Work

videoWork
Like a cheery Sisyphus, Fred dismantles an industrial chimney one brick at a time
12 minutes

videoDemography and migration
In California’s farmlands, immigrant workers share their stories of toil and hope
17 minutes

videoHome
Life moves slowly in a Romanian mountain village, shaped by care and the seasons
13 minutes

videoGender
A catchy tune explains the world’s ‘isms’ – according to your mum doing the laundry
5 minutes

videoTechnology and the self
The commodified childhood – scenes from two sisters’ lives in the creator economy
14 minutes

videoFood and drink
The passage of time is a peculiar thing in a 24-hour diner
14 minutes

essayMedicine
When I lost my intuition
For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t
Ronald W Dworkin

videoMaking
Forging a cello from pieces of wood demands its own form of virtuosity
27 minutes

essayMental health
The last great stigma
Workers with mental illness experience discrimination that would be unthinkable for other health issues. Can this change?
Pernille Yilmam

essayMusic
Folk music was never green
Don’t be swayed by the sound of environmental protest: these songs were first sung in the voice of the cutter, not the tree
Richard Smyth

essayEthics
The scourge of lookism
It is time to take seriously the painful consequences of appearance discrimination in the workplace
Andrew Mason

videoWork
A Swedish expat in the Philippines wonders: what’s up with people sleeping at work?
14 minutes

videoRituals and celebrations
Meet the entrepreneur whose business is crafting perfect peak experiences
12 minutes

videoWork
Does capitalism make ‘non-playable characters’ of us all? An uncanny exploration
21 minutes

essayRace and ethnicity
Battling implicit bias
Training is a cheap solution to a hard problem. It is the systems that allow for biased behaviour that need to change
Jeffrey To

videoPersonality
Why cleaning up crime scenes requires a rare mix of grit and empathy
9 minutes

essayWork
Disengage
Modern life subjects us to all-consuming demands. That’s why we should reflect on what it means to step away from it all
David J Siegel

videoMood and emotion
Moments of poetry pierce through the mundane at a small-town grocery
13 minutes

videoBiology
In 1886, a US agency set out to record new fruit varieties. The results are wondrous
5 minutes

essayWork
Freedom at work
There is always a demand for more jobs. But what makes a job good? For that, Immanuel Kant has an answer
Tyler Re

essayAnthropology
Lessons from the foragers
Hunter-gatherers don’t live in an economic idyll but their deep appreciation of rest puts industrialised work to shame
Vivek V Venkataraman

videoMaking
From log to Go board – the world’s oldest game, made the old-fashioned way
20 minutes

videoPsychiatry and psychotherapy
Pondering the peculiar one-sided intimacy of the client-therapist relationship
3 minutes

essayMusic
Enter the conductrice
Will a new generation of women on the podium perpetuate the tyrannical charisma of their male predecessors or overturn it?
Xenia Hanusiak