Creativity, or the ability to ‘think outside of the box’, is a wonderful gift. It helps you solve problems, create unique things, and live a life that is true to who you are. But it is easier said ...

Not many people stop to think about the blueprint they use for romantic relationships. Chances are that, while growing up, you were given an implicit step-by-step guide on how to love romantically, as ...

Screens and social media get the blame, but the real problem lies in how we measure intelligence in the first place ...

Sophists like Protagoras used the rhetoric of antilogic to escape from the illusion of truth and make room for uncertainty In Syracuse, 2,500 years ago, there was a famous teacher of rhetoric named ...

Regardless of whether humans do or don’t have free will, psychological research shows it’s beneficial to act as if you do All my life, I’ve struggled with the question of whether humans have ‘free ...

Suppose that you’re talking with a couple of friends about whether one survives biological death. Your view is that humans are purely physical creatures, which means that there is no non-physical soul ...

On warm summer evenings, the groundhog who lives beneath my deck likes to climb atop a bench and look across the field. As I watch, I sometimes wonder what is on her mind while she surveys her domain.

Take a moment to call to mind a few of your fondest memories, the kind of memory so vivid that you can picture and describe it in rich detail. You might recall a vacation with friends, a concert, the ...

So often people claim ‘I didn’t mean to’, yet they fail to realise that plagiarism is more like speeding than theft Most college professors have had to deal with plagiarised papers from their students ...

Stretch out your arms to their fullest extent getting the tips of your fingertips on your right hand as far from the fingertips on your left hand as you can. Depending on where you are reading this, ...

These experiences – which are more of an illusion than a hallucination – can be a healthy part of the grieving process In the weeks after the neurologist Oliver Sacks died, his friend Jonathan Weiner ...

A few years ago, Jessica Pan – a young journalist living in London and with the world at her feet – found herself at a low point. Life had become predictable and samey. ‘I realised that I was using ...