Designed to be ignored’ – uncover the surprisingly fascinating origins of background music in this video essay on Erik Satie ...

For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t ...

Glimpse into the daily life of a female shaman who hosts ayahuasca ceremonies for tourists in the Peruvian Amazon ...

Though natural selection favours self-interest, humans are extraordinarily good at cooperating with one another. Why?

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River bank or bank account? How chatbots learned to make the quantum leap to context by training on billions of prompts ...

When Lars von Trier seeks applications for a ‘female girlfriend/muse’, a filmmaker puts forward her 72-year-old lesbian ...

Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions ...

In this eloquent lecture, the Italian theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli takes audiences on a journey to the edges of our understanding of time. Working from ideas explored in his book The ...

One in three parasitic species is in danger. Here’s why humans may need to power through the ‘ick’ to save them ...

is a research affiliate at the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, as well as an affiliate researcher at the Berggruen Institute’s Antikythera thinktank. His most recent ...