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René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

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A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast ...

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

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How the ideas circulating among one noblewoman’s coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought ...

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe ...

Clayton Page Aldern is a data reporter at Grist. His writing has been published by The Guardian, The Atlantic and The Economist, among others, and he is the author of The Weight of Nature: How a ...