This short documentary is an oddly endearing portrait of Torrington, a hamlet in Alberta, Canada, and the institution at its heart: the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum. Opened in 1996, the tourist ...

Overgeneralising has a bad rap. It seems an obvious, if understandable, mistake to generalise beyond what our evidence supports. A child playing in the park may assume, based on their experiences of ...

This video essay from the YouTube channel Kings and Things explores the intricate history and unique architecture of what’s widely considered to be the oldest surviving Buddhist temple in Europe: ...

is a sociologist of science based at the University of Sheffield in the UK, who has written on contemporary biomedical science, the alcohol industry and public health, and fringe physics. His latest ...

Imagine someone in Harare, Zimbabwe, turning to a large language model (LLM) for life advice, as many increasingly do: ‘I’ve been offered a promotion with a significant raise,’ she writes. ‘But it ...

For the widely exhibited US artist Ani Liu, the body is a site of mystery and data in equal measure. Drawing on a background that spans art, design and biotechnology, she works with what she calls ...