Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum, part work of art, and wholly individual ...

After decades of practising psychotherapy, I believe it has little foundation in science and often causes harm ...

What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about the world, or a need to dominate it?

What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself ...

Praying is a cognitive practice full of problem-solving resources. You can learn from it even if you don’t want to do it ...

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...

We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US ...

In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling: Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, ...

Both Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his friend Adam Smith agreed that modern humans were vain creatures, ceaselessly adjusting and masking themselves to gain the favour of others. However, as this short ...