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René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

Can a Tibetan singer make the leap from the slow pace of life on the Tibetan plateau to the fast rhythms of urban Beijing?

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Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art ...

What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea ...

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

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