Death
Rat race to the afterlife
So you’ve spent your life accumulating money – you’ve worked hard, invested wisely; every waking moment has been devoted to moneymaking. Well, almost every…
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Society & Culture
The classroom of the future
Here’s one of my favourite neologisms: “hangry.” It’s a punning portmanteau. To be hangry is to be angry because you’re hungry; a phenomenon that…
Ideas to change your life
The call to your own true adventure
Think, for a moment, of who you are today, right now, reading this wherever you are – waiting in an airport, sprawled across a…
Ideas to change your life
News from nowhere: Destined for dopamine
In a laboratory at Runwell Hospital near London, researcher Kathleen Montagu discovered something that explains a lot about you, and plenty about your friends…
Environment
Client Earth
ClientEarth is an environmental law charity that you founded 12 years ago, now with offices in London, Brussels, Warsaw, Berlin, and Beijing. On the…
Interviews
13 questions: Mr John Clarke
1. The question you'd most like to ask others? What are you doing? 2. How free are you? I’ll be free in about 20…
Ideas to change your life
Making the hamster love its wheel
If you ever visit Copenhagen, you’ll probably find yourself trekking out to Langelinie to the statue of The Little Mermaid, and you’ll probably feel…
Literature & Writing
Heraclitus on talk radio
Image: Democritus and Heraclitus, Richard Gaywood, ca. 1630-1680, The Met Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXVI: Change. Once more,…
Ideas to change your life
Work less, live more
Why do we work so much? Why do we even work at all? For a great chunk of human history it was a simple…
Art
Looking forward, looking back
Tell us a little about your background as an artist. When did you start illustrating? I went to school for graphic design in the…
Happiness
Hiding acoustically
Aren’t you excited about the party you’re at, what, with all the small talk and the mingling and the catching up on life and…
Environment
The pale orange dot
Look up and you see the colour that defines our world. At least, our world today. It’s a blue that blankets us from birth…