This short captures Tim Bovard, the staff taxidermist for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, as he reflects on over five decades spent perfecting his craft. Sparked by a childhood ...

A documentary connecting two Singapores: the Asian country expanded on imported sand and a town in Michigan buried by dunes ...

In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world ...

Visually striking and intricately crafted, the traditional armour and weaponry of the Kiribati islands in the Pacific Ocean ...

All our laws and rules to protect coral reefs now stand in the way of radical action to save them from heat death ...

A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

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 ...

In his short film Angles of Love, the UK-based artist and demographic scientist Vincent Straub asks friends, family and strangers the question: ‘What is love to you?’ Receiving an eclectic mix of ...

poetry as I need it . Like the negative space against which words become visible (voids emphasised in ...

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 ...

is professor and personal chair in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in in Scotland, UK. He has published many articles and books on the ethics of suicide, assisted dying, and suicide ...