Video/Nature & Environment Preventing the all-consuming sound pollution of modern life starts with listening to nature 10 minutes
Essay/Beauty & Aesthetics Against flow In the myth of flow, the performer soars when the music starts. But it's grit and self-analysis until the very last bar Barbara Gail Montero
Video/Beauty & Aesthetics Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which is the fairest rectangle of them all? 2 minutes
Video/Mathematics A brilliant ‘geometric ballet’ of sound, shape and symmetry on the theme of 180° 5 minutes
Video/Stories & Literature How E E Cummings’s most famous love poem reaches towards transcendence of self 9 minutes
Video/Architecture & Landscape Light, geometry and symbolism: how Jean Nouvel’s architecture reimagines culture 15 minutes
Video/Dance & Theatre Stephen Fry loathes dancing. To understand better, see it performed – in dance 2 minutes
Video/History of Ideas Why Socrates believed that sexual desire is the first step towards righteousness 2 minutes
volume_up play_arrow pause 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/Stories & Literature Simplicity or style: what makes a sentence a masterpiece? Jenny Davidson
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
Video/Architecture & Landscape Frank Lloyd Wright on why architecture should be about ideas and ideals 6 minutes
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Sports & Games Sport is not just about athleticism: beauty matters too Emily Ryall
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Design & Fashion How beards put a brave face on threatened masculinity Christopher R Oldstone-Moore
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Art The history of ugliness shows that there is no such thing Gretchen E Henderson
Idea/Beauty & Aesthetics Bucket lists are a good way to ruin the experience of nature Tom Winterbottom
ORIGINAL Video/History of Ideas Music is marvellous, but not mysterious: an interview with Lydia Goehr 6 minutes
Video/Philosophy of Science Richard Feynman on why science adds beauty in the Universe: it does not subtract 5 minutes
Video/Beauty & Aesthetics The brevity and beauty of Yeats’s verses reveal poetry’s enduring significance 13 minutes
ORIGINAL Video/Beauty & Aesthetics Why do audiences thrill to the negative emotions of horror fiction? 6 minutes
Video/Beauty & Aesthetics Discover the secret geometry of beauty – the mathematics of form and pattern 4 minutes
ORIGINAL Video/Philosophy of Religion How wonder – the linchpin of inspiration and inquiry – makes humans unique 4 minutes