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 ...

In the film Mary Poppins (1964), Uncle Albert extols the benefits of laughter in his song ‘I Love to Laugh’: ‘The more I laugh/the more I fill with glee/And the more the glee/The more I’m a merrier me ...

Do you feel blah? Not exactly suffering, but lacking interest and excitement? Do your days feel like a monotonous toil, akin to toothbrushing, but stretched over the entire day: same routines, same ...

Chicago’s roller rink skating regulars share incredible moves alongside words of wisdom in this vibrant short documentary ...

A filmmaker takes a leap of faith when he decides to risk ridicule and make a serious film about UFO sightings ...

Most people like movies. After all, 50 years before television became a dominant fixture in many homes, the cinema had established itself as the great popular medium of the 20th century. Some – myself ...

It is well known that artificial intelligence systems ‘hallucinate’, generating confident but false information in response ...

When awaiting a potentially stressful update or event, do you assume it won’t go your way? There may be better options Folk wisdom suggests that if you expect the worst, then you won’t be disappointed ...

How old were you the first time you pondered a philosophical puzzle? I was five. I wondered whether the other kids in my class saw colours the same way I did. What if red looked to me the way blue ...

The idea of using food as a therapeutic medium first occurred to me when I began training as a therapist in the same term that I started to teach community cooking. I found the two classrooms fed one ...

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 ...

Amid an 18-year prison sentence for bank robbery, a member of the Stopwatch Gang reflects on the fluid nature of time ...