Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return ...

Crafting each frame by hand, an animator paints the story of an Olympic swimmer’s return after surviving the Holocaust ...

The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly ...

Although the brain represents just 2 per cent of body weight, it consumes about 20 per cent of our energy at rest. Every ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some people took up baking, others decided to get a dog; I chose to grow and observe slime mould. The study in my partner’s flat in Edinburgh became home to two cultures ...

The opposition between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ is problematic for many reasons, but there’s one that we rarely discuss. The ‘nature vs culture’ dualism leaves out an entire domain that properly belongs ...

It’s a question that’s reverberated through the ages – are humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured creatures? Or are we, deep down, wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, ...

Empathy, the sharing of feelings with another person and consequently caring about them, is typically a virtue in our society. ‘I hear you’ and ‘I feel your pain’ are said with a sense of compassion ...

I suffered from a bad conscience before the case even began. My patient was in his late 70s, partially blind from narrow-angle glaucoma. He had undergone a colonoscopy a few days before and now needed ...

The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?

Take a kaleidoscopic journey through the early history of film, inspired by an enduring fascination with motion and form ...

Skadden, less hampered by the pretentions of its WASP competitors, decided to broaden its search. Black and Asian, white-ethnic and Latino, men and women: as long as they could handle the gruelling ...