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For the Iranian Australian musician Hamed Sadeghi, one strum of the tar is all it takes to echo millennia of Persian history. The guitar-like...
Listen to this essay It took five ill-fated conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre before the Vietnamese philosopher Trần Đức Thảo finally broke with...
The biomedical animator Drew Berry is known for his dazzling visualisations of biological processes that unfold on microscopic scales. As...
Listen to this essay ‘The initial weeks of this turmoil were pure hell. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, and I had burning in my mouth, throat,...
Listen to this essay In 1894, a German archaeologist named Herr G Heim made a groundbreaking discovery. On the island of Cyprus, he excavated a...
Listen to this essay When summer arrived along Florida’s coastline in 2023, marine scientists nervously watched and waited as seawater temperatures...
Migration can feel liberating and isolating at once: a new country offers openness and possibility, yet the sense of being an outsider rarely...
In his ongoing Children’s Games series, the Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist Francis Alÿs documents the diverse games children play across the...
Listen to this essay ‘I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that...
Since the large-scale expansion of the Russo-Ukrainian war in February 2022, Russian citizens have become increasingly isolated from the Western...
Listen to this essay If planes fell from the sky with the regularity of deaths due to medical error, there would be outrage, inquiries and sweeping...
Listen to this essay In 1705, the Anglo-Dutch physician and philosopher Bernard Mandeville anonymously published a poem called The Grumbling Hive:...
Subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the bottom right of the video player. Museums across the globe have come under...
After moving from Brazil to Canada, the animator Raquel Sancinetti befriended a woman named Madeleine who, aged 102, was 67 years her senior....
In this captivating short film from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Indonesian conservation biologist Yoki Hadiprakarsa and the US wildlife...
Listen to this essay If you had to nominate the slowest, longest-living organisms on Earth, what would you picture? Among the vertebrates, some...
Listen to this essay In the United States and elsewhere, it’s often taken for granted that the Catholic Church is a conservative institution with...
Listen to this essay Recently, I visited a part of my neighbourhood where there’s a park. The green space was hived off by concrete walls, iron...