Culture
15/01/2017 - 13:19
A demographic shift in the late 18th century meant socializing took precedence over studying
Thanks to everything from pop... →
03/01/2017 - 17:44
History shows that cities have tended to embrace international opportunities in waves and cycles. They rarely break out into global... →
19/12/2016 - 15:32
But perception can be deceptive, and memory can be unreliable; even this kind of direct knowledge is not certain. And there are kinds of... →
30/11/2016 - 15:25
Whether we are believers or not, none of us can fully escape the influence of religion in our culture. Religion is one of the oldest parts... →
04/11/2016 - 16:44
We are talking in the living room of his son Victor, who is a mathematician at the University of Oxford, during a flying visit from his... →
11/07/2016 - 14:49
The title of your book is The Inevitable. What does that mean, and why did you choose it?
It’s sort of slightly controversial because many... →
28/04/2016 - 17:16
Today, no great Western nation has a birthrate that will prevent the extinction of its native-born. By century’s end, other peoples and... →
06/04/2016 - 15:57
"That's the $64,000 question," says Jeffrey Schwartz at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, US. The problem arguably begins with... →
06/03/2016 - 15:24
The journey to love as we know it today began with sex, which was one of the first things life on Earth figured out how to do. Sex began as... →
25/02/2016 - 18:11
This raises a question, though. If humans rely so much on a culturally accumulated body of knowledge that they access by imitating others,... →
23/02/2016 - 14:18
So how did this ingenious academic manage it?
Well, intellectual though he was, with a personal library of some 50,000 books, Eco didn’t... →
04/01/2016 - 13:35
The first trend, and the more important of the two, is the one which guarantees that by leaving out the two key subjects mentioned above,... →