It was a rust bucket, sure, but this car delivered the most precious good to a group of friends in 1980s Poland: freedom ...

While their stories are distinct, overlapping themes of loneliness, agony and elaborate mental escapes run throughout. Beyond making a forceful case against the use of solitary confinement, the film ...

Light is one aspect of the Universe that, for most people, holds a deep and noticeable value in everyday life, helping them ...

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

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

Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people – including politicians and, yes, even presidents – publicly express doubts about the validity of scientific findings. Meanwhile, scientific ...

‘It’s natural,’ says the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ‘to think that time can be represented by a line.’ We imagine the past stretching in a line behind us, the future stretching in an unseen ...

You notice an ant struggling in a puddle of water. Their legs thrash as they fight to stay afloat. You could walk past, or you could take a moment to tip a leaf or a twig into the puddle, giving them ...

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

is department chair and professor of history of philosophy at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is currently finalising his latest book Socialising Minds: Intersubjectivity in Early ...