For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t ...

Glimpse into the daily life of a female shaman who hosts ayahuasca ceremonies for tourists in the Peruvian Amazon ...

Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions ...

One in three parasitic species is in danger. Here’s why humans may need to power through the ‘ick’ to save them ...

In this eloquent lecture, the Italian theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli takes audiences on a journey to the edges of our understanding of time. Working from ideas explored in his book The ...

Demands to recognise the ‘right of a state to exist’ ring from op-ed pages to US Congressional committee rooms. This demand is most frequently encountered in the context of Israel and the framing of ...

In this uncommonly inventive short, Theresa Tomi Faison, an artist and filmmaker based in Baltimore, Maryland, puts her own unique spin on the problematic concept of the female muse in art. After ...

My psychoanalyst’s consulting room was brown and functional. There wasn’t much inside it and its walls were bare aside from Claude Monet’s The Poppy Field near Argenteuil (1873). It shows a woman in ...