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Just a pale blue dot

On St Valentine’s Day 1990, NASA’s engineers directed the space-probe Voyager 1 – at the time, 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from...

Tim Bayne

In 2020, the New Zealand advertising creative and writer Nick Worthington was riding his bike when he was hit by a car that had run a red light....

The science of our age is computational. Without models, simulations, statistical analysis, data storage and so on, our knowledge of the world...

‘At any rate, spring is here … and they can’t stop you enjoying it.’ In his essay ‘Some Thoughts on the Common Toad’ (1946), George Orwell...

In Plato’s dialogue Symposium, seven varied speeches are made on the meaning of love at an all-male drinking party set in ancient Athens in 416...

From finding the perfect tree to the final varnish, this video from the Hardanger Maritime Centre museum in Norheimsund, Norway shows two...

On a wintry day in Bordeaux, France, I took refuge from the rain inside a cosy bookshop stacked to the ceiling with books. Place Gambetta,...