In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others?
A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must ...
Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind ...
We don’t always need new scientific discoveries to save lives and improve the world. Often, the knowledge is already there ...
When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more ...
Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain ...
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us how human reason is so much more ...
In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead ...
In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy ...
A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why?
On a sunny day in the summer of 2015, I found myself standing in the basement of an office building in Silicon Valley. The room was packed full of appliances, as if a commercial kitchen had been blown ...
It’s not just screen time: the problem with children’s media is that it has become relentlessly hectic, loud and bright ...
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