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

Then, one day, someone challenged me on the term. I was in a staff meeting with my colleague Callum, himself the survivor of a brain injury from a car accident. He described how, that morning, a ...

A great wave of desire for more self-sufficiency is sweeping over the planet. Donald Trump has declared the ‘economic independence’ of the United States and seems to be trying to excise the US from ...

Derived from iron-rich rocks, red ochre is humanity’s oldest known pigment, with a discovery in a cave in Zambia believed to date back between 350,000 and 400,000 years. For archaeologists, it serves ...