The contemporary obsession with feeling good might mean we’re losing sight of what makes life genuinely meaningful ...

Formality: roughly, how formal and public a relationship is vs informal and private; Exchange: how much it involves trading ...

Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...

I swim to think and to stay afloat in an ever-wetter world ‘The Beames my Bones, my flesh the plankes’: in pools, I glimpse the future of our terrestrial bodies in an ocean world by Steve Mentz SACRED ...

Something curious happens in two people’s brains during supportive interactions. It could help explain their emotional power ...

I was 11 the first time I saw her. It was September – at least, I think it was. The trees were shedding. The mountains, ripening from green to red. Mom remembers it as September, too, but Dad says it ...

Far more than an evolutionary imperative, caregiving is a gateway to our deepest humanity, and may explain our intelligence ...

Social media is full of images of people plunging into freezing lakes and icy baths, with influencers touting the benefits of cold exposure in one form or another. You may have been wondering what ...

I checked it out, and the Peter Principle is a genuine concept that originated with a bestselling, semi-satirical book of the same name in 1969, co-written by two Canadians, the educationalist ...

We think of tears as an overflow of emotion, but an evolutionary lens shows they’re a rational form of social signalling ...

The diplomatic intervention by a philosopher on a president shows the extraordinary consequences of unlikely meetings ...

To resist dogma and accept uncertainty, think like a pragmatist Founded in 19th-century America, the philosophy of pragmatism promises imaginative ways of coping with our circumstances by Michael ...