What if, alongside scheduling appointments, meetings, and social events in your calendar, you started to allocate specific times just to be by yourself – to enjoy solitude? I propose this thought ...

Scientists are uncovering the nature of an elusive mental experience that challenges what it means to be conscious ...

In the short film Malá/The Little One, the filmmaker Diana Cam Van Nguyen animates her own experience of growing up as a ‘third culture kid’ in the Czech Republic, and far from Vietnam, which her ...

For many who are chronically connected, a break from tech sounds appealing. Research is uncovering when and how it helps ...

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Many of us crave trivial details while ignoring much of the world around us. Research helps explain this selective curiosity We are curious creatures. Not (just) strange, but eager for knowledge. We ...

I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...

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Unemployed and isolated, the residents of a hikikomori rehab centre hold up a mirror to a society that’s failing them Chujo has been a hikikomori for two years. He dreams of becoming an opera singer, ...

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I brought my newborn to visit a hospice patient. It took me far from what I’d thought medicine was ...