One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons ...

For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many ...

Deep inside a luscious grove in Nigeria, a community of artists preserves otherworldly monuments to Yorùbá spirituality ...

Although the brain represents just 2 per cent of body weight, it consumes about 20 per cent of our energy at rest. Every ...

Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return ...

From weapon to icon – a riveting history lesson in the many meanings of the samurai sword that’s also just plain cool to see ...

Here is an easy challenge: imagine you are faced with a tough problem. Life is strewn with problems that need to be solved. And most problems do not require single decisions, like ‘Who should I vote ...

Known for his dense and abstract writings, G W F Hegel (1770-1831) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century. His ideas were united by his conception of history as a process in ...

‘I feel like I’m falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger … I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping ...

If you care about animals, you should eat them. It is not just that you may do so, but you should do so. In fact, you owe it to animals to eat them. It is your duty. Why? Because eating animals ...

Twice a day, for a total of 19 months during the 1920s, the American vaudeville performer Edward H Gibson would get up on stage and perform a death-defying routine. The man billed as ‘The Human ...

The opposition between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ is problematic for many reasons, but there’s one that we rarely discuss. The ‘nature vs culture’ dualism leaves out an entire domain that properly belongs ...