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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 ...
Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...
Some musical rhythms are built to get us bobbing, foot-tapping or dancing. Researchers show how rhythmic complexity matters ...
Other practices like sermons, yoga and retreats can also trigger ‘spiritual boredom’. Here’s why it’s normal and even useful ...
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.
Far more than an evolutionary imperative, caregiving is a gateway to our deepest humanity, and may explain our intelligence ...
She wasn’t ours. We knew that. We reminded ourselves of this constantly, as the days turned to weeks and then months. We had ...
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 ...
Formality: roughly, how formal and public a relationship is vs informal and private; Activeness: how close and involved vs distant; Exchange: how much it involves trading concrete resources like money ...
In our world of instant gratification – from Netflix binges to social media likes to online pornography – it’s worth asking: does feeling good always mean living well? Plato foresaw the dangers of ...