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Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

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

is professor and chair of global international relations at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is the founding director of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) and ...

Noah never reckoned with trinomials. Modern Creationists, grasping for footholds in the post-Darwinian world, maintain that Noah took 1,398 kinds of animal aboard his Ark, as the floodwaters gathered ...