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From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it Photo by Constantine...
Dolphins and other lovers The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous...
A vocabulary for the future: touch Being in the world: technology and humanity Charles Spence: Sensploration Henri Bergson: Creative Evolution Henri...
The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum Thieves of ‘cursed’ rocks pen letters of remorse to a national park The Petrified Forest National Park in...
In praise of zealotry Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why? Don...
The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them by Ella Browning BIO...
The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum The passion and puppetry of Ronnie Burkett Ëdhä Dädhëcha̧ | Moosehide Slide The art of museum dioramas Once...
The neverending house The self-built homes of Santiago are precarious and ever changing. They are, always and at once, being and becoming by Consuelo...
In a bid for spiritual renewal, I made a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city. Almost everything I expected to see was gone by Azania Imtiaz Patel BIO...
Where the earth meets the sky James Turrell: you who look Powers of ten, updated The Universe in motion Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s time travels The...
A tale of brotherhood, bouncy castles and the American dream For his celebrated short documentary Bouncy Brothers, the US director Nicholas J Santore...
A second sexual revolution Until Shere Hite’s Report, even the most daring sexologists refused to listen to what women desired and hated in sex by...
How we meet the future If we couldn’t make generalisations, we would be paralysed by the world’s complexity. Does that ever excuse stereotyping?...
Nomadic architecture: the Nenets chum Persistence of vision III Africa’s cultural landmarks: rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia The strange,...
The hunt for Bigfoot sounds like the opposite of good science, but those pursuing the creature are often serious empiricists by Andrew Bartlett &...
C P Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture provoked a savage response from fellow critic F R Leavis. What was at the heart of it all? Illustration by...
Jean Nouvel: reflections Five years after the war Dafa metti (Difficult) Paris’s business district boasts imposing art. But who is it for? Located...
Slingshots of the oceanic The last ice merchant As glaciers melt, a writer considers what stories can do that data cannot The Icelandic writer and...
Towards an AI for Africa Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life by...
Thucydides the perspicacious Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all...
Ani Liu: eye heart womb Now I’m in the kitchen Firelei Báez: an open horizon Transforming scientific enquiry and human bodies into visceral art For...
Resist the technocrats Through international organisations, they wield power under the pretence of simply following the experts. Don’t believe them...
How art invented humanity When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images...
The other side of the mountain Down from the mountains The workforce of elderly women recycling what Vietnam throws away Sixty-four-year-old Bể...
How to spot pseudoscience Karl Popper’s falsification Alison Gopnik: Why philosophy of science? What do we need to know? The problem of harassment...
My father’s death sent me to the jiu-jitsu mat. Then came defeat, low testosterone and the lure of a chemical cheat code Photo by Eduardo...
The taming of Black thought Black philosophers now feature on Western curricula, but the European tradition diminishes their radicalism into...
In search of the northern cassowary Island of the hornbills Vogelkop superb bird-of-paradise King of Saxony: otherworldly calls The wild courtship...
Allan Basbaum has spent 50 years searching the nervous system for the places where pain begins – and where it can be stopped by Stephani...
The savage bites back Rooted in Brazilian modernism, anthropophagy devours and transforms culture, subverting colonial fears of cannibalism by Sofia...
Charting animal cognition The hidden world of plant roots Why did consciousness evolve? A spark of consciousness What is life? Is death real? Is AI...
Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey The Angelus (1857-59) by...
Every 122 years, Venus crosses the Sun as a black and fleeting teardrop, kindling the awe of all those who dare to know by Ananya Palivela BIO The...
How to offset your brain From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help by...
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‘The emperor is far away’ Ming Dynasty China left us copious texts, but these veil the lives of the vast majority of its people from our view by...
Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work? by Joshua Habgood-Coote BIO...
A trip down memory lane Jazz and innovative animation form a sensory swirl in this 1949 short Warning: this film features rapidly flashing images that...
The testimonies of Ukraine’s war widows reveal the mortal risk of love and the possibility of dying while alive: a black pain Olga and her daughter...
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