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

Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly love ...

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

A riveting ride through the history of astrophysics, this video details how humans have climbed ‘the cosmic distance ladder’ to calculate sizes and distances in the cosmos. The second in a two-part ...

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

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

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

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

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

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