From geographical borders to symbolic thresholds in literature, interfaces mediate realms of clarity and mystery, linking the familiar with the unknown

Why contemporary society must rethink language and intelligence across species

United States, early 1900s: a non-citizen Native American becomes an exemplary figure of extraordinary physical and mental balance. His name is Jim Thorpe

From billionaire triumphs to TV scandals, quiz shows have transformed throughout the years, shaping our collective perception of the very idea of knowledge

The prevalence of a dominant language on the internet may be a catalyst for information exchange or, conversely, a barrier to the web’s potential

How neuroscience and digital technology are changing the way we learn

Black hijabs burn up as hope fills the streets of Iran in a powerful manifestation of desire: the Iranian revolution

The age of convenience undoubtedly affected our ability to desire, but there is a contemporary countertendency in the rebirth of “inconvenient” items and movements seeking authentic experiences. Here’s a closer look at two specific industries whose paths appear to be heading in this route

A twisted journey through the history of the internet which is, in some ways, the history of internet pornography. And vice versa

Maria Mavropoulou has captured a series of overlaps: vibrant colors from screens in the background, organic fluids like saliva, and tears in the foreground

Martina Matencio’s work is an intimate celebration of love, desire, and touch — where nostalgia and melancholy coexist among a light and emotive atmosphere

On cathedral thinking

Witnessing a war can be a horrific experience, but it can be soberingly teaching. For who is on the field, and for the lucky ones to relive those stories through their images

Applications like Chat-GPT do not have our limits, and that’s ok

A dive into social network languages and subcultures

A discussion of identity, freedom, and the struggle for recognition beyond binary genders in the face of societal norms and psychoanalysis

The places we are born and raised in can greatly influence our identity. But sometimes we must take it upon ourselves to keep alive the identity of the places we have to leave behind.

What makes an event a turning point? Analyses, thoughts and examples from the ancient discovery of fire to the current pandemic.

Shaking off centuries worth of rotten bias is a long and difficult process. Acknowledging the problem is the first crucial step

Migration has had and still has a great impact on human history: it shapes countries, economies, cultures and — now more than ever — the climate.

The internet has unlocked a world full of potential. But unlike material things, which deteriorate and fade, the web makes things hard to disappear. And that influences us

When reality is too hard to grapple with, the only comfort lies off the grid

A photographic experiment that explores the curation of one’s “self” image

The chronicle of a correspondence, articulating post-digital romance as an ecstasy of communication

An essay on counterculture

Selfies don’t come out of nowhere: for centuries self-representation mirrored and shaped societies and identities through different devices

A historical and cultural exploration of the concept of gender and its impact on modern society

The world is changing quickly, and it is really hard to forge a surefire path. There are, however, some guidelines that are worth following — especially with regard to what not to do

The fight for human rights has been battering the nations’ parliaments for decades and one of the forms this fight can take is creativity

Where do we cultivate the independent thinking we need as adults to deal with the world? Professor Roberto Guardigli examines the theme.

No matter how much we’ve retooled, reorganized, and self-medicated, it’s not easy to recover complete confidence in the future.

In a world where sight no longer conditions our perception of reality, how can we communicate and create relationships through sound?

From discovering answers by asking questions to choosing to be one’s true self by running against the beliefs of one’s family; from not bearing the perversion of the ideals of science to choosing to be not just another drummer, doubt is a powerful driving force in human life

The cause-effect relationship between doubt, desire for change, and the resulting choice to achieve it is a complicated matter

One often gets a strange impression that the most critical decisions decide themselves.

With the right treatment, the mind of a conspiracist can be cured.

What happens when a woman is the best on the playing field? Three stories teach us that merit always goes beyond gender.

A new happiness for the new normal.

Living in a culture held together by a shared dedication to inquiry.

How we have been forced to “re-see” the world to understand it again.

Why, in the age of Netflix, we need to rekindle our curiosity about content.

Uncensored perspectives about riots in Paris' 93rd arrondissement 15 years later.

How much did so-called heretics understand the sense of defeat.

What does a nursery school, an NGO, and anti-facism have to do with football?

On a quest to earn the award for not winning.

Michi Panero grew up in a literary family, but the Spaniard never published a word.

The urge to say something which has never been said before.

A look at visual icons of the age of protests and how they have spread to other cultures.

Envisioning perfect worlds through centuries to escape reality.

Covid-19 has turned the agenda of our priorities upside down, showing us a new path that not all of us would like to follow.

What can one of the most widely read works of the 1900s teach us about living and surviving amidst a global pandemic? 

How can we reconcile the various ways in which we communicate, while preserving the integrity of words and understanding each other?

No other art form has developed technically as much as cinema. But this transformation is also about our universal quest for meaning.

Print media needs to settle into a new role, changing its clothes accordingly.

Only a handful of product stories are as interesting as the one behind the Tamagotchi.

The theory of evolution created a solid foundation to answer one of the greatest questions of all time: where do we come from?

Three perspectives highlighting alternative thoughts and ways of life, which put our reality in question.

In the last few years, the beauty industry has rebooted to serve a new generation that is hungry for authenticity and empowerment.

Every misunderstanding implies there is also an understanding. But what if understanding is only an illusion?

Covid-19 has infiltrated our lives, politics, and thoughts. Here's a view of it through philosophy, history, and literature

Utopias are appealing because they give people an opportunity to withdraw from their problems and enter a world of bliss.

Collecting bigger/better/faster data allows businesses to uncover previously inaccessible insights about customers’ behaviors.

The story behind a projected experimental town with a molten bronze bell casting business in central Arizona.

In The Rebel Surgeon, Erik Gandini tells the story of a Swedish surgeon who moves his practice to a small village in Ethiopia.

Tracing the path of contact with anyone who might have the virus is being used as a public health tool for controlling the pandemic.

Piero Scaruffi shares his insights about everything from the history of Rock and Roll to Sri Lankan politics.

How can we characterize our realities in a foundationless, limitless universe?

According to a rabbi, utopia is a place that can never exist, even where there is a strong belief in a higher power.

Thomas More's 1516 work is considered the birth of the concept of euphoric living, but More wasn't first to examine an ideal society.

What can we learn and glean from the past to create our aspirations for the future?

Covid-19 has created an opportunity for students of all ages to benefit from online classes. What does that mean for the future?

Apps and telehealth can give people access to a doctor on their smartphone whenever they need them, especially during Covid-19.

Biomedical gerontologist, Aubrey de Grey, explains why the elixir for life may be closer than we think.

Former Chicago gang member, Chico Tillmon, is fighting what seems to be an incurable epidemic in his city: violence.

The maize team reflects on Afterwords' six-week journey and the themes addressed as various phases of this crisis unfolded.

Chris Chavez is a yoga teacher and co-owner of Cihangir Yoga in Istanbul, Turkey, he reflects on our connection to inner truth.

Chief marketing officer of Clementoni and father, Enrico Santarelli, reflects on the impact lockdown has had on family dynamics.

Tommaso Mellili reflects upon restaurants as the last space that modern loneliness hasn't conquered yet and its role as a ritual.

Franco La Cecla discusses the meaning of virtual connections through technological tools and our need for surrogate images.

Matteo reflects upon the sense and meaning of words and the importance of acknowledging micro moments, which compose our lives.

Thami shares hopeful thoughts about the economy of care and how solidarity can help humanity get back to its principles of existence.

Mauro Porcini, chief design officer at PepsiCo, talks about the value of time and the opportunity to reinvest in meaningful actions.

Chico Tillmon discusses the importance of giving individuals and marginalized communities equal opportunities.

Simona Malpezzi is an Italian senator and school teacher. She shares lessons from distant learning and the importance of technology.

Massimo Redaelli eflects on the resilience Italy has demonstrated in history and the ingredients that helped it overcome hardships.

Jane Andrews is Head of the Primary Years Program at H-International School Treviso. She discusses leadership and human connection.

The first instant messages were for programmers and emergency communications until they entered the realm of our everyday lives.

A sociologist and founder of Codici, a center for research and social change, explores an individuals' process of eliminating unessentials.

Anna Catalano shares how halting from a jet set life increased her appreciation for connections with colleagues and friends.

An educator shares her beliefs about digital solutions for education, and how they can't replace physical school and human encounters.

A theoretical physicist reflects on how we perceive life and why this moment has moved our minds and hearts in such an unusual way.

Maia Guarnaccia, an author, advisor and former vice president at Vivienne Westwood, reflects on how to balance our existence.

The lead vocalist at Sons of Serendip reflects on the opportunity from Covid-19 to revisit our life, work, and relationships.

One of the most accomplished Hispanic media producers in the US talks about what helps her to maintain a sense of hope and joy.

Co-founder and chairman of The World Innovation Network (TWIN) Global discusses the importance of connecting in moments of adversity.

Our awareness of time — how we measure and explain it — is one of the most distinguishing features of humans.

Every ship captain, sailor, owner, and passenger has one man to thank.

H-FARM is creating an innovation hub where entrepreneurs, professionals, and students live together.

We plan for the future through calendars and diaries. But not every culture looks at time in this western way.

Dr. Tim Pychyl takes us into the quicksand of wasting time and why we do it, instead of facing what really needs to get done.

Time travel is one of humankind's most daring, ambitious, and haunting dreams.

Images are immediate and eternal, translating to frozen moments.

How video games transport us to states flow, as we experience time indirectly while processing information from our other senses.

The way we tell stories can teach us a lot about the Zeitgeist of our times. What do TV series say about the way we see time?

Sailor Giovanni Soldini's sense of time where there is no elsewhere, no desires, and few doubts about how to use your time

Time zones are weird and full of contradictions, approximations and exceptions, but manage to work surprisingly well.

Neuropsychologist Marc Wittmann tries to solve the riddle of felt time, where neither too much or too little is ideal.

The Greenwich Meridian is the ruler of clocks. But before 1884, there was no universal system of timekeeping, nor time zones.

How does a person's job, or the way they spend their days, define their sense of time and give meaning and purpose to their days?

Stephan Vincent-Lancrin, senior analyst at OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, discusses education of the future.

Since its 1968 founding, the International Baccalaureate World Schools’ mission has been creating a better world through education.

Communicating science for the masses

Is the future so utterly scary just because we can't imagine a better one?

In the digital age we have moved away from everything analog, including handwriting. Could this catapult us into another Middle Ages?

Soon, natural resources will not be enough to feed us. Here's how synthetic biology could help.

When we can consume media for free, what does that mean for the future of journalism?

Paolo Balboni, professor of applied linguistics at the University of Ca' Foscari, discusses different perceptions of knowledge.

Contributing up to 29% of global emissions, the food industry is one of the most polluting. How can we curb this?

Post-apocalyptic videogames play a pivotal role in visually representing to our deepest fears and shaping potential solutions.

WonderLEARN is part of our maize.LIVE series aimed at rediscovering corporate learning and mapping out the landscape of education.

Nasos Papadopoulos, founder of MetaLearn, a web destination for learning, explains the skills needed to be future proof.

The way we live and work today is different than how we did in the past. Why don't we change how we educate younger generations?

The compartmentalized separation between STEM and humanities is all but natural, affects both our educational system and the workplace.

If it's not led by humans, technology alone will not be enough to create a desirable future.

What does it mean when the skills we seek today in our preparation for tomorrow are the same as the ones we all held yesterday?

With precision medicine, we'll be able to give the right drug, to the right patient, at the right time.

Thanks to neuroscience, the ways in which we are educated and are trained have become much easier to understand.

Developments in how we teach and learn are often blind sighted by bad data and lack of foresight, no matter how good our intentions.

One of the most important sources of competitive advantage is a company’s overall corporate learning strategy.

Brands went from an acquaintance to a life partner. Changes in technology, consumer behavior, and consciousness are to blame.

Social media are often pointed at as the cause of the “filter bubbles”, while they merely highlight a trend that has an entirely different origin.

With audience sizes the likes of which the world has never seen, what does e-sports mean for our society?

Which ideas we should keep close to our hearts in the years ahead?

Sex and the ways in which we become intimate are changing, but for better or for worse?

If we want to live according to the principles of nature and live in harmony with it, we have to look at the philosophy upon which we're designing our cities.

Evolution and technology are working at a different pace—the result is to be seen.

With the increasing capabilities of biotech and honed understanding of genomics, we are finally increasing the odds of creating healthier lives for all.

Researches pushed their creation a step further, raising ethical concerns.

Here’s how the next generation of agencies is adapting and molding the future of advertising.

A one-size fits all approach to drugs and other treatments will soon become a thing of the past.

What if a social network removes a user's recognition and reach without their knowledge?

VR is being successfully employed in a variety of ways and for many different purposes across the healthcare industry

WeChat, the brainchild of Chinese Tech giant Tencent, celebrated its seventh birthday this year.

The ethical implications of applying Artificial Intelligence in the healthcare sector are not an easy puzzle to solve.

If we want the cities of the future to be truly inclusive and fully digital, we have to look at the citizens's new needs.

Just fifteen years ago, it was hard to picture the impact neuroscience would have on people’s lives beyond medical applications.

Leading the way

In a world that is ever growingly more ubiquitous with technology, children have to develop new skills from an early age.

According to Neuroscientist Moran Cerf, artists, hackers, and investors have something in common: the ability to tap into someone else's brain.

Our current educational systems, still heavily determined by the first industrial revolution, must adapt to the times we live in.

Revolutions are never well mannered— and the Fourth Industrial Revolution won’t be any different.

CRISPR-Cas9, a genome-editing tool that is faster, cheaper and more accurate than previous techniques of editing DNA, is our future tool in the countering the effects of diseases.

Looking at the implications of advancements in machine learning across the cybersecurity and health industries.