Can a Tibetan singer make the leap from the slow pace of life on the Tibetan plateau to the fast rhythms of urban Beijing?

Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?

What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea ...

Just as humans can use mobile phones or notebooks for memory storage and recall, slime moulds can use slime. Granted, ...

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

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

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

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

Philosophers ponder the meaning of life. At least, that is the stereotype. When I risk admitting to a stranger that I teach philosophy for a living and face the question ‘What is the meaning of life?’ ...

I have sometimes heard arguments that assisted dying should be discouraged because it amounts to ‘choosing death’. That is inaccurate. We human beings have made remarkable progress in extending our ...

Philosophers have a love-hate relationship with the imagination. René Descartes, for one, disparaged it as ‘more of a hindrance than a help’ in answering the most profound questions about the nature ...

The powerful short documentary Blue Room observes individuals incarcerated in two prisons in the Pacific Northwest as they participate in an experimental programme that allows them to take in tranquil ...