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I once exalted in the extraordinary. But as I’ve learned from Virginia Woolf, indelible beauty is also found in the everyday ...

With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation ...

On call with the volunteers offering humanitarian aid to thousands of migrants from the Global South trying to enter into ...

A hero or a murderer? Stalin’s legacy is still a contentious issue in his birthplace, seven decades after his death ...

Ascend steep cliffs to discover Ethiopia’s ancient churches carved into rock, still serving as places of worship today ...

Can colour be understood geometrically? If so, what’s the best way to map it out, capturing the variables of hue, brightness and saturation? These questions have deep implications for art, physics and ...

Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery, brought to animated life, capture the turn of the seasons in central Australia ...

Life happened fast It’s time to rethink how we study life’s origins – it emerged far earlier, and far quicker, than anyone thought possible ...

More than a century before Carl Linnaeus set out to categorise the natural world, the 16th-century Flemish painter and polymath Joris Hoefnagel began to render the creatures around him in ...

Should owning an idea be treated the same way as owning a physical object, or are these two forms of property rights ultimately incomparable? How should societies balance incentivising new ideas with ...