A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must ...

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq ...

Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda ...

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In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others?

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us how human reason is so much more ...

A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed?

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Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind ...

I am at the airport gate waiting to depart, watching passengers hurry past with rolling suitcases and paper cups of coffee. A small boy sits very still beside his mother. He holds an iPad close to his ...

This semester, my students are learning about four polymaths who shaped Islamic science: al-Biruni, Alhazen, Avicenna and al-Khwarizmi. Their circumstances could hardly have been more different: one ...

Devised by the late US philosopher John Searle in 1980, the ‘Chinese room’ thought experiment is one of the best-known challenges to the idea that programmed computers could be conscious. This ...