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“There is no time for imagination, religious or otherwise. We need to act now!” an irritated scientist told me during a workshop on climate change and religion in 2024. Contrary to the tone of his comment, this scientist was not dismissing religion as being marginal to tackling climate change, but…

That’s the way to fulfil your goals and have fun in life, writes Simon May

Why did the professor get divorced, remarry, but allow her former husband to remain in the house? In her brilliant new book, Open Socrates, she makes the case for an intellectually honest life

In one study, nearly half of participants left alone for 15 minutes with no stimulation chose to have an electric shock

Homer’s Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the broad scenario of the Trojan war, triggered by the Trojan prince Paris’s abduction of the Greek beauty Helen, “the face that launched a thousand ships”.

Five dead and about 1,500 buildings destroyed in the city’s most destructive blaze on record to date

We took thirsty chugs from the tall glasses. Surely this ‘water’ belonged in a biohazard chamber, not our mouths

The best books for newly retired people to read for inspiration and entertainment.

The Nobel prize winner pushes at the veil between this world and the next in the immersive tale of a solitary fisherman

The singing blows the roof off in this magnificently fun production of Dave Malloy’s musical, based on a section of War and Peace

Events in a US court reveal a story that rivals HBO’s Succession with a patriarch’s waning control, sibling rivalries and a media empire at stake