Education

“Maybe it’s only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover.”

It is the first royal tomb to be found since King Tutankhaman’s over a century ago.

The annual list features 13 leaders who are working to create a more equal world.

In this week’s Mini Philosophy interview with Massimo Pigliucci, we see why the Stoics and Skeptics thought science was so important.

On a Sunday morning earlier this month, around 800 citizens of Pune gathered in the locality of Baner. The group walked along the Mula river for around 20 minutes, before settling down in a grove where it merged with the Ramnadi river.

Angela Merkel​ was 35 when the country in which she had established herself as a research scientist ceased to exist. Once that happened, the transition was instantaneous: her career in science ended and her career in politics began.

How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts.

Mikhail Lermontov’s Memory of Caucasus, 1838. Americans have long been invested in an imaginary story: that whiteness stems from the mountainous region between Eastern Europe and Western Asia known as the Caucasus.

In early February, Wheaton College, a well-known evangelical school outside of Chicago, made a seemingly innocuous post on social media, giving a shout-out to one of its own for getting a prestigious job. An alumnus, Russell Vought, had just been confirmed as the director of the U.S.

The statistics​ for the decline in people working on the land in Europe are stark. In Remembering Peasants, Patrick Joyce reports that in 1950 nearly half the population of Spain were agricultural workers. By 1980 the figure was 14.5 per cent; by 2020 it was less than 5 per cent.