Essay/Work Stupefied How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door André Spicer
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Cultures & Languages Street talk People who can switch between street dialects and standard language might have the same cognitive advantage as bilinguals Michael Erard
Video/Ecology & Environmental Sciences How the return of just 66 wolves rejuvenated Yellowstone’s entire ecosystem 5 minutes
Video/Childhood & Adolescence A monk dedicates himself to giving unwanted children the childhood he never had 40 minutes
Idea/Childhood & Adolescence How summer camps and Scout groups turn children into citizens Benjamin Jordan
Essay/Beauty & Aesthetics It is and it isn’t Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is not just a radical kind of art. It’s a philosophical dialetheia: a contradiction that is true Damon Young Graham Priest
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Computing & Artificial Intelligence Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex Walter Vannini
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Stories & Literature Books for life There is something deeply revealing about the books one truly loves in childhood and adolescence Adam Gidwitz
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Ethics The case against pets A morally just world would have no pets, no aquaria, no zoos. No fields of sheep, no barns of cows. That’s true animal rights Gary L Francione Anna E Charlton
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Internet & Communication And their eyes glazed over My college students are never entirely present in class, addicted to texts and tech. Is there any hope left for learning? Joelle Renstrom
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Sleep & Dreams Dreams and revelations The world’s great religions and spiritual journeys emerged from dreams and visions. Neurochemistry tells us how Patrick McNamara
Essay/Religion Religion without belief Most Japanese reject religious belief while embracing multiple forms of ritual practice. Are they religious or secular? Christopher Kavanagh
Video/Sports & Games Life as a young referee: you get berated on the pitch; at home, mother does it too 17 minutes
Essay/Law & Justice What kind of citizen was he? Conventional wisdom sees Socrates as a martyr for free speech, but he accepted his death sentence for a different cause Josiah Ober
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/History of Science Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious Christopher Graney
Video/History of Technology The last day of hot metal press before computers come in at The New York Times 29 minutes
Essay/Mood & Emotion A theory of creepiness A bear chasing you is simply scary but a guy with a big mouse’s head can give you the creeps. What’s the difference? David Livingstone Smith
Video/Family Life ‘Space to grow’: on being young, anxious and American in a Zen Buddhist family 12 minutes
Essay/Religion Religion without belief Most Japanese reject religious belief while embracing multiple forms of ritual practice. Are they religious or secular? Christopher Kavanagh
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Law & Justice How US prisons violate three principles of criminal justice Judith Lichtenberg
Video/Social Psychology How gang violence is American violence: it shows alienation at all social levels 5 minutes
Essay/Physics Taming the quantum spooks Reconciling Einstein with quantum mechanics may require abandoning the notion that cause always precedes effect Huw Price Ken Wharton
Video/Politics & Government In the US, linking guns to owners is, by design, a convoluted and absurd process 7 minutes
Essay/History of Technology Getting things moving The most important moments in invention are sometimes the imaginative leaps – even when they turn out to be dead-ends Brian Clegg