The role of the humanities in China’s education system has come under scrutiny as the country pushes for scientific advancement and a hi-tech workforce. In recent years, several top Chinese ...

At first glance, Akhil Anand looks like any other 14-year-old with a sketchbook. But hand him a pen and a pile of geometry, and you’ll witness something quietly radical—a mind that bends maths into ...

Carla Tardi is a technical editor and digital content producer with 25+ years of experience at top-tier investment banks and money-management firms. Eric's career includes extensive work in both ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.” Actor Warren Beatty would hardly have envisaged his words being lived out by a world-famous ...

Max Mara isn’t a name one would naturally associate with utilitarian workwear. And yet at the brand’s spring summer ’24 collection, which was unveiled in Milan this afternoon, there were boilersuits, ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 17: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits a school after announcing measures to address universities offering low-quality courses, which he believes are unfair to students. ...

Nicholas G. Evans receives funding from the Greenwall Foundation, National Science Foundation, Davis Educational Foundation, and the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research. One of the ways tech ...

Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande would have turned 93 years on July 23, 2022 but even in death and almost four decades after leaving office, one can hardly forget this quintessential politician; a man of ...

The concept of utilitarianism refers to the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful for the benefit of a majority. The doctrine is that an action is right in so far as it promotes happiness ...

John Stuart Mill’s (1806-1873) father, James Mill, was an outspoken advocate of utilitarianism and a friend of Jeremy Bentham, its founder. John Mill was born into a household steeped in utilitarian ...