Directed by the Afghan-born Canadian filmmaker Salar Pashtoonyar, Hills and Mountains recalls how the Soviet invasion of ...

The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus ...

According to Leibniz: ‘we can find no true or existent fact … without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not ...

Essays and videos on ageing and death, exploring mortality, loss and growing old through personal narratives, philosophy and ...

Essays and videos on how humans construct a sense of self with and against technology, from analogue tools to advances in AI.

AI isn’t merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write What would it mean if we were able to ‘speak’ with whales? Do ...

Essays and videos on the history of ideas, tracing how philosophical, political and sociological concepts emerged, evolved ...

But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself When did stories become so centred on good battling evil?

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

Essays and videos on illness and disease, exploring ill health through science, personal narratives, history, sociology and ...

Essays and videos recounting life experiences, from biographies of major figures to intimate memoir, capturing snapshots of ...

For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric ...