Across his career, the philosopher David Chalmers has challenged what we hold to be true about consciousness and the mind. Now he is questioning reality itself.
With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world’s 10 most widely spoken languages. There is a renewed push for it to become the continent’s lingua franca.
High-income countries could cut their agricultural emissions by almost two-thirds through dietary change, a study finds. Moving away from animal-based foods could free up an area of land larger than the entire European Union.
Edward O. Wilson, the sometimes-controversial U.S. biologist, professor, and author known as “Darwin’s natural heir”, who studied insects and human behaviour, has died at the age of 92, his foundation said Monday.