Freedom over death makes it possible for dying to more fully reflect our selves. And a shorter life sometimes is a better reflection of what we care about, and thereby has greater integrity, than a ...

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them ...

Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope ...

A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast ...

An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe ...

Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music ...

The powerful short documentary Blue Room observes individuals incarcerated in two prisons in the Pacific Northwest as they participate in an experimental programme that allows them to take in tranquil ...