It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can’t be explained by our need for rest ...

is a doctoral candidate in social/personality psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Emotion, among ...

poetry as I need it . Like the negative space against which words become visible (voids emphasised in ...

Empathy comes in two distinct forms: affective empathy is our instinct for mirroring the emotions of others, while cognitive empathy is our conscious ability to understand someone else’s perspective.

is a PhD candidate in toxicology at Iowa State University. Many people believe that chemicals, particularly the man-made ones, are highly dangerous. After all, more than 80,000 chemicals have been ...

How an artist learned to ‘co-live’ with the distressing voice in her head ...

Suppose we could talk to whales – should we? Experts explore the scientific and philosophical challenges of decoding whale song ...

is a research fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection (2021) and The ...

is professor of economics at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of Richer and More Equal (2024).

is the Theda Perdue Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature (2009) ...

is a research fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection (2021) and The ...

is a writer, an urban farmer, and an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. His latest books include The Great Ages of Discovery: How Western Civilization Learned About a Wider World (2021) ...