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We think of tears as an overflow of emotion, but an evolutionary lens shows they’re a rational form of social signalling ...

Even in ancient Greece, Plato questioned whether gender norms around masculinity were good for men’s individual freedom ...

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Surveying his life, Carl Jung reflects on the collective unconscious, his clash with Freud and humanity’s uncertain future ...

After fleeing war-torn Liberia, an outsider artist creates haunting portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands ...

The diplomatic intervention by a philosopher on a president shows the extraordinary consequences of unlikely meetings ...

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Aphantasia veils the past and the future from the mind’s eye. That can be a gift to philosophers like Derek Parfit and me There’s an early memory from my childhood, representative of its peak ...

Step 1: Assume nothing and find out what you really know. To think like an expert detective, you have to embrace a so-called ‘investigative mindset’. The terms ‘possibly’ and ‘could’ should be your ...

Last September, I took part in a ‘Deep Time Walk’: a 4.6 km hike through the Welsh countryside, mirroring 4.6 billion years of Earth history. As the kilometres passed, our guide took us from the ...

As the father of twins, I could hardly feel more frazzled. But my brain age might paint a different, more youthful, picture ...