Psychology

The grammar of a god-ocean

To truly explore alien languages, linguists must open themselves to the maximum conceivable degree of cosmic otherness

Eli K P William

Kind of confusing

Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?

Tim Bayne

What do screens depicting serene natural scenes mean to those living in lock-up?

12 minutes

Memories of friends and neighbours light the streets of a seaside village in England

11 minutes

Rethinking adult ADHD

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed

Margaret Sibley

The unseen

Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being

Allison J Pugh

A mother and child bond in an unusual prison visitation space in this poignant portrait

11 minutes

Ingredients for brilliance

An immersive ‘flow state’ isn’t only accessible to great artists and athletes. You can find your flow too. Here’s how

Julia F Christensen

‘Do worms cry?’ – and other questions collected from the mind of a curious child

4 minutes

Our diverse togetherness

While initiatives for inclusive education mean well, schools fail to provide neurodivergent students what they need to flourish

Chelsea Wallis

A ‘little thief’ turned career criminal recounts a life on the wrong side of the law

5 minutes

The entangled brain

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony

Luiz Pessoa

What happened when a crypto scam swept over a sleepy town in the Caucasus

18 minutes

Do button-pushing dogs have something new to say about language?

9 minutes