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‘Resilience’ has become one of our favourite compliments. People praise resilient children, resilient workers, resilient patients, resilient communities. The word shows up in school mission statements ...

My first camera was a small camcorder – about the size and shape of an iPod – that could upload videos straight to YouTube. For a pre-teen from the New York City suburbs in 2009, it felt like the ...

Awkwardness is ultimately a form of anxiety – often an uncomfortable, self-conscious feeling that the social order has been punctured in some small way. Yet there can be something quite funny about ...

Some people might think that the consequences of having to avoid heights are minimal. But imagine you’re invited to a job interview on the 16th floor of a city office block. Or that your kids are ...

The thought experiment known as Newcomb’s paradox pits participants against a supercomputer with near-perfect predictive ...

Online spaces at the nexus of nutrition and wellbeing are teeming with their own form of junk food – quick fixes, sponsored ‘advice’ and pseudoscience conflated with the real thing. However, as the US ...

Imagine two friends, Elena and Leo, are heading to a party. Leo asks Elena whether Sophie is already there. Elena answers: ‘Yes, she is at the party,’ because Sophie had told her earlier that she’d be ...

In the mid-15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg began experimenting with movable type, the scribes who had spent their lives copying manuscripts by hand could not have known they were witnessing the ...

You and your friends are out for dinner at an Italian restaurant, and the waiter lists a few specials for you to choose from. You decide on the tagliatelle. Your friend closest to you leans over and ...

The sense that a dead person is still with us is both eerie and common: can we find a naturalistic explanation for it?

I grew up knowing the first day of deer-hunting season without ever looking at a calendar. In rural southern Indiana, the signs were everywhere: pre-dawn pick-up trucks parked along gravel roads, ...