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?

Freedom over death makes it possible for dying to more fully reflect our selves. And a shorter life sometimes is a better ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do ...

We can all be inconsistent. Philosophy illuminates a bigger puzzle: how do we hold contradictory beliefs at the same time?

Why do we listen to our favourite music over and over again? Because repeated sounds work magic in our brains ...

It’s not just that Hegel and Rousseau were racists. Racism was baked into the very structure of their dialectical philosophy ...