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Can he teach the teachers?
The neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene wants to bring four decades of findings on how the brain learns into the classroom. But evidence alone can’t overcome the politics in education.
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The way we talk to bots matters even if they aren’t conscious
If more and more of our daily interactions are ungracious exchanges with machines, we should expect it to change us.
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The evil eye is irrational. Abandon it at your peril
So many of the world’s superstitions have been supplanted by rational thinking. Why does one of the oldest beliefs persist?.
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How to cope with the stress of anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice
A queer psychologist shares skills from dialectical behaviour therapy to help you cope and find joy in a stigmatising world.
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What does it mean to have relationship ambivalence?
When a relationship provokes both strong positive and negative feelings in you, it can take a toll – here’s what’s going on.
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The softness of metal
Watching a seated Ozzy play his final gig, my ankle broken, I’m in tears – this couldn’t be more metal.
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Maxxing treats life as a problem when it’s a mystery
The philosopher Gabriel Marcel offers the antidote to a grotesque new ideology: don’t fix existence, be open to it.
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Go ahead, jump on the bandwagon
Rooting for a team and other collective experiences are opportunities to be seized – even if only once in a while.
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Terminal lucidity: when dying dementia patients regain awareness
The reports span centuries and cultures. If they’re real, memory and identity might be far more recoverable than we thought.
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Say yes to regret
After my husband died, I fell into a dark ruminative spiral. The way back would begin at 2pm tomorrow.
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How to uncover your blind spots
We all have parts of ourselves others know but we don’t. Gain greater self-awareness by seeing yourself from the outside in.
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Why women’s laughter has long been treated as a threat
Traditional patriarchy has always told women not to laugh. Today, female laughter still disturbs a male-dominated world.
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Impatience is an emotion, not a trait
Watching Penelope’s heroic wait in The Odyssey made me lament my impatience. But maybe I’ve been thinking about it wrong.
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How to be a word detective
Etymology unravels the mysteries of language and the hidden webs that link people across the world. Here’s how to dive in.
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Lessons from Wyatt Earp country
How does a man show up for his community? I learned from an old farmer on the edge of the desert.
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Is it morally wrong to not take care of yourself?
The philosophical debate goes on. But our research on self-obligations suggests there’s a common, consequential view.
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Absence of presence and presence of absence
Mindfulness experts teach us to be present in the moment. I suggest an antidote – a meditation that’s focused on absence.
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Why you should try living without free will for two weeks
Set aside the philosophical debates and act as if there is no free will. It leads to less blaming and better questions.
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Logistics underpins power – and logistics is female
A women’s history of logistics from the battlefields of 19th-century Europe to middle-class households and sex trafficking.
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The human frequency
With Radio Paradise, William Goldsmith built an internet radio station that’s become a living argument for taste, trust and the art of choosing what comes next.
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How to thrive as an adult with ADHD
Use ‘mindful self-coaching’ to help yourself overcome everyday ADHD challenges, from procrastination to feelings of overwhelm.
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How to rediscover your purpose later in life
You don’t have to ‘reinvent’ yourself to live happily after 60. There’s a better approach grounded in lifespan psychology.
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Arabic has four words for sadness. Philosophy explains why
More subtly nuanced than standard diagnostic categories, Arabic lets speakers articulate a world of emotional experiences.
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Don’t let nature slip out of reach
Research on the ‘extinction of experience’ suggests many of us are losing vital connections to the natural world.
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Glass eggs
When the future I’d been planning lay shattered at my feet, freezing my eggs offered a fragile hope.
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Sometimes, the road to virtue comes by way of vice
To work your character into better shape, be like a carpenter who fixes warped wood by bending it the opposite way.
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Slow down, it’s what your brain has been begging for
It’s no small task to live a life of sustained attention. So slow down, and give your brain a break to do its work.
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How to be indistractable
Stop blaming technology – distraction starts within. Manage your inner triggers to enjoy greater focus and a fuller life.
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The satisfaction of doing work that lasts
In Studs Terkel’s oral history ‘Working’, some of the people happiest with their work have something in common.
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Writing letters is a spiritual practice for our age of speed
Handwritten letters seem like a remnant of pre-online life, but they connect us to ourselves and each other like nothing else.
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Two actors, no director, one dreamlike play
After a painful breakup, I found myself agreeing to perform in a surreal play, dressed in my pyjamas.
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Being in a crowd doesn’t make you part of a mindless mob
It’s often assumed people lose their minds in a crowd. Research on riots, festivals and sports tells a more uplifting story.
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How to think like a Hegelian
For Hegel, your thoughts aren’t trapped in a cerebral box: they act on the world, making meaning and expressing your freedom.
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Climbing gives me a break from my brain
When I took up indoor climbing, I didn’t anticipate the special appeal it held for someone with ADHD.
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Mother Teresa was virtuous, but she was wrong about virtue
There’s more to virtue than how we treat other individuals. ‘Structure-facing virtues’ tie the personal to the big picture.
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How to enter a state of flow
That moment of sweet immersion in the task at hand: that’s flow. With some strategy, you can experience it more often.
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Free-range fraud
An animal rights group offered a rare job opportunity. How hard could it be to play along?.
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Why we should learn to embrace the middlebrow
Stranded between ‘low’ and ‘high’ art, the middlebrow is unfairly condemned. It’s a ‘both/and’ mode capable of greatness.
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In praise of not-quite-friends
Learning about the Korean concept of ‘jeong’ helped me understand the importance of my not-quite-friends at the gym.
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After the performance
For 19 years, the NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony mastered the version of himself the world demanded. Retired from basketball, he confronts a harder question: who is he now?.
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