Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art ...

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René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

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Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

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Three earthquakes hit Mexico City on the same date in 1985, 2017 and 2022. The coincidence left the city stranded in time ...

Clayton Page Aldern is a data reporter at Grist. His writing has been published by The Guardian, The Atlantic and The Economist, among others, and he is the author of The Weight of Nature: How a ...