Opening at the scene of a picnic in a Chicago park, then gradually zooming out to encompass a view 100 million light years away before magnifying down again to a single proton, this classic 1977 short ...

How much power should a promise hold, and when – if ever – should a promise be broken? In this brief animation, Sarah Stroud, the director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North ...

is associate professor of philosophy at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. At 8:30 am sharp, a white van pulls up to Boone Hall, where the Outsiders are huddled in their black shirts, ...

is emeritus curator of biological anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago, a member of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, and academic guest of the Institute of ...

is a professor, writer and filmmaker at Stony Brook University. She publishes widely on ecofeminism, nuclear issues, toxics and climate. Presently, she is producing and directing the documentary film ...

English spelling is ridiculous. Sew and new don’t rhyme. Kernel and colonel do. When you see an ough, you might need to read it out as ‘aw’ (thought), ‘ow’ (drought), ‘uff’ (tough), ‘off’ (cough), ‘oo ...

‘Double-fault!’… ‘Ju-ust out!’ Generally a calm man, I throw my tennis racquet against the thick green court curtains with disgust… Akh, the torture of tennis. I make a dejected approach to shake ...

is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. His new book Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant will be published in October 2025.

is a research fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection (2021) and The ...

is assistant professor of philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Fitting Things Together: Coherence and the Demands of Structural Rationality (2021).

is professor of microbiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. His books include Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms (1997), co-edited with Martin ...