What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea ...

Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art ...

Just as humans can use mobile phones or notebooks for memory storage and recall, slime moulds can use slime. Granted, ...

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René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

How the ideas circulating among one noblewoman’s coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought ...

Freedom over death makes it possible for dying to more fully reflect our selves. And a shorter life sometimes is a better reflection of what we care about, and thereby has greater integrity, than a ...

Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope ...

A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast ...

At Wat Doi Kham, my local temple in Chiang Mai in Thailand, visitors come in their thousands every week. Bearing money and garlands of jasmine, the devotees prostrate themselves in front of a small ...