Is time a property of the Universe? Yes, if you conceive of it as heat: a mind-boggling yet oddly comforting perspective ...
David’s handcrafted figurines pay tribute to cultural icons. His latest project takes on his greatest hero, his late brother ...
A jaunty song calls for greater appreciation of Indian wool, as imports undermine the livelihoods of local herders ...
is Dean and Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York. He is the author of Open Standards and the Digital Age (2014) and co-editor of Ada’s Legacy ...
An action-figure maker’s outsized tribute to his late brother ...
Rising far above the desert, the walls of these magnificent hills carry the ancient story of humanity’s creative spark ...
It was a rust bucket, sure, but this car delivered the most precious good to a group of friends in 1980s Poland: freedom ...
While their stories are distinct, overlapping themes of loneliness, agony and elaborate mental escapes run throughout. Beyond making a forceful case against the use of solitary confinement, the film ...
In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature ...
is department chair and professor of history of philosophy at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is currently finalising his latest book Socialising Minds: Intersubjectivity in Early ...
At Wat Doi Kham, my local temple in Chiang Mai in Thailand, visitors come in their thousands every week. Bearing money and garlands of jasmine, the devotees prostrate themselves in front of a small ...
The Sun rises every day. Water boils at 100°C. Apples fall to the ground. We live in a world in which objects behave the same given the same circumstances. We can imagine living in a different world: ...