Even in ancient Greece, Plato questioned whether gender norms around masculinity were good for men’s individual freedom ...

On a walk through the Welsh countryside, I travelled through 4.6 billion years of Earth history – and you can too ...

The gist of a scene or place can subtly alter our very sense of being, an affecting quality captured by Monet’s paintings ...

The delightful Psyche Video ‘Le Mots de la Carpe’ by the French animator Lucrèce Andreae shows how silence can be path to ...

As much as people struggle with not knowing, we live in an uncertain world – and there are advantages to embracing that ...

A study explores how many words people use a day, whether women really speak more than men, and whether we’re talking less ...

If experience is a song, mood is the bassline. As your thoughts and sensations flow by, it’s your mood that provides the emotional undercurrent. It predisposes you to respond in certain ways to a ...

The difference between a brief flirtation and an all-consuming love affair is one of interest. Put a different way: the thing ...

As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, ...

Memory lapses are a part of life. How many times has someone said hello as if they know you and yet you couldn’t quite place their face? What about returning home from the store only to realise you ...

Everyone seems on edge these days. Turning on the news or scrolling through your social media feed provides a constant stream of things to worry about. Many countries have witnessed rapid growth in ...

In theory, the pursuit of a meaningful life is noble. Foundational concepts of community, ethics, logic, morality, consciousness and equality were born from the investigation of meaning. From ...