New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave suggests early humans were handling fire far earlier than once believed, deep inside a place no wildfire could reach.

Just over fifty years ago, in 1971, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was published and instantly became a countercultural classic. However, people have always struggled to ...

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It’s a favourite among Fortune 100 companies, government agencies and regular people. More than 1.5 million people ...

Areo is an independent digital magazine dedicated to the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism. Founded in 2016, the publication takes its name from Areopagitica, John Milton’s 1644 ...

Something sinister is going on with cuteness. Over the last five years, we’ve seen the sudden appearance of cute Facial ID Recognition surveillance, cute government health messaging, cute military ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania turned human blood cells into early sperm cells by transplanting engineered tissue onto a mouse’s kidney, according to a study published this month in ...

I don’t remember ever not being a feminist. I toddled in marches of the 1970s with my mother. She became a second wave feminist in the 1960s after being denied a mortgage without a male guarantor and ...

The idea of decolonisation has been a fad in western discourse for the past few years. Of course, when one thinks of decolonisation, the national liberation movements that engulfed Africa and Asia in ...

Islamists, leftists and conservatives have long debated whether Islam is compatible with western liberal capitalism. Many have framed the history of capitalism as beginning in medieval Genoa and ...

Over the last few weeks, there’s been a growing storm over the claims of some that the Covid vaccines are unsafe, that ivermectin is an unjustly suppressed miracle drug and related concerns. Much of ...

In an essay for the New York Times 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones argues that the United States was “founded as a Slavocracy” and that racist ideology was the country’s “original sin.” The 1619 ...