Tom Chatfield

If you’re lucky enough to have several million dollars more than you need, what should you do with this money? […]

Signals are information worth attending to. Noise is interference you ought to ignore. When I’m talking to you on the […]

In the lead-up to the general election in the UK, everyone was talking about property. In the crowded south of […]

“What we can know, and what we can understand, is so influenced by our location in time that it is […]

What’s your view on free will? Do you have one – and, if so, how much confidence do you have […]

  “Isn’t it true to say that … Novelty is mistaken for Progress?” – Frank Lloyd Wright     It’s […]

I recently visited Japan for the first time. When I got back, and people asked me what I had found […]

When I was growing up in the 1980s, my family and I sometimes played a board game called ‘The Game […]

The south of England doesn’t get particularly cold in winter, but temperatures do sometimes lurk below freezing for a few […]

When it comes to measuring the vastness of outer space, you need to talk about time in order to talk […]

“How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and […]

In his most recent novel, Seveneves, sci-fi author Neal Stephenson coins an intriguing term: “Amistics”. Amistics describes “the choices that […]

Earth has lost half of its wild animals in the last forty years. What does it mean to be philosophical […]

“The essence of bullshit,” argued philosopher Harry Frankfurt in his 2005 book On Bullshit, “is not that it is false […]

Here’s one of my favourite neologisms: “hangry.” It’s a punning portmanteau. To be hangry is to be angry because you’re […]

In Tino Sehgal’s installation of his artwork This Progress, each visitor walked into the bottom of The Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda […]