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 […]

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

“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 […]