The US filmmaker John D Boswell (aka Melodysheep) is known for crafting meticulously researched CGI documentaries that, epic in both production and scope, probe the deep past and peer into the future.

In 2006, I published a book called Better Never to Have Been. I argued that coming into existence is always a serious harm. People should never, under any circumstance, procreate – a position called ...

[I intend] to make a philosophy like that of Aristotle, that is to say, to outline a theory so comprehensive that, for a long time to come, the entire work of human reason, in philosophy of every ...

Every week at the office, you and your fellow employees have meetings to discuss progress on group projects and to divide tasks efficiently. Perhaps in the evening, you go home and cook dinner with ...

is a philosopher who teaches at the University of Cambridge. She recently became the first philosopher to perform at Latitude Festival, and writes regularly for Quartz. We live out our lives amid a ...

Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame ...

The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them ...

Created to accompany an exhibition at the Computer History Museum in California, this nifty explainer from the video essayist Grant Sanderson (aka 3Blue1Brown) helps to demystify how large language ...

Two of Barcelona’s architectural masterpieces are as different as different could be. The Sagrada Família, designed by Antoni Gaudí, is only a few miles from the German Pavilion, built by Mies van der ...

‘Whose day isn’t gonna be better after watching a pink and yellow rosy maple moth fly in super-slow motion?’ You might think of moths primarily as the pesky creatures that get drawn to your lamplight ...

An update to Charles and Ray Eames’s film ‘Powers of Ten’ explores what we’ve learned about the Universe since 1977 ...

Plato once described the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope as ‘a Socrates gone mad!’ It’s a good comparison. Like Socrates, Diogenes gave the bird to respectable society. He undermined status and manners ...