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 ...
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 associate professor in philosophy at Durham University, UK. She writes on many topics but especially space, time and travel. Her most recent trade book is The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad ...
One of my favourite dinosaurs is the Stegosaurus, a monster from the late Jurassic (150 million years ago), noteworthy because of the diamond-like plates all the way down its back. Since this animal ...
‘The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.’ This phenomenon – observed in the 1930s by the English ...
The inventor James Lovelock was born in England in 1919. Early during the Second World War, armed with a degree in chemistry, he went to work for the British government on a variety of projects on the ...
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