Hoskins’s popularising study The Making of the English Landscape helped a post-war generation realise that the British ...

There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them?

All over Britain, shopping centres are closing down. Can these retail paradises be replaced by new public spaces?

Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for the ...

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Massimo Pigliucci is the author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press). His essays can be found at Rationally Speaking ...

Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her latest book, Sex in Crisis, has caused a furore in America, where she has been accused of ...

Martin Cohen is a British author. His most recent book is "The Ah-ha Moment: Exploring Philosophical Ideas through Jokes and Puzzles" ...