Crafting each frame by hand, an animator paints the story of an Olympic swimmer’s return after surviving the Holocaust ...

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Although the brain represents just 2 per cent of body weight, it consumes about 20 per cent of our energy at rest. Every ...

The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly ...

Take a kaleidoscopic journey through the early history of film, inspired by an enduring fascination with motion and form ...

The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?

To the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, technology was far more than just tools that people develop, but systems through which the world both reveals itself to us and shapes the way we see it. For ...

Between 1603 and 1868, Japan entered an era of unified rule and isolation known as the Edo period, named after the city of Edo – modern-day Tokyo – which was the seat of government. This TED-Ed ...

Pompeii is famous for being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which buried the once-thriving ancient Roman city under some 5 m of volcanic debris. With a dark irony, it was this ...

By taking precautions to keep safe and stay healthy, most people clearly live their lives as though death is undesirable. But does that also suggest that an immortal existence – or something like it – ...

In his short film Papers (1991), the Japanese artist Yoshinao Satoh assembles thousands of newspaper images into a transfixing animation. Moving through a flurry of Japanese characters, moon phases, ...

In the early 1960s, quantum physics was regarded as one of the most successful theories of all time. It explained a wide range of phenomena to an unprecedented level of accuracy, from the structure of ...