A History of Ideas animations

How to live a good life? Aristotle’s answer was live virtuously: do what a virtuous person would do.

How did a strange lump of bronze and decayed wood discovered in a shipwreck reveal the first ever computer? Narrated by ... Read more

Find out more about the Golden Ratio.

Marx believed work is what makes us human, but a factory labourer under capitalism is no more than a cog in a gigantic m... Read more

Is the form by which you receive a message as significant as the message itself? Gillian Anderson investigates.

What happened 13.8 billion years ago? The Big Bang. Perhaps. Gillian Anderson explains.

Do you worry that screen-based devices are rewiring your brain? Perhaps you should, because they certainly are. Gillian ... Read more

According to Hinduism, there is no single creation, but cycles of creation. Get to grips with the basics.

Is it ever morally acceptable to tell a lie?

Do you draw conclusions from how things are to think about how things should be?

Is language structure hard-wired into our brain? Noam Chomsky thinks so.

Does the Fourth Revolution signify that it's no longer possible to hold to the view that humans are better at thinking t... Read more

Simone de Beauvoir: Resistance to male stereotypes of beauty can mean greater equality.

How do we learn to think and write in language so quickly? Gillian Anderson has a clue.

Some things that move us are beautiful, others are sublime. But what is the difference?

Are our 'conscious decisions' just reports on what is already happening?

We live in a world festering with evil. How could a good God allow this problem of evil?

Is lust just one rung on the ladder to a higher appreciation of beauty?

Gillian Anderson explains St. Thomas Aquinas' First Mover argument for God as the first cause of everything.

John Stuart Mill argues the case for being able to live your life the way you want to.