Nihilism doesn't have a great reputation. It's associated with existential dread, immorality and Nazis. But writer and journalist Wendy Syfret says the philosophy can also lead to a happy, positive, ...

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A scene from Werner Herzog’s documentary, Encounters at the End of the World, has gone viral on the internet. In the clip, a single penguin can be seen walking towards the mountains away from the herd ...

Roger Caillois, possibly one of the most well-known theorists of human games and play, famously wrote that “play is ruined by the nihilist” in his book Man, Play, Games (1961). What he was getting at, ...

A new trend is doing the rounds on social media, featuring an image of a penguin apparently wandering away from its colony into the barren interior of Antarctica. The meme, dubbed “Nihilist Penguin”, ...