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 ...

In 1998, Indonesia was deep in crisis. With the country reeling from soaring inflation, mass unemployment and mounting unrest, tensions erupted into protests and riots that brought an end to the three ...

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Society will be much improved by loosening the stranglehold of top universities on the education of elites. But how?

When notes are grouped together, the result can sound resolved and pleasant, tense and harsh, or anywhere between. But what exactly makes tones played in unison consonant or dissonant, or sound ...

Human jobs in the future will be the ones that require emotional labour: currently undervalued and underpaid but invaluable ...