The Why Factor

Every week, hundreds of millions of people around the world surrender their emotions; leave them - f

Hundreds of millions of us bear the stress and boredom of the same journey day in day out - the comm

From Stone Age caves, to the buildings of Pompeii and on the walls of our modern cities we find evid

They are human and inanimate, beautiful yet disturbing; made for children but collected by adults. F

Tea comes in many guises - milky, sweet and spicy for those in India. The Chinese drink it as nature

Some of us are content to surrender our personal space to serve on a submarine, while some of us str

The UN proclaimed its Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, after the horrors of World War

To mark the centenary of World War One, Mike Williams explores the meaning of sacrifice. We often ta

Why do people give their lives for a nation? For a cause? As the world marks the centenary of the Fi

It’s something that will come to all of us. So why is it so hard to talk about death? Mike Williams

We trust them with our deepest secrets, and use them to preserve our memories. They’ve been hidden,

Mike Williams asks why do we travel? Why do we leave the comforts of our homes to go to other place

For most of us it is a sanctuary. But some people have no home at all, while for others it can becom

We use encryption every day - in our bank transfers, on our mobile phones and whenever we buy anythi

The journalist, author and Olympian Matthew Syed blew it big time at the Sydney 2000 games. Despite

How would you describe your nationality and how much does it matter? When did we start defining our

We all use cash - notes and coins - but with the increasing popularity of transacting by other metho

Some people actively embrace risk by jumping out of aeroplanes, scuba-diving or motor-racing. But we

The chilli pepper is a work of ‘evolutionary elegance’. Its complex chemistry can fool our brains. W

Are some people simply more visual than others? And, what do we reveal through our drawings? Drawing