Swapping office work for the herding life, Adham finds a sublime freedom in the rugged terrain of the Pyrenees ...

The metamorphosis of this special bond from feudal to modern times reveals much about the aspirations of different societies ...

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

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

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

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung surveying his life and extraordinarily influential career at the age of 84, just two years before his death.

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

Some musical rhythms are built to get us bobbing, foot-tapping or dancing. Researchers show how rhythmic complexity matters ...

Yet another important factor to consider in memories for fiction is believability. This is distinct from ‘ontological intuitiveness’ (our sense that dragons are not real or that humans cannot fly). It ...

We live in an era of absurd musical abundance. Streaming services put the (in)complete history of recorded music at our fingertips, with sophisticated recommendation algorithms that promise to tailor ...

From the docks of 12th-century Genoa to the gambling tables of today, risk is a story that we tell ourselves about the future Mediterranean shipping could be enormously profitable, but it was risky. A ...