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To complete the perilous project his mother never finished, a filmmaker documents Indigenous resistance in war-torn Colombia ...

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When animals seem to grieve for their dead, such as staying with them for days, is it anthropomorphism or something more?

is associate professor of philosophy at Hamilton College in New York. She is the author of Thinking Through Food: A Philosophical Introduction (2019) and Awkwardness (2024).

is a PhD student in philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans and an editor at The Point magazine. ‘As they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her, ...

W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them? Takako Isayama, a 12-year-old congenital victim of Minamata disease, with her mother, ...

After years of insomnia, I threw off the effort to sleep and embraced the peculiar openness I found in the darkest hours Bright Light at Russell’s Corners (1946) by George Ault. Courtesy Smithsonian ...

As you almost certainly learned early on in your scientific education, species survive and perpetuate in large part due to their fitness for their environment. However, there’s more to evolution than ...