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Aesthetics
These clocks burn powdered incense along a pre-measured paths, each representing a different amount of time.
Your whole body is part of the instrument.
A photographer captured Bern’s eclectic and charming feline structures.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
How one man's divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.
One from New Guinea rose to the top in a recent study.
At this event, you’ll be around to hear the eulogy.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
Virtually anyone can now create convincing deepfakes. That doesn't mean you should.
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
Video games matter. Their continued technological and artistic development is reshaping the way we satisfy our ancient need to tell stories.
Unlock the full potential of your creativity with holistic detachment. This is the way of the editor.
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
Zen masters often have strikingly different ideas about how to live and attain enlightenment.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
Climate activists' brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
Like his "Mona Lisa," Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Who should be compensated?
Catfish taste with their whole bodies - and that’s just one way animals sense the world totally differently than us.
People who rate themselves as highly knowledgeable about cats are more likely to interact with cats in ways they don't like.
The engineer working on Google's AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn't mean CGI is always used to good effect.
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
Mathematics and religion both embody awe-inspiring, eternal truths.
John Templeton Foundation