Scientific motherhood’ promised to create high standards for child-rearing. But it’s really a system designed to police women ...

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

As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight ...

This life-giving element, stored in rock and organic material, moves around Earth in an ancient cycle we have just broken ...

Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?

How did Robert Frost so perfectly capture a moment of timelessness? Discover the hidden craft in this classic’s simplicity ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine the following situation. You have spent your life dedicated to the cultivation of wisdom. You have read all the books of wisdom literature from around the world, and are up to date with the ...

In the early 1960s, quantum physics was regarded as one of the most successful theories of all time. It explained a wide range of phenomena to an unprecedented level of accuracy, from the structure of ...

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

My recollections of my grandfather are mostly from childhood visits to my grandparents’ summer cottage in East Hampton in the 1950s and ’60s. The village, with its magnificent Atlantic beaches on the ...