Idea/Stories & Literature This is the Muslim tradition of sci-fi and speculative fiction Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
Essay/Computing & Artificial Intelligence fAIth The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why? Beth Singler
Essay/Technology & the Self Natural, shmatural Mother Nature might be lovely, but moral she is not. She doesn’t love us or want what’s best for us Molly Hodgdon
Essay/Meaning & the Good Life End-times for humanity Humanity is more technologically powerful than ever before, and yet we feel ourselves to be increasingly fragile. Why? Claire Colebrook
Idea/Ecology & Environmental Sciences Polar bears need to be fat, and they can’t be without sea ice Thea Bechshoft
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Consciousness & Altered States The mathematics of mind-time The special trick of consciousness is being able to project action and time into a range of possible futures Karl Friston
Essay/Stories & Literature Sands of time The North Sea is rich in signs of what made the modern world. It's also a monument to what awaits us in the Anthropocene David Farrier
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Internet & Communication What’s so new about news? The interesting thing about news has never been its truth or falsehood but how it explodes our sense of onrushing time Arthur Asseraf
Idea/Rituals & Celebrations How to get your kicks in the hermit kingdom of North Korea Laya Maheshwari
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
Essay/Computing & Artificial Intelligence Raising good robots We already have a way to teach morals to alien intelligences: it's called parenting. Can we apply the same methods to robots? Regina Rini
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Cognition & Intelligence Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ Abeba Birhane
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Values & Beliefs ‘Free speech’ is a blunt instrument. Let’s break it up Robert Simpson
Essay/Law & Justice The legal imagination Hypotheticals, fantastical beings, and a fictional omnibus: legal reasoning is made supple by its use of the imagination Maksymilian Del Mar
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Computing & Artificial Intelligence The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines Ben Medlock
Essay/Subcultures Going underground Subterranean metaphors have been a powerful tool of political resistance. Today, is there anywhere left to hide? Terence Renaud
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Cognition & Intelligence Intelligence: a history Intelligence has always been used as fig-leaf to justify domination and destruction. No wonder we fear super-smart robots Stephen Cave
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Economics The great cryptocurrency heist Blockchain enthusiasts crave a world without bankers, lawyers or fat-cat executives. There's just one problem: trust E J Spode
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/History of Technology What the teleprompter tells us about truth, Trump and speech Nana Ariel
Idea/Nature & Environment Winter is a time of regeneration: we’ll miss it when it’s gone Bernd Brunner
Essay/Progress & Modernity The makeover trap From transgender celebrities to fitness fads, pop culture loves reinvention. But the drive to ‘find yourself’ has a dark side Michael Lovelock
Idea/History of Science The missing fossils matter as much as the ones we have found Adrian Currie & Derek Turner
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Metaphysics Unspeakable things Life's most meaningful experiences can leave us tongue-tied. What can be said, let alone understood, about the unsayable? Silvia Jonas