Here’s a new answer to the old question ‘why is there something rather than nothing?’ (It’s neither simple nor easy) ...
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Fugitive imagination

Wherever people are confined, displaced, silenced or made disposable, fugitive forms of knowledge and imagination emerge ...
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Equality talk

In the summer of 1646 the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences ...
Goats everywhere! Three-hour handstands! Magical doorknobs! Discover a whole new way of looking at a Cubist masterpiece ...
A strange man arriving on camelback – the artist Nora Abbott animates her grandfather’s story of a prospector’s last ride ...
Ancient specimens reveal how animals began to move half a billion years ago – and even the first known example of ‘handedness ...