The shape of time

In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world

Emily Thomas

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Why Hume is better at explaining modern capitalism than Marx

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video / Design and fashion

How islanders of Oceania built fearsome armour without metal

Video by the British Museum

Folding our bodies back into the Earth, new death technologies are methods for absolving our ecological sin

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Hannah Gould, senior lecturer in Buddhist Studies and cultural anthropologist and Georgina Robinson, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Theology and Religion and the Centre for Death-Life Studies

Read the Essay: Dying to be green: are new eco funerals a false promise?

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