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 ...

If embodied aesthetic engagement comprised empathy’s principal definition in the early decades of the 20th century, by the time of the Second World War, this meaning faded. Empathy’s interpersonal ...

Other practices like sermons, yoga and retreats can also trigger ‘spiritual boredom’. Here’s why it’s normal and even useful ...

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 ...

She wasn’t ours. We knew that. We reminded ourselves of this constantly, as the days turned to weeks and then months. We had ...

You might wonder how to increase your enjoyment of literary works, how you might amplify literature’s value, and savour more fully the pleasures of language and form, of idea and insight that works of ...

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 ...