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 ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

is the Anne and George L Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee ...

Imagine a planet on the far side of the galaxy. We will never interact with it. We will never see it. What happens there is irrelevant to us, now and for the conceivable future. What would you hope ...

is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He is also chair ...