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The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life ...

What is a German museum doing with a Kikuyu artefact it doesn’t know anything about? A journey to Kenya for some answers ...

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‘There is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.’ From Prejudices (1920) by H L Mencken There has never been a problem facing mankind more complex than ...

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 ...

is an economist at a financial institution in Hong Kong. He has degrees in philosophy and economics from the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. He writes and illustrates a series of ...

An intricate system of roads connected the furthest reaches of the Roman Empire, which at its height in the 2nd century CE spanned modern-day Algeria, Egypt, Turkey and England. A collaboration ...

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Scientific motherhood’ promised to create high standards for child-rearing. But it’s really a system designed to police women ...

Two women – one aged 35, the other 102 – become friends. This is what the road trip they can’t take would look like ...

A slight shift in Cleopatra’s beauty, and the Roman Empire unravels. You miss your train, and an unexpected encounter changes the course of your life. A butterfly alights from a tree in Michoacán, ...