Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return ...

Although the brain represents just 2 per cent of body weight, it consumes about 20 per cent of our energy at rest. Every ...

Warning: this film features rapidly flashing images that can be distressing to photosensitive viewers. Impromptu is at once a transfixing audiovisual experience and a whirlwind visual history. In the ...

The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly ...

The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?

Skadden, less hampered by the pretentions of its WASP competitors, decided to broaden its search. Black and Asian, ...

Between 1603 and 1868, Japan entered an era of unified rule and isolation known as the Edo period, named after the city of Edo – modern-day Tokyo – which was the seat of government. This TED-Ed ...

‘Years may wrinkle skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul’. After the death of his father, the US-based director and photographer Alex Lockett travelled to Okinawa, an island region in the ...

Pompeii is famous for being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which buried the once-thriving ancient Roman city under some 5 m of volcanic debris. With a dark irony, it was this ...

A sprawling tale of two Singapores, the short documentary Sandcastles draws connections between Singapore, Michigan – a 19th-century ghost town swallowed by sand following widespread deforestation – ...

By taking precautions to keep safe and stay healthy, most people clearly live their lives as though death is undesirable. But does that also suggest that an immortal existence – or something like it – ...