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

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 ...

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 ...

Could one road forever change this remote Alaskan refuge?

We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface ...

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

Acting is an ancient and intrinsically human way to establish vibrant connections with one another. And it’s available to us all Religious ritual to appease the gods or free expression of human agency ...

For most people today, public elections are synonymous with democracy. However, between 508 and 322 BCE, Athenians favoured a lottery system known as ‘sortition’. They largely believed it to be more ...

Prometheus might have handed humanity fire, but he certainly did not give us a smartphone. Digital technology is not God-given. Nor is digital technology a natural kind, an object of nature, like ...