Like the fertile soil of a well-kept garden, a life of splendid, utter uselessness yields abundance beyond our immediate aims John Alec Baker was not an ornithologist by profession. He had a regular ...
How did the most influential friendship in the history of psychoanalysis fall apart? The historic break-up of Freud and Jung ...
People tell stories all the time: at parties, at dinner with family or friends, at work, in job interviews, on blind dates. Storytelling is pretty much everywhere. But somehow the skill of ...
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Screens and social media get the blame, but the real problem lies in how we measure intelligence in the first place ...
For most people, experiencing just a few of these does not reflect an addiction to social media. However, the behaviour may still be problematic, in one or more of these ways, to the extent that it’s ...
You’ve probably seen a film or television show where an Autistic person is portrayed as a loner. And, while media representations aren’t always realistic, perhaps you have met someone like this in ...
An 80-year-old botanist and poet reflects on her life and work in this contemplative portrait of discovery and loss ...
Ever since Plato started telling stories about people trapped in caves, philosophers have pondered the relationship between the mind and reality. How can we be sure that the world we think we know is ...
When brothers and sisters victimise each other, the harms can be serious. But it’s never too late to heal old wounds The vast majority of us grow up with one or more siblings, often forming powerful ...
The psychology of ostracism helps explain why you can sometimes shrug it off, yet other times feel the urge to lash out Have you ever felt invisible, ignored or left out? Maybe your friends made plans ...
Humans grow up with a powerful drive to learn how things work and why certain patterns and properties exist in the world. Wonder, a word with multiple related meanings, has one sense that captures ...
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