Essay/History of Ideas Why Spinoza still matters At a time of religious zealotry, Spinoza’s fearless defence of intellectual freedom is more timely than ever Steven Nadler
Essay/Neuroscience Freud the philosopher Before fathering psychoanalysis, Freud first slayed the dominant Cartesian intellectual tradition of mind-body dualism David Livingstone Smith
Video/Childhood & Adolescence What to make of a Riot Grrrl? A snapshot of feminism and high school in the 1990s 18 minutes
Video/Demography & Migration Amid massive urbanisation and modernisation, rural Japan persists in idiosyncratic corners 30 minutes
Essay/Human Evolution Sex makes babies As far as we can tell, no other animal knows this. Did our understanding of baby-making change the course of human history? Holly Dunsworth & Anne Buchanan
Video/Sports & Games How Gaelic sports became a cultural binding force in Ireland’s most diverse town 15 minutes
Idea/Death What are the ethical consequences of immortality technology? Francesca Minerva & Adrian Rorheim
Essay/Consciousness & Altered States Model hallucinations Psychedelics have a remarkable capacity to violate our ideas about ourselves. Is that why they make people better? Philip Gerrans & Chris Letheby
Essay/Work The quitting economy When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit Ilana Gershon
Essay/Evolution Aliens in our midst The ctenophore’s brain suggests that, if evolution began again, intelligence would re-emerge because nature repeats itself Douglas Fox
Essay/Beauty & Aesthetics The sea was never blue The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea? Maria Michela Sassi
Video/Cognition & Intelligence Why can concave surfaces look convex when viewed from overhead (and vice versa)? 4 minutes
Essay/History Agony in the agora Democracy, by nature, is a contest between clashing political desires. That is why the public square matters so much Saul Frampton
Video/Sports & Games Looking like time travellers from a bygone era, sumo wrestlers gather for a competition 3 minutes
Essay/Personality Indescribable you Can novelists or psychologists better capture the strange multitude of realities in every human self? Carlin Flora
Video/Philosophy of Science How LSD helped a scientist find beauty in a peculiar and overlooked form of life 6 minutes
Essay/Ethics The limits of tolerance A religious worldview cannot expect the same kinds of tolerance as racial, gender, or sexual identities. Here’s why Paul Russell
Video/Sports & Games With inspiring perseverance, Julio juggles late work nights with elite marathon training 9 minutes
Idea/Philosophy of Mind If I teleport from Mars, does the original me get destroyed? Charlie Huenemann
Essay/Evolution Aliens in our midst The ctenophore’s brain suggests that, if evolution began again, intelligence would re-emerge because nature repeats itself Douglas Fox
Video/Biology From egg to the air: 21 days of bee development condensed into one mesmerising minute 1 minutes
Essay/Beauty & Aesthetics The sea was never blue The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea? Maria Michela Sassi