The contemporary obsession with feeling good might mean we’re losing sight of what makes life genuinely meaningful ...

I swim to think and to stay afloat in an ever-wetter world ‘The Beames my Bones, my flesh the plankes’: in pools, I glimpse the future of our terrestrial bodies in an ocean world by Steve Mentz SACRED ...

Formality: roughly, how formal and public a relationship is vs informal and private; Exchange: how much it involves trading ...

Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...

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

Something curious happens in two people’s brains during supportive interactions. It could help explain their emotional power ...

Intrusive thoughts about doing bad things are common, but for people with OCD they provoke deep fears about the self ...

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

Far more than an evolutionary imperative, caregiving is a gateway to our deepest humanity, and may explain our intelligence ...

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

is a researcher of near-death experiences and the afterlife across cultures and throughout history. He is the author of Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations (2009), Near-Death ...

Another major framework we can use to study how people judge right and wrong draws on the philosophical traditions of consequentialism and deontology. In the consequentialist tradition, the morality ...