Society

How to hate

The manifesto was always a hotheaded call to arms. Then it got a slick, digital makeover in the cause of coldblooded hate

Tyler Thier

To converse well

A good conversation bridges the distances between people and imbues life with pleasure and a sense of discovery

Paula Marantz Cohen

Mapping data visualisation’s meteoric rise from Victorian London to today

6 minutes

Who owns history? How remarkable historical footage is hidden and monetised

18 minutes

The long-awaited arrival of TV to Shetland sparks debate in this vintage clip

9 minutes

The famed medieval map that stretched beyond Earth to heaven, history and myth

5 minutes

We’ve always been distracted

Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself

Joe Stadolnik

What did the Rosetta Stone’s inscription actually communicate?

17 minutes

Why did the Romans create a massive, entirely impractical map of their empire?

7 minutes

Is mass media still ‘manufacturing consent’ in the internet age?

5 minutes

Master cartography and mythical creatures – the world according to the Catalan Atlas

8 minutes

From mental image to sketch – how memories and emotions conjure up a face

23 minutes

Reading the strings and knots that keep the secrets of the Inka Empire

9 minutes

Behold as a mechanical foghorn in Shetland awakes from its year-long slumber

2 minutes

Trolls be gone

Anonymous users generate most toxic abuse and conspiracy theories online. The right to be anonymous should be curtailed

Stephen Kinsella

There are many ways to make a flat map of the world – each of them a unique distortion

10 minutes