Culture
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Future of technology
Artificial ‘creativity’ is unstoppable. Grappling with its ethics is up to us
23 minutes
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Design and fashion
Refined towards imperfection – a ceramic artist recreates a rare Korean treasure
15 minutes
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Wellbeing
Through a poetic account of childhood trauma, one woman reclaims her past
28 minutes
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Politics and government
‘Without a poster, you don’t exist!’ – on the curious political banners of Mumbai
20 minutes
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Art
Milk, pity and power
Since antiquity, artists have depicted a perverse scene of a daughter breastfeeding her aged father. What does it mean?
Margie Orford
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Language and linguistics
The problem with English
Is Earth’s most-spoken language a living ‘gift’ or a many-headed ‘monster’? Both views distract us from the real dilemma
Mario Saraceni
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Earth science and climate
A biologist on the sorrows of documenting the Great Salt Lake’s collapse
6 minutes
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Design and fashion
Household items are reborn in a ‘visual symphony of everyday objects’
11 minutes
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Music
As a pianist strikes a chord, visualisations of his notes appear in real time
5 minutes
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Thinkers and theories
Jeremy Bentham was consumed by creating a perfect prison. Here’s the result
4 minutes
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Global history
The strange journey of the Parthenon Marbles to the British Museum
10 minutes
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Music
Give the drummer some
As AI drum machines embrace humanising imperfections, what does this mean for ‘real’ drummers and the soul of music?
Jack Stilgoe
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Animals and humans
Laura fights to protect the magnificence of wild horses running free
6 minutes
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Film and visual culture
The old-time cinema experience endures in a quiet corner of Japan
5 minutes
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Architecture
The radically impractical 18th-century architect whose ideas on beauty endure
19 minutes
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Making
From log to Go board – the world’s oldest game, made the old-fashioned way
20 minutes
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Stories and literature
The key to a vampire’s immortality? Meeting the anxieties of the moment
15 minutes
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Mental health
Under the mkone tree
When I returned to Kenya, where I grew up, I found biomedicine and traditional medicine in conversation about mental health
Priya Basil
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Sports and games
The brutality and beauty of the West African martial art of ‘dambe’
15 minutes
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Biology
Flicker through the eclectic beauty and biological diversity of 2,400 leaves
3 minutes
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Art
The female Abstract Expressionists of New York shook the world of art
15 minutes
essay
Deep time
The Rift
Splitting the African continent, it is the only place where our human story can be read continuously from the very start
Tristan McConnell
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Biography and memoir
My blackness
At times I’ve tried to escape it. Other times I’ve embraced it. But at all times, people have attempted to define me by it
Colin Grant
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Archaeology
From Roman pots to glass eyes, the shore of the river Thames teems with surprises
8 minutes