American literary icon Toni Morrison passed away aged 88. The Nobel Prize-winning author devoted her life to ensuring black lives and voices mattered through her literature.

Tessa Roynon · The Conversation 14 Aug 2019

Media, Entertainment and Information

This submerged temple in Thailand has been exposed again - by drought

Thousands have flocked to see the lost temple of Wat Nong Bua Yai in Thailand, after it was exposed following severe drought.

Prapan Chankaew · Reuters 12 Aug 2019

Africa

5 facts to know about Africa's powerhouse - Nigeria

From Afrobeats to oil, here’s what you need to know about Nigeria today.

Kate Whiting 09 Aug 2019

Media and Entertainment

Philanthropist Bill Gates picks his top summer reads – can you keep up with the Microsoft billionaire?

The way we read may be changing, but all over the world people still love a good book. And none more so than the Microsoft founder and philanthropist .

Emma Charlton 08 Aug 2019

Book Club

Toni Morrison: 10 quotes you should know

The Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88 - leaving behind a body of literature. Here are 10 of her most thought-provoking quotes.

Kate Whiting 07 Aug 2019

Arts and Culture

Meet Cipta: the comic book hero using her powers to tackle bullying in schools

Here’s the winning entry in a UNICEF competition that asked young people to create a superhero to raise awareness of a global issue.

Douglas Broom 31 Jul 2019

Book Club

One of this year's Booker Prize nominees is just a 1,000-page long sentence

Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellman is 426,100 words long - but just a single sentence. The cover art features a quote from the Evening Standard, who describes reading Ellman's work as "li...

Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz · Quartz 31 Jul 2019

Switzerland

They have more than 30 words for "apple core", and other things you didn't know about Switzerland

There is far more to Switzerland than cuckoo clocks and chocolate, and so to mark Switzerland's National Day - celebrated on 1 August since 1891 - here are 15 things you might not know ab...

Micol Lucchi 31 Jul 2019

Arts and Culture

Why we need artists who strive for social change

In other words - what if we combined the drive and innovation of entrepreneurship with the transformative power of art? Today a movement called art for social change is doing just that: e...

Andreas Heinecke 23 Jul 2019

Geopolitics

This is how the world has been mapped throughout history

Today's technology allows us to create incredibly detailed and accurate maps of the world, but in the past we've not been so lucky.

Iman Ghosh · Visual Capitalist 22 Jul 2019

Fourth Industrial Revolution

A.I. is translating messages of long-lost languages

Researchers from MIT and Google Brain discover how to use deep learning to decipher ancient languages.

Paul Ratner · Big Think 15 Jul 2019

Arts and Culture

This human skull proves that humans left Africa much earlier than previously thought

A new study of two fossils found in Greece shows that one of them is the oldest Homo sapiens specimen ever found outside Africa by more than 50,000 years.

Anthony Sinclair · The Conversation 15 Jul 2019

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These photos show the world of science in stunning detail

Melinda Gates’ 'Equality Can't Wait' campaign wants to eliminate the gender pay gap

Traditional Kolam art is giving South Indian women more economic opportunities

A look at Toni Morrison's transformative legacy

This submerged temple in Thailand has been exposed again - by drought

5 facts to know about Africa's powerhouse - Nigeria

Philanthropist Bill Gates picks his top summer reads – can you keep up with the Microsoft billionaire?

Toni Morrison: 10 quotes you should know

Meet Cipta: the comic book hero using her powers to tackle bullying in schools

One of this year's Booker Prize nominees is just a 1,000-page long sentence

They have more than 30 words for "apple core", and other things you didn't know about Switzerland

Why we need artists who strive for social change

This is how the world has been mapped throughout history

A.I. is translating messages of long-lost languages

This human skull proves that humans left Africa much earlier than previously thought

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