She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and sustainability was one inseparable, planetary goal ...

In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead ...

We don’t always need new scientific discoveries to save lives and improve the world. Often, the knowledge is already there ...

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us how human reason is so much more ...

In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others?

A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must ...

In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy ...

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 ...

Existing as a Chinese enclave within British Hong Kong for roughly a century, in the 1980s Kowloon Walled City was considered the most densely populated place on Earth. Built 14 storeys high and with ...

A typical university course in the history of philosophy surveys the great thinkers of Western civilisation as a stately procession from Plato to Aristotle to Descartes to Kant to Hegel to Nietzsche.

As Hannah Arendt and her husband Heinrich Blücher waited in Montauban, France in the summer of 1940 to receive emergency exit papers they did not give into anxiety or despair. They found bicycles and ...

In this clip from the celebrated science education series Cosmos (1980), the astronomer Carl Sagan explores the life and legacy of the ancient Greek polymath Eratosthenes, who, in the 3rd century BCE, ...