It is not just that you may do so, but you should do so. In fact, you owe it to animals to eat them. It is your duty. Why? Because eating animals ...

English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the top right of the video player. Set in the windswept hills of rural Iran, the short documentary Sarnevesht (Daughter) ...

For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many ...

Deep inside a luscious grove in Nigeria, a community of artists preserves otherworldly monuments to Yorùbá spirituality ...

Medieval artists depicted bodies as vehicles for politics and hierarchy. Repeated enough, these roles began to appear natural ...

Ancient Athenians chose leaders by lottery rather than elections. Could this solve the problems facing democracy today?