Society

A catchy tune explains the world’s ‘isms’ – according to your mum doing the laundry

5 minutes

Forging a cello from pieces of wood demands its own form of virtuosity

27 minutes

A Swedish expat in the Philippines wonders: what’s up with people sleeping at work?

14 minutes

Does capitalism make ‘non-playable characters’ of us all? An uncanny exploration

21 minutes

Battling implicit bias

Training is a cheap solution to a hard problem. It is the systems that allow for biased behaviour that need to change

Jeffrey To

Disengage

Modern life subjects us to all-consuming demands. That’s why we should reflect on what it means to step away from it all

David J Siegel

Freedom at work

There is always a demand for more jobs. But what makes a job good? For that, Immanuel Kant has an answer

Tyler Re

Lessons from the foragers

Hunter-gatherers don’t live in an economic idyll but their deep appreciation of rest puts industrialised work to shame

Vivek V Venkataraman

From log to Go board – the world’s oldest game, made the old-fashioned way

20 minutes

How the world’s harshest lockdown hit India’s millions of migrant workers

27 minutes