Ascend steep cliffs to discover Ethiopia’s ancient churches carved into rock, still serving as places of worship today ...

In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with the distressing voice in her head ...

Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden ...

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The little-known painter who found beauty in bugs, transforming pests into wondrous creatures and works of art ...

Growing up in countercultural California, ‘enlightenment’ had real glamour. But decades of practice have changed my mind ...

The systems that make people unfree are deeply intertwined. This prison abolitionist dares to envision real alternatives ...

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe ...

Rather than being a cringey personal failing, awkwardness is a collective rupture – and a chance to rewrite the social script ...

Condemned to death by firing squad, French resistance fighters put pen to paper. Their dying words can teach us how to live ...

In the eyes of the Runa people, Western kids grow up indulged, over-mothered and incapable of facing outward to the world ...