After their plane crashed into the sea, a pilot and his wingwalker get back up in the air and learn to love flying again ...

Friends are a treasure. In an uncertain world, they provide a comforting sense of stability and connection. We laugh together and cry together, sharing our good times and supporting each other through ...

One of the first things I learnt to say in Dutch was ‘we beat them to death with sticks’. Not exactly standard fare for the first week of language classes, but then again this wasn’t an ordinary ...

Material possessions can be powerfully alluring – whether it’s buying new stuff we don’t need or can’t afford, or holding on to things for way too long. At the extremes, these inclinations can become ...

The history of ‘normal’ tells a tale of prejudice and bad maths. The most usual thing about people is how much we differ Have you ever wondered whether or not you are normal? Think about the last time ...

What makes a work of visual art beautiful? Researchers in aesthetics have identified various physical characteristics – such as symmetry and visual complexity – that seem to affect people’s ...

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

Physics tells us that time doesn’t flow like a river, as Heraclitus claimed. Why then do we feel like we’re swept along? What could be more universal and obvious than this flowing? And yet things are ...

After rediscovering letters her father sent her from prison in 2005, the Czech Vietnamese filmmaker Diana Cam Van Nguyen was surprised to realise that she was never closer to him than during his ...

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 ...

There’s an important aspect of personality that you might have never heard of, at least if you are not a psychologist. It’s called disinhibition, and learning more about it could help you better ...

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 ...