Growing up, most of us are taught that honesty is the best policy. However, we soon learn that this ‘policy’ resides more in theory than in practice. On average, people tell one or two lies every day.

Though it’s intuitive that we’re vulnerable to these more nebulous forces, the mechanism by which they harm us is less ...

Alizeh Kohari is a writer, editor and reporter who divides her time between Pakistan and the United States. She most recently worked at Global Press, training reporters across the world, from Mexico ...

You likely know the feeling: you’re in a normal conversation when, all of a sudden, it’s interrupted by a frustrating glitch. You’re sure you know the word you’re looking for, your brain seems to be ...

How do you move through the world? With a plan and destination in mind, headphones or a car stereo drowning out the world, perhaps? In this short film, the filmmaker Mykhailo Bogdanov makes a ...

Trying to fix your self-image can trap you in the problem. The awe of nature truly heals by taking you outside of yourself ...

Musical, playful and absurd – how one Icelandic artist forged a philosophy of creativity by simply giving things a try ...

Like a pair of chopsticks, this Beijing couple have been making art – independently, in tandem – for more than 20 years ...

Frank Borman, William Anders and James Lovell – escaped Earth’s orbit, travelling 240,000 miles further than anyone before them, becoming the first human beings to see Earth from the Moon’s orbit. The ...

As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, ...

There are many kinds of pseudosciences: astrology, homeopathy, flat-Earthism, anti-vaxx. These ‘fields’ traffic in bizarre claims with scientific pretensions. On a surface level, these claims seem to ...

Aphantasia veils the past and the future from the mind’s eye. That can be a gift to philosophers like Derek Parfit and me There’s an early memory from my childhood, representative of its peak ...