How much power should a promise hold, and when – if ever – should a promise be broken? In this brief animation, Sarah Stroud, the director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North ...

applies brain research to training horses and riders. She has a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and for 23 years taught the neuroscience of perception, language, memory, and ...

is emeritus curator of biological anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago, a member of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, and academic guest of the Institute of ...

is a professor, writer and filmmaker at Stony Brook University. She publishes widely on ecofeminism, nuclear issues, toxics and climate. Presently, she is producing and directing the documentary film ...

The US filmmaker Neil Halloran is known for short documentaries that combine illuminating data visualisation with powerful storytelling. In his latest work, The Plea, Halloran explores how smallpox ...

Western philosophers have not, on the whole, regarded Buddhist thought with much enthusiasm. As a colleague once said to me: ‘It’s all just mysticism.’ This attitude is due, in part, to ignorance. But ...

English spelling is ridiculous. Sew and new don’t rhyme. Kernel and colonel do. When you see an ough, you might need to read it out as ‘aw’ (thought), ‘ow’ (drought), ‘uff’ (tough), ‘off’ (cough), ‘oo ...

‘Double-fault!’… ‘Ju-ust out!’ Generally a calm man, I throw my tennis racquet against the thick green court curtains with disgust… Akh, the torture of tennis. I make a dejected approach to shake ...

is a lecturer in psychology at Liverpool Hope University in the UK. Imagine that someone you care about is procrastinating in advance of a vital exam. If he fails the test, he will not be able to go ...

is assistant professor of aesthetics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows. She is the author of The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores ...

is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. His new book Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant will be published in October 2025.

is a research fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection (2021) and The ...