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 ...

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

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

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 ...