Many think the answer is obvious: we ought to cut immoral people out of our lives. But that isn’t necessarily the best option ...

Like billions of people, I use caffeine. But there is a glaring double standard in the drugs we stigmatise or celebrate ...

Moved by mystical visions and the French Revolution, William Blake crafted a radical blueprint for living with purpose ...

On a crisp, clear day in January about four years ago, my children and I joined a few thousand Rhode Islanders in a protest march against a recent change in law that restricted the number of refugees ...

People living in Western nations today can expect to live a considerably longer life, on average, than 100 years or so ago. The dramatically shorter average life expectancies of the past were skewed ...

Ever feel like a word or person you just learned about has been showing up repeatedly? There’s a term for that ...

Your demise is inevitable. I hope that doesn’t come as too much of a shock. I agree that the brevity of human existence is bothersome. Thankfully, for most of us, this frightful fact usually hovers ...

Defying the predetermined shapes of her world, a woman must carve out her own space in this stunning, surreal animation ...

Studies of longterm friends offer surprising insights as to whether friends who are more or less alike tend to endure Bring to mind the friendships in your life: what do you think makes some of them ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

Aphantasia veils the past and the future from the mind’s eye. That can be a gift to philosophers like Derek Parfit and me There’s an early memory from my childhood, representative of its peak ...

Have you ever experienced a space that made you feel uneasy or stressed? Perhaps it was a noisy and crowded shopping mall, with its neon signs, patterned tilework and boldly painted walls in franchise ...