Mathematicians and physicists often boast about their ‘Erdős number’, defined by their degrees of separation from him in ...

Whole regions of the world are now uninsurable, bringing radical uncertainty to the economy. How do we fix the problem?

A prominent architect of decolonial theory, his diagnosis of European colonial ills is both penetrating and flawed ...

This hand-painted stop motion animation recalls the textures of a family home demolished to make way for a widened road ...

Play with the physics of perception at Frank Oppenheimer’s Exploratorium in this captivating, Oscar-nominated short from 1974 ...

The Indian thinker Rammohun Roy believed that good governance must be close: distance made the British Empire cruel ...

Why Ilya Repin’s masterpiece of Ivan the Terrible, first banned in 1885, remains one of Russia’s most controversial paintings ...

A family swim, share meals and tell stories by a creek in Central Australia in a joyous celebration of much-needed rain ...

The psychologist Naomi Eisenberger describes herself as a mutt of a scientist. Never quite fitting the mould of the fields she studied – psychobiology, health psychology, neuroscience – she took an ...

From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity ...

At Wat Doi Kham, my local temple in Chiang Mai in Thailand, visitors come in their thousands every week. Bearing money and garlands of jasmine, the devotees prostrate themselves in front of a small ...

Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook remains shocking, necessary and imperfect – a dazzling experiment in living as a woman ...