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

Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?

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

Can a Tibetan singer make the leap from the slow pace of life on the Tibetan plateau to the fast rhythms of urban Beijing?

Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art ...

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

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea ...

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

Philosophers ponder the meaning of life. At least, that is the stereotype. When I risk admitting to a stranger that I teach philosophy for a living and face the question ‘What is the meaning of life?’ ...

Philosophers have a love-hate relationship with the imagination. René Descartes, for one, disparaged it as ‘more of a hindrance than a help’ in answering the most profound questions about the nature ...

In the US, the wealthy continue to own and grow wealth after their death, and the state can enforce the spending wishes of the dead in many ways. For instance, you may require, as a condition of ...