Essay/Childhood & Adolescence The wanderer My grandfather was a legend – a holy vagabond whose life spanned India’s 20th century. Why did I let him elude me? Samanth Subramanian
Essay/Work The future is emotional Human jobs in the future will be the ones that require emotional labour: currently undervalued and underpaid but invaluable Livia Gershon
Video/Life Stages Harlem’s over-55s synchronised swimming team thinks ageing is better in the pool 4 minutes
Video/Demography & Migration The island where 50 million crabs roam free and refugees are trapped in limbo 21 minutes
Essay/Quantum Theory Quantum common sense Despite its confounding reputation, quantum mechanics both guides and helps explain human intuition Philip Ball
Video/Nature & Environment Preventing the all-consuming sound pollution of modern life starts with listening to nature 10 minutes
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Stories & Literature So I exaggerate a little – am I wrong to jazz up my stories? Andrea Askowitz
Essay/Cognition & Intelligence How totalism works The brainwashing methods of isolation, engulfment and fear can lead anyone to a cult. I should know – I was in one Alexandra Stein
Essay/Gender & Sexuality The orgasm cure What if we could expand ecstasy, reduce stress and lift depression, all by delaying and extending orgasm? Peter von Ziegesar
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Economics Conspicuous consumption is over. It’s all about intangibles now Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Essay/Political Philosophy Theory from the ruins The Frankfurt school argued that reason is dangerous, mass culture deadening, and the Enlightenment a disaster. Were they right? Stuart Walton
Essay/Cognition & Intelligence How totalism works The brainwashing methods of isolation, engulfment and fear can lead anyone to a cult. I should know – I was in one Alexandra Stein
Video/Cosmology The Sun – our steady, reliable companion – tells a very different story up close 4 minutes
Essay/Politics & Government The bloodstained leveller Throughout history, plagues and wars have left greater equality in their wake. Can we get there again without violence? Walter Scheidel
Video/Love & Friendship From a 77-year relationship to a first date – a brisk, cheery survey of love 3 minutes
Essay/Gender & Sexuality The orgasm cure What if we could expand ecstasy, reduce stress and lift depression, all by delaying and extending orgasm? Peter von Ziegesar
Video/Travel Castles, croquet and kilts: on the tour bus from China through the photo ops of Britain 10 minutes
Essay/Cognition & Intelligence Had a good think lately? Not busy-work, ticking off to-do lists or keeping-up-with-stuff. Just sitting. And thinking. Is it so hard? André Spicer
Essay/Computing & Artificial Intelligence fAIth The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why? Beth Singler
Video/Meaning & the Good Life Late in life, Fred finds joy – and a ‘rhythm in all things’ – through tap dance 6 minutes
Essay/Bioethics Which lives matter most? Thinking about children who are not yet born confronts us with the question of our ethical obligations to future people Dominic Wilkinson & Keyur Doolabh