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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 ...

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 ...

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

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

In 1899, the economist Thorstein Veblen observed that silver spoons and corsets were markers of elite social position. In Veblen’s now famous treatise The Theory of the Leisure Class, he coined the ...

For children, there’s something more valuable than family, health or education – they need adults to let them be carefree ...

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 ...