The belief in witches is an almost universal feature of human societies. What does it reveal about our deepest fears?

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Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise ...

After years of debate and contemplation, I’ve come to think a heretical form of Christianity might be true. Here’s why ...

A walk through the English countryside reveals tangible yet long-overlooked traces of a nomadic culture’s long presence ...

is a historian of medicine in the UK. He holds an MLitt and PhD from the University of Glasgow, and is a former Wellcome Trust Research Fellow. He is the author of Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, ...

The way that the Canadian puppeteer Ronnie Burkett tells it, it was an aimless, fortuitous dive into the ‘P’ volume of an encyclopaedia as a child that led him to his life’s work. Produced on the ...