Video/Design & Fashion Not all paper is created equal: an 800-year-old tradition of making it by hand 6 minutes
Essay/Design & Fashion What do clothes say? Clothes can be forms of thought as articulate as a poem or equation. Why then does philosophy like to dress them down? Shahidha Bari
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Design & Fashion How beards put a brave face on threatened masculinity Christopher R Oldstone-Moore
Video/Architecture & Landscape Why humour and a complex character are as important in architecture as in people 3 minutes
Video/Design & Fashion Rustic automata – a world built out of spare parts powered by solar energy 9 minutes
Video/History of Science Why data visualisation experts talk about truth, beauty, revelation and respect 8 minutes
Video/The Home What connects flying discs and good coffee? A lively mind fascinated by physics 6 minutes
Video/Beauty & Aesthetics Discover the secret geometry of beauty – the mathematics of form and pattern 4 minutes
Video/Progress & Modernity ‘Human might, majesty and mayhem’: a visual time capsule from 1965 13 minutes
Video/War & Conflict Inspired by toys, an Afghani inventor’s low-cost solution to landmine threat 4 minutes
EXCLUSIVE Video/Childhood & Adolescence ‘Museum’ should rhyme with ‘amusement’: the credo of a toy collector 20 minutes
EXCLUSIVE Video/Memoir An empire built on playing house: how imagination can change your situation 15 minutes
Essay/Design & Fashion Losing the thread Older than bronze and as new as nanowires, textiles are technology — and they have remade our world time and again Virginia Postrel
Video/Design & Fashion How collotype printing, an outmoded technology, helps preserve Japan’s heritage 10 minutes
EXCLUSIVE Video/Beauty & Aesthetics This is the final resting place of your cast-off clothing 14 minutes
Video/Love & Friendship Two bickering elderly sisters reveal tantalising glimpses of vivid lives 13 minutes
Video/Self-Improvement A man with polio has been building a home-made helicopter for over 50 years 10 minutes
Video/Design & Fashion A deadpan treatise on the craft of pencil-sharpening from a master artisan 9 minutes
Video/Sports & Games The magical place in France where spinning wood tops are still made by hand 4 minutes
Essay/Architecture & Landscape Tech aesthetics Twitter has log cabins and Facebook has graffiti — what do the offices of tech giants tell us about the future of work? Kate Losse
Essay/Cultures & Languages Is nothing sacred? Every culture looks for creative inspiration to other cultures, but is there a point when this is just outright theft? Nabeelah Jaffer
Video/Progress & Modernity Selling McDonald’s in China: an ad exec reflects on food porn and consumerism 14 minutes
Video/Law & Justice An inmate defends his title in Scotland’s prison hairdressing competition 30 minutes
Video/Subcultures To craftsmen, a motorcycle’s inner workings have their own kind of beauty 15 minutes