How does memory transform far away from home? A Sudanese artist uses a surreal lens to capture his longing and nostalgia ...

A fundamental part of being human is wanting to connect with other humans. But many of us don’t connect as often as we could, and it is especially easy to feel disconnected in the modern world. You ...

Sartre’s phenomenology reveals the shift from subject to object (and back) is not just grammar. It is a matter of power ...

Visualisation activates similar brain areas as real-life experiences. Here’s how to use mental imagery to improve results ...

Contrary to classic habit science, certain behaviours never become easy. Recognising this can help you stick with them ...

In the therapy room, I’ve seen how rethinking what we are – and what it means to ‘be dead’ – can lighten our fears ...

is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine and Cosmopolitan, among others. She has also ...

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, ...

What would it mean to love a stranger just as you love your closest friends? A philosopher makes a case for ‘love ethics’ ...

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 ...

The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone Mental illness is often thought to be a matter of individual disorder.

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 ...