Psychology
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Subcultures
Drop into London’s eclectic skate scene, where newbies and old-timers find community
5 minutes
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Cognition and intelligence
What’s this buzz about bees having culture? Inside a groundbreaking experiment
8 minutes
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Stories and literature
The best stories smell
When scents are used to intensify a narrative, they heighten young readers’ emotions and enrich their memory banks
Natalia Kucirkova
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Cognition and intelligence
Are you an artistic genius?
Maybe not, but if that’s the threshold you use for creativity in your life, you are coming at the problem all wrong
James C Kaufman
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Film and visual culture
The old-time cinema experience endures in a quiet corner of Japan
5 minutes
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Teaching and learning
Learning styles don’t exist
A teaching approach that is based on students’ preferences sounds laudable. But this misunderstands how learning happens
Carl Hendrick
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Philosophy of mind
Philosophy’s blindspot
Education has long been ignored by contemporary philosophers. That is a myopic view that must change
David Bakhurst
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Teaching and learning
The vulva dialogues – inside a sex-ed class that rebels against genitalia shame
11 minutes
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Sex and sexuality
What does the Dutch model of comprehensive, ‘shame-free’ sex-ed look like?
9 minutes
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Knowledge
Philosophy with children
Kids don’t just say ‘the darndest things’. Playful and probing, they can be closer to the grain of life’s deepest questions
Jana Mohr Lone
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Thinkers and theories
With charisma to spare
Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist, was an iconic teacher eclipsed by his students, Freud and Husserl among them
John A Goldsmith
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Teaching and learning
A retired teacher embarks on a mission to find out what became of a beloved student
16 minutes
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Education
Education, unchained
Rousseau’s child-centred ideals are now commonplace but his truly radical vision of educational freedom still eludes us
James Brooke-Smith
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Neuroscience
Parents have long suspected Pokémon rewires kids’ brains. Now there’s evidence
7 minutes
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Family life
Kid culture
In most cultures, kids tag along with grownups or mooch with friends but American life is heavy with ‘kid-friendly’ artifice
Sarah Menkedick
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Teaching and learning
I was homeschooled for eight years: here’s what I recommend
Mordechai Levy-Eichel
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Cognition and intelligence
Talent, you’re born with. Creativity, you can grow yourself
Jyoti Mishra
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Teaching and learning
It’s great to learn music as a child – except when it’s no fun at all
10 minutes
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Teaching and learning
The school where children make the rules and learn what they want to learn
28 minutes
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Animals and humans
A gentle stroll through an owl sanctuary might just restore your faith in humanity
28 minutes
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Mood and emotion
Trigger warnings don’t help people cope with distressing material
Christian Jarrett
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Philosophy of science
Science is deeply imaginative: why is this treated as a secret?
Tom McLeish
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Teaching and learning
The value of shame
Immanuel Kant held that moral education is hydraulic: shame squashes down our vices, making space for virtue to rise up
Louise Chapman
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Education
Why streaming kids according to ability is a terrible idea
Oscar Hedstrom