Life on this small, off-the-grid island offers closeness to land and community for those willing, and able, to work for it ...

Is seeking an explanation for life’s deepest mysteries a worthy pursuit? Many scientists and theologians would say yes. Zen Buddhists practising in China from the 9th to 13th centuries CE, however, ...

No one walks among the wild goats and darting snakes of the mountain, its steppe where grew the succulent plants grew nothing but the reed of tears … Akkad is destroyed! This lament is from the ‘Curse ...

This short animation from 1971 adapts a traditional Indian folktale of a ‘she-Sun’ and a ‘he-Moon’ whose ill-fated love first brought death to the humans on Earth enduring ‘unbearable’ immortal ...

Before she even knew what was happening, he was already on her. He punched her in the face, smashed her head against the wall, and dragged her through the corridor by her hair. The pain was searing; ...

We live in a golden age of technological, medical, scientific and social progress. Look at our computers! Look at our phones! Twenty years ago, the internet was a creaky machine for geeks. Now we ...

is a philosopher who teaches at the University of Cambridge. She recently became the first philosopher to perform at Latitude Festival, and writes regularly for Quartz. We live out our lives amid a ...

Cultural exchange is often assumed to be progressive, but it has neither an inherent politics nor an inevitable outcome. As nationalism rises across the globe, many see ‘cultural exchange’ as the ...

is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics. His most recent book is A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design. Historians of science ...

In 2018, two firefighters in the small Venezuelan town of Apartaderos posted a video online likening a local donkey, said to be named ‘Nicolás’, to then-president Nicolás Maduro. The gag quickly went ...

is a doctoral candidate in social/personality psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Emotion, among ...