What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about the world, or a need to dominate it?

What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself ...

Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome ...

Praying is a cognitive practice full of problem-solving resources. You can learn from it even if you don’t want to do it ...

In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling: Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, ...

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...

We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US ...

There is some other type of beauty that is not visual,’ he explained to us in an interview. ‘I’m not sure what it is. Perhaps ...