At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created? ~science mathematics Article 3 votes
A psychiatric diagnosis can be more than an unkind ‘label’ ~health.mental Article 1545 words, published Feb 18 2020 8 votes
How to optimise your headspace on a mission to Mars ~space spaceflight.crewed Article 1390 words 6 votes
The golden quarter—Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled? ~science Article 3277 words, published Dec 3 2014 12 votes
The most popular songs today are sadder than they were fifty years ago: can cultural evolution explain this negative turn? ~music pop Article 1550 words 11 votes
Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it ~humanities.history Article 1578 words, published Sep 7 2017 15 votes
Why the simple life is not just beautiful, it’s necessary ~enviro sustainability Article 1018 words, published Nov 28 2016 9 votes
How Mengzi came up with something better than the Golden Rule ~humanities philosophy Article 1020 words, published Nov 1 2019 7 votes
English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language. ~humanities language linguistics Article 3327 words, published Nov 13 2015 12 votes
Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser ~science psychology Article 1163 words, published Aug 7 2019 7 votes
Broken sleep: People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through? ~life Article 2364 words, published Nov 7 2014 22 votes
Spot the psychopath: Psychopaths have a reputation for cunning and ruthlessness. But they are more like you and me than we care to admit ~health.mental Article 2902 words 6 votes
The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look ~humanities philosophy Article 1246 words 4 votes
Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy? ~humanities religion Article 3223 words, published Jul 17 2019 12 votes
Eating someone: Farmed animals have personalities, smarts, even a sense of agency. Why then do we saddle them with lives of utter despair? ~food Article 2954 words, published May 8 2019 28 votes
Absolute English - Science once communicated in a polyglot of tongues, but now English rules alone. How did this happen – and at what cost? ~science Article 2689 words, published Feb 4 2015 6 votes
The African Anthropocene: The Anthropocene feels different depending on where you are – too often, the ‘we’ of the world is white and Western. ~enviro climate change pollution Article 3212 words, published Feb 6 2018 10 votes
Fantasies of forced sex are common. Do they enable rape culture? ~life nsfw Article 1232 words 13 votes
American bull - The story of American beef is like the story of the nation as a whole: a mashup of history and myth, bloody and contested ~food history meat Article 3623 words 6 votes
Nuclear power is not the answer in a time of climate change ~enviro climate change energy Article 1321 words, published May 28 2019 14 votes
If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then? ~humanities philosophy Article 1196 words 5 votes
A revolution in time - Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE ~humanities.history Article 2902 words 7 votes
Rejection kills: The brain makes no distinction between a broken bone and an aching heart. That’s why social exclusion needs a health warning ~health.mental Article 3615 words 5 votes
Neuroscience now points to rejection causing physical pain: how do we treat and address social exclusion? ~health.mental Article 3615 words 5 votes
When a child's mental health diagnosis comes too late to help ~health mental health Article 3253 words, published Apr 8 2019 15 votes
How the body and mind talk to one another to understand the world ~science biology Article 1167 words 6 votes
Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece ~humanities.history Article 1119 words, published Feb 1 2019 8 votes
Xenophon: The ancient Greek rebel leader who saw Socrates solo-dancing ~humanities.history Article 2867 words, published Jan 10 2019 3 votes
Believing without evidence is always morally wrong ~humanities philosophy ethics Article 1058 words 10 votes
A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments ~humanities.history Article 1426 words, published Oct 2 2018 6 votes
The say of the land. Is language produced by the mind? Romantic theory has it otherwise: words emerge from the cosmos, expressing its soul ~humanities language Article 3371 words, published Sep 25 2018 4 votes
Intelligent, devoted, alien – parrots are unlike any other pet. But what does the complex human-avian bond say about us? ~life.pets Article 3091 words, published Feb 5 2013 9 votes
Let’s bring back the Sabbath as a radical act against ‘total work’ ~life work Article 1287 words 13 votes
The big squeeze: Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today ~humanities.history Article 2173 words, published Sep 5 2018 8 votes
Growing-ups: Living with your parents, single and with no clear career. Is this a failure to grow up or a whole new stage of life? ~life Article 3960 words, published Apr 17 2014 29 votes