4 Feb 2013

A dose of space, and Carl Sagan to cure your Monday morning blues.

11 Nov 2012

Jack Smart, who has died aged 92, changed the course of contemporary philosophy.

30 Sep 2012

That question - "Why is there something rather than nothing?" - occupies the centre of Jim Holt's book, which is by turns a philosophical and scientific inquiry, written through a broadly personal...

1 Sep 2012

Is there a particularly French idea about l'amour? Political analyst Agnes Poirier thinks so.

29 Jul 2012

The Turin Horse
Janos Derzsi, Erika Bok, Mihaly Kosmos
Director: Bela Tarr

Artist Tsang Kin-wah hasn't held a solo show in Hong Kong since 2005, the year he won the Sovereign Asian Art Prize for one of the works he is still most closely identified with: repetitive...

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
by Michael Sandel
Allen Lane (e-book)

When your world seems to be falling apart, you can always count on someone telling you to look on the bright side. It's as if positivity is something you can summon at will.

There is no doubt that the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was a catastrophe for hundreds of thousands of people.

Wong Ling-oi, 13, St Stephen's Girls' College

Many people insist that the public should respect animal rights. I don't think so.

What I'm listening to: online radio station www.sky.fm. It's a classical jazz channel, and the rhythms it broadcasts really inspire my drawing.

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