South Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, or ‘India’ in its pre-nation-state meaning, boasts a remarkable diversity in ethnicities, cultures and languages. For more than two centuries, scholars and ...

Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too ...

Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move ...

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?

English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the top right of the video player. Set in the windswept hills of rural Iran, the short documentary Sarnevesht (Daughter) ...

A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise ...

Ancient Athenians chose leaders by lottery rather than elections. Could this solve the problems facing democracy today?

Warning: this film features rapidly flashing images that can be distressing to photosensitive viewers. Impromptu is at once a transfixing audiovisual experience and a whirlwind visual history. In the ...

Talk as much as you like about human rights, nothing will change until the architecture of global finance is reformed ...

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 ...

San Francisco’s Exploratorium was founded in 1969 by the US particle physicist and teacher Frank Oppenheimer, the brother of J Robert Oppenheimer. The museum continues to operate today, with more than ...

is assistant professor of Classics at Cornell University in Ithaca, US. She is working on a book titled Bad Readers and Ancient Rome. A 3rd-century Egyptian fragment of Sappho’s poetry from papyri ...