Disturbed loner? Gentle recluse? Opinions on an infamous Maine hermit run the gamut | Continue reading
The death rate remains stable at one per person. With that awareness at the front of your mind, you can live a fuller life | Continue reading
The gift of a half-wanted hive took me into the world of bees, kept and wild: a place of generosity and attentiveness | Continue reading
The experimental jazz genre where musicians invent the rules with every note | Continue reading
For the émigré philosopher Imre Lakatos, science degenerates unless it is theoretically and experimentally progressive | Continue reading
The gift of a half-wanted hive took me into the world of bees, kept and wild: a place of generosity and attentiveness | Continue reading
Embodied, ecological, meaningful and sticky: what embodied enactivism reveals about the nature of mental disorders | Continue reading
‘The whole thing is a monstrosity!’ How a symmetry heretic sees the Universe | Continue reading
The meaning of life is not a puzzle that can be solved once and for all. Asking ‘How should we live?’ defines our humanity | Continue reading
A new therapy helps survivors improve their lives by facing the psychological impoverishment that often accompanies abuse | Continue reading
How harnessing the power of dogs could help scientists sniff out cancer early | Continue reading
It’s a human impulse to create in-groups and out-groups, but formal rituals can bring diverse people together as one | Continue reading
A modern shepherd tending his flock looks for spiritual resonance in age-old work | Continue reading
Spinoza helps diagnose the bad ideas and sad passions that preclude us from a finer relationship with the natural world | Continue reading
A bioethicist at the heart of the Italian coronavirus crisis asks: why won’t we talk about the trade-offs of the lockdown? | Continue reading
Your beloved isn’t a character in your story but the co-author of a narrative that evolves from its sociocultural context | Continue reading
Hunger isn’t in your stomach or your blood-sugar levels. It’s in your mind – and that’s where we need to shape up | Continue reading
‘Quite a height, ah?’ A tour of the Chrysler Building by those building it | Continue reading
It’s time to assert the obvious: sacrificing the public for the private is a failure of modern economic thinking | Continue reading
The world’s first mass deportation, bureaucractically managed and industrial in scale, took place on American soil | Continue reading
What a rare form of dementia reveals about how we construct the world outside | Continue reading
Check the temperature of your beliefs: did you just get lucky, or are other perfectly reasonable explanations at work? | Continue reading
The belief that hard work and talent make for success is not only false, it encourages selfishness and discrimination too | Continue reading
He was a patriot and a prisoner, a delegate and a drunk; circling the globe when few Englishmen ever left their home counties | Continue reading
Maybe genes influence intelligence, but they do so with such subtlety that we might never engineer them to boost IQ | Continue reading
‘I makes shoes because of beauty. Not because of shoes’ – on craft as a calling | Continue reading
He was a patriot and a prisoner, a delegate and a drunk; circling the globe when few Englishmen ever left their home counties | Continue reading
Science today stands at a crossroads: will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created? | Continue reading
Science today stands at a crossroads: will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created? | Continue reading
‘Plurals’ are people who say: ‘I’m one of many people inside my head.’ What can we learn from them about respect and identity? | Continue reading
Some are born great. And some can achieve greatness by nurturing their creative brain with flexible and persistent thinking | Continue reading
The ant colony has often served as a metaphor for human order and hierarchy. But real ant society is radical to its core | Continue reading
For some, animal testing is ‘just science’. For others, it’s just not right | Continue reading
To cope with despair, dissonance or desolation, we need a companion – not a fixer – to help us carry our own sorrows | Continue reading
Medieval mystics starved the body to feed the soul. Understanding this perfectionist mindset could help treat anorexia today | Continue reading
The Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Kondo is known for his dazzling experimental shorts, which craft otherworldly art from urban landscapes. In 0107 – b moll he uses nighttime images of Tokyo trains to explore some of the contrasts – physical togetherness and emotional solitude, natur … | Continue reading
From The Hunger Games to the streets: how reading dystopian fiction can inspire radical political action in the real world | Continue reading
‘I don't want to overdose my work with philosophy.’The artist Hiwa K – born in Iraqi Kurdistan and now based in Germany – is celebrated and exhibited around the globe, but he rejects what he views as the more pretentious and extravagant trappings of the art world. He says that he … | Continue reading
Fascism promised radical national renewal and supreme power to the people. Are we in danger of a fascist revival today? | Continue reading
We know the climate is changing, and we know what we must do about it. But does optimism have its limits for spurring action? | Continue reading
By chance, I grew up without a father. As an adult, I chose to meet him. Through the prism of this event, life slowly made sense | Continue reading
Don’t blame Maslow for ‘do what you love’. How managers hijacked the hierarchy of needs for their business practices | Continue reading
Darwin’s theory that natural selection drives evolution is incomplete without input from evolution’s anti-hero: Lamarck | Continue reading
The financial world is a theatrical production, abundantly lubricated by that magical elixir of illusionists: confidence | Continue reading
The term ‘quantum entanglement’ refers to quantum particles being interdependent even when separated, to put it in exceedingly simple terms. Because this behaviour was so at odds with his understanding of the laws of physics, Albert Einstein called the phenomenon ‘spooky action a … | Continue reading
I was homeschooled for eight years and here’s what I recommend: take your time, be idiosyncratic, and no comparisons | Continue reading
At the level of the tiny, biology is all about engineering. That’s why nanotechnology can rebuild medicine from within | Continue reading
At the level of the tiny, biology is all about engineering. That’s why nanotechnology can rebuild medicine from within | Continue reading