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For a young girl living in 1980s Tehran, the small intrigues of everyday life take centre stage against a backdrop of war ...

It’s a beautiful world … when you’re free’: two teens grapple with how to live an authentic life in this vintage short ...

The belief in witches is an almost universal feature of human societies. What does it reveal about our deepest fears?

Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly love ...

Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise ...

The Mormon state is seen as deeply homophobic. Yet, from polygamy to pride, Mormons themselves are a distinctly queer lot ...

After years of debate and contemplation, I’ve come to think a heretical form of Christianity might be true. Here’s why ...

Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right?

DNA is nature’s highly efficient mechanism for data storage. Now, scientists are taking note to address our storage crisis ...

A walk through the English countryside reveals tangible yet long-overlooked traces of a nomadic culture’s long presence ...

is a historian of medicine in the UK. He holds an MLitt and PhD from the University of Glasgow, and is a former Wellcome Trust Research Fellow. He is the author of Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, ...