Warren met his cancer diagnosis with tenacious optimism. But can positive thinking really affect the course of the disease?

The idea of nothing pushes at the limits of thought, spawning paradoxes that have long nourished art, philosophy, and science ...

Tattoos are often more than just ink on skin – they’re a declaration of identity and values. But what happens when the person changes, yet the ink remains? This question is at the centre of the US ...

Religious belief is often thought to evince a precarious kind of commitment, in which the degree of conviction is inversely proportional to correspondence with the facts. Exhibit A for this common ...

is a British poet, writer and explorer. His latest book is White Mountain: Real and Imagined Journeys in the Himalayas (2016), and he divides his time between the UK and Egypt.

After the dawn of life some 4 billion years ago, one of the most fascinating and mysterious turning points in the history of life on Earth is its leap from single-celled organisms to multicellularity ...

The sprawling stone ruins of Zimbabwe are deeply intertwined with its national identity. Indeed, the name ‘Zimbabwe’ itself is derived from a term meaning ‘houses of stone’. Due to colonial prejudices ...

Anyone who has learned a second language will have made an exhilarating (and yet somehow unsettling) discovery: there is never a one-to-one correspondence in meaning between the words and phrases of ...

A very basic yet, from our perspective, easy to overlook quality of the Universe is that everything is in motion, all the time. Even things that have united humanity across the ages and that we take ...

is a research fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection (2021) and The ...

is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

is assistant professor of philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.