Being ghosted can feel shocking. But we need to get used to it because there’s no other way to cope with our world ...

Understanding the intuitive power of the word ‘natural’ could help inform choices about what to eat or what to do when ill ...

Destructive and beautiful all at once – an artist on the spectrum captures the ‘souls’ of machines from an Alaskan cabin ...

‘A lot of people think they know how to sharpen pencils, but… they don’t really.’ Such is the view of David Rees, a self-styled ‘artisanal pencil-sharpener’ who, at the time of this short film’s ...

I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...

Playing online games. Sorting my considerable collection of knitting yarn. Reading reviews of gadgets even after I’ve made a purchase. What do these activities have in common? They’re all things I’ve ...

In 392 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I outlawed one of the oldest and most well-established mystery cults in the Greek-speaking world, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had taken place for more than ...

To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...

Dr Pia Callesen is a therapist and metacognitive specialist, managing several clinics in Denmark and providing metacognitive therapy online in English. She has a PhD from Manchester University and ...

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.

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 ...

Aphantasia veils the past and the future from the mind’s eye. That can be a gift to philosophers like Derek Parfit and me There’s an early memory from my childhood, representative of its peak ...