The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) ...

For India’s travelling stunt drivers, who risk their lives for a living, freedom lies on the other side of fear ...

A documentary connecting two Singapores: the Asian country expanded on imported sand and a town in Michigan buried by dunes ...

From fluffing feathers to washing skins, a museum taxidermist shows the hidden art behind creating an ‘illusion of life’ ...

In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world ...

Visually striking and intricately crafted, the traditional armour and weaponry of the Kiribati islands in the Pacific Ocean were built from coconut fibre, human hair, sharks’ teeth and porcupine fish.

Since Plato, a dominant strain of Western philosophy has understood human beings primarily as rational thinkers, a view typified by René Descartes’s conclusion: cogito ergo sum (‘I think, therefore I ...

In the early 1960s, quantum physics was regarded as one of the most successful theories of all time. It explained a wide range of phenomena to an unprecedented level of accuracy, from the structure of ...

is professor and personal chair in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in in Scotland, UK. He has published many articles and books on the ethics of suicide, assisted dying, and suicide ...

The American philosopher David Lewis is remembered for defending modal realism: the view that non-actual possible worlds are as real as the actual world. But among those who knew him, he was as well ...

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 ...

Kurt Schwenk, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut, views reptile and amphibian tongues as his ‘Darwin’s finches’. And, due to recent advances in high-speed ...