A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must ...
The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) ...
She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planetary goals ...
AI isn’t merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write What would it mean if we were able to ‘speak’ with whales? Do ...
Essays and videos on the history of ideas, tracing how philosophical, political and sociological concepts emerged, evolved ...
Essays and videos recounting life experiences, from biographies of major figures to intimate memoir, capturing snapshots of ...
These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq ...
Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda ...
In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others?
In September 2023, Linda Coombs published Colonization and the Wampanoag Story with Penguin Random House, about the Wampanoag people’s contact with Europeans. The book was categorised under ...
The Description of Heaven (1623), by the astronomer Conrad Aslachus, feels close to many ideas about the afterlife still common in Christianity today: heaven is ‘a stately citie, where we shall be ...
Why can we count to 152? OK, most of us don’t need to stop there, but that’s my point. Counting to 152, and far beyond, comes to us so naturally that it’s hard not to regard our ability to navigate ...
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