How much the sexes differ psychologically depends on how fair and wealthy a country is. But not in the way you’d think Surprisingly, researchers have sometimes found the opposite to be true: that ...

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AI can take over many writing tasks. But there is something irreplaceable about a text with an author standing behind it ...

The Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969 was an extraordinary scientific achievement. It was also an extraordinary epistemological achievement. Not only did a man walk on the Moon but, almost ...

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 ...

The aim is to do it in good style’: an ageing mountaineer reflects on the risks and rewards of a life of adventure ...

There’s an app that makes the world look filthier. By exposing germaphobes to their fears, it can help break the cycle ...

Rediscovering an André Breton essay about the value of embracing randomness, I realised this has been my life philosophy ...

For the Brooklyn-based Colombian American filmmaker Gabriella Canal, childhood safety and comfort were centred on the singing voice of her beloved grandfather, Cesar Augusto Rojas Franco. In When ...

I grew up knowing the first day of deer-hunting season without ever looking at a calendar. In rural southern Indiana, the ...