Elephant families are matriarchal, inclusive and caring. But when environmental scarcity hits, everything changes ...

An ode to life on the road. Irish Travellers at a gathering in County Galway share memories, songs and crafts by the fire ...

‘Call me Victor,’ says the mustachioed scientist as he picks me up from the airport on a brisk, fall afternoon in Germany. Victor Smetacek is an esteemed marine biologist, but he’s decided to spend ...

Same-sex marriage is an astonishing case of progress propelled by democracy, in the face of public spite and misinformation ...

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

In this mesmerising short from 1991, thousands of Japanese newspaper clippings form a prescient vision of our digital world ...

‘Being 97 has been an interesting experience.’ By the time of his death, the US philosopher Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018) had lived what most would consider a full and meaningful life. His marriage ...

Starting in 1969, and for several years afterwards, in church basements and community centre kitchens in cities and towns around the United States, thousands of kids sat around a table every school ...

A slight shift in Cleopatra’s beauty, and the Roman Empire unravels. You miss your train, and an unexpected encounter changes the course of your life. A butterfly alights from a tree in Michoacán, ...

Through her paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe laid claim to New Mexico’s desert landscape. But it was never hers for the taking Joseph Wright of Derby put science at the centre of his art. Eclipsed in his ...

I’m left breathless when I face the abyss’ – a stirring portrait of the Mexican cliff divers who leap 100 feet into the sea ...

is an associate professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College in New York. She teaches and writes in the areas of feminist bioethics, neuroethics, social and political philosophy, and moral psychology.