A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...

How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world ...

We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US ...

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...

Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest ...

There is some other type of beauty that is not visual,’ he explained to us in an interview. ‘I’m not sure what it is. Perhaps ...

Praying is a cognitive practice full of problem-solving resources. You can learn from it even if you don’t want to do it ...

Both Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his friend Adam Smith agreed that modern humans were vain creatures, ceaselessly adjusting and masking themselves to gain the favour of others. However, as this short ...

is the Anne and George L Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee ...

In the animated documentary The Waiting, Karen Lips, professor of biology at University of Maryland, College Park, chronicles a mysterious mass disappearance she encountered across two field studies ...