essayChildhood and adolescence
Society needs hope
Youths around the world are in a profound crisis of despair. Adults must help them to believe that the future will be better
Carol Graham
videoDemography and migration
The volunteers who offer a last line of care for migrants at a contentious border
30 minutes
essayFamily life
Glorious and mundane
I once exalted in the extraordinary. But as I’ve learned from Virginia Woolf, indelible beauty is also found in the everyday
Diana Saverin
essayEthics
Why love matters most
For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love
Cathy Mason
videoConsciousness and altered states
How an artist learned to ‘co-live’ with the distressing voice in her head
6 minutes
videoHistory
In the face of denial, this film uncovers the hidden scars of Indonesia’s 1998 riots
21 minutes
essayConsciousness and altered states
A simple shift in focus
Life is often experienced as a demanding, ongoing story. But with a little practice, a new space opens for peaceful presence
James Carmody
videoLove and friendship
What does it mean to say goodbye to a creature that doesn’t know you’re leaving?
13 minutes
videoLife stages
Grief, healing and laughter coexist at a unique retreat for widows and widowers
15 minutes
essayLanguage and linguistics
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
essayConsciousness and altered states
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
essayBiology
Memories without brains
Certain slime moulds can make decisions, solve mazes and remember things. What can we learn from the blob?
Matthew Sims
videoConsciousness and altered states
What do screens depicting serene natural scenes mean to those living in lock-up?
12 minutes
videoAnthropology
Margaret Mead explains why the family was entering a brave new world in this 1959 film
29 minutes
videoAgeing and death
Memories of friends and neighbours light the streets of a seaside village in England
11 minutes
essayNeurodiversity
Rethinking adult ADHD
The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed
Margaret Sibley
essayHistory of science
Injury and inhibition
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors
Ben Platts-Mills
essayTechnology and the self
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
videoFamily life
A mother and child bond in an unusual prison visitation space in this poignant portrait
11 minutes
essayHistory of science
Incredible testimonies
In the 1980s, thousands of Americans began to suspect they may have been abducted by aliens. What happened?
Greg Eghigian
essayNeuroscience
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
videoFilm and visual culture
Space and time expand, contract and combust in this propulsive animation
5 minutes
videoChildhood and adolescence
‘Do worms cry?’ – and other questions collected from the mind of a curious child
4 minutes
essayNeurodiversity
Our diverse togetherness
While initiatives for inclusive education mean well, schools fail to provide neurodivergent students what they need to flourish
Chelsea Wallis