Talking to teens reveals a hidden sophistication to their media use. Rather than policing it, maybe we could learn from it ...

A filmmaker’s tender depiction of his family shows his mother as a superhero, dedicated to caring for those around her ...

completed her PhD at the Paris Brain Institute. She now holds a postdoctoral position at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she continues to investigate the impact of sleep on creativity.

is associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, US. He is the author of Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2018) and Marion ...

is a doctoral candidate studying the psychology of place and wellbeing at the University of Florida. She takes a socioecological approach to understand how people make meaning in places and, in turn, ...

is a cognitive neuroscientist studying socioemotional aspects of brain and behaviour in health and psychiatric conditions at the LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Germany. is an Assyriologist using corpus ...

In his brief animation The Bear in the Shower, the US artist and animator Tom Schroeder finds a bit of existential poetry in a peculiar, somewhat low-stakes crisis his wife encountered when she ...

is the host of the Stressed But Well Dressed podcast, a weekly show that explores the link between clothes, confidence and mindset. She lives in the UK. Until a few years ago, deciding what to wear to ...

My editor needs this essay from me by the end of the day today. I have plenty of time to finish it before then. And yet, even as I resolve to get it finished, I recognise the possibility that I won’t.

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