Psychology
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Nature and landscape
Take a serene hike through an ancient forest, inspired by a Miyazaki masterpiece
6 minutes
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Economic history
Deservingness
In post-communist eastern and central Europe, history is intensely personal and economics is saturated with moral feeling
Till Hilmar
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Illness and disease
More than pink
The culture around breast cancer is full of positivity and femininity. But it comes at the expense of the marginalised
Philippa Hetherington
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Spirituality
Trek alongside spiritual pilgrims on a treacherous journey across Pakistan
6 minutes
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Philosophy of language
Quantum poetics
How Borges and Heisenberg converged on the notion that language both enables and interferes with our grasp of reality
William Egginton
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Meaning and the good life
The world turns vivid, strange and philosophical for one plane crash survivor
16 minutes
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Art
Inside the unique creative space where ‘outsider’ artists find their form
14 minutes
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Mood and emotion
When grief doesn’t end
Suffering the sudden death of a loved person leaves some survivors stuck in grief. Can they win their lives back – and how?
Martin W Angler
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Gender
When aggression is viewed as brilliance, it hurts women in science, and science itself
5 minutes
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Religion
From God’s shoes to satellites in heaven – children weigh in on religion
8 minutes
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Analysis for the people
Group therapy promised to be both democratic and radical, but it failed to take hold. Has its time finally come?
Jess Cotton
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Technology and the self
Why we should worry less about ‘sentient’ AIs and more about what we’re teaching them
16 minutes
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Sleep and dreams
How might the dreamworlds of other animals differ from our own?
8 minutes
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Home
Whether above a pub or in a castle, our childhood homes leave an indelible mark
15 minutes
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Art
Negative capability
When it comes to our complicated, undecipherable feelings, art prompts a self-understanding far beyond the wellness industry
Aparna Chivukula
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Biography and memoir
The busboy who comforted Robert F Kennedy as he lay dying shares his story
3 minutes
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Stories and literature
Solace and saudade
In the face of an inscrutable, indifferent universe, Pessoa suggests we cultivate a certain longing for the elusive horizon
Jonardon Ganeri & Sarah Seymour
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Information and communication
To converse well
A good conversation bridges the distances between people and imbues life with pleasure and a sense of discovery
Paula Marantz Cohen
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Biography and memoir
A young autistic man’s heartfelt letter to the beloved mother he lost
12 minutes
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Human evolution
How to grow a human
Our childhood is preposterously long compared to other animals. Is it the secret to our evolutionary success?
Brenna Hassett
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Family life
The extraordinary story of a Black Holocaust survivor, as told by his daughter
21 minutes
essay
Personality
The myth of mirrored twins
What do the lives of twins tell us about heritability, selfhood and the age-old debate between nature and nurture?
Gavin Evans
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Family life
Amazonian childcare
In the eyes of the Runa people, Western kids grow up indulged, over-mothered and incapable of facing outward to the world
Francesca Mezzenzana
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Death
Toby ponders the inner lives of the sheep that roam atop his parents’ graves
6 minutes