Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

Is time a property of the Universe? Yes, if you conceive of it as heat: a mind-boggling yet oddly comforting perspective ...

David’s handcrafted figurines pay tribute to cultural icons. His latest project takes on his greatest hero, his late brother ...

A jaunty song calls for greater appreciation of Indian wool, as imports undermine the livelihoods of local herders ...

An action-figure maker’s outsized tribute to his late brother ...

Rising far above the desert, the walls of these magnificent hills carry the ancient story of humanity’s creative spark ...

In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature ...

How do you teach a child reverence for nature? This filmmaker takes his son on a search for the ever-changing snow line ...

For the French philosopher Paul Virilio, technological development is inextricable from the idea of the accident. As he put it, each accident is ‘an inverted miracle… When you invent the ship, you ...

One of my favourite dinosaurs is the Stegosaurus, a monster from the late Jurassic (150 million years ago), noteworthy because of the diamond-like plates all the way down its back. Since this animal ...

In 1963, Martin Heidegger sat down for an interview with Bhikku Maha Mani, a Vietnamese-born Buddhist monk, radio presenter and great admirer of the reclusive and influential German philosopher. In ...