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

On the coast of Cornwall in southwest England lies the picturesque village of Flushing, shaped by its fishing heritage and close-knit community. In this gentle portrait of place, the UK director Anna ...

In the United States, a large share of fruit and vegetable production comes from California, where the agricultural industry relies heavily on immigrant labour. Many of these workers arrive from ...

Fleur Hopkins-Loféron is an art historian, specialising in scientific imaginaries. She is the author of Voir l’invisible: Histoire visuelle du mouvement merveilleux-scientifique (2023), and her ...

Commissioned as a summer home for a wealthy Pittsburgh department store owner, Fallingwater (1935-38) is often considered Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece. This video by the YouTube channel Open Space ...

In 2022, I arrived at the University of Oxford to debate the very existence of Ethiopian philosophy: is there even such a thing that we can call ‘Ethiopian philosophy’? The conference was part of a ...

The last time I spoke to Godfrey-Smith about this, he asked if I had any ideas why birds hadn’t produced a highly cultural species. I didn’t then. But I do now. His question set me cogitating about ...

Derived from iron-rich rocks, red ochre is humanity’s oldest known pigment, with a discovery in a cave in Zambia believed to date back between 350,000 and 400,000 years. For archaeologists, it serves ...