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 ...

How to gain more from your reading There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading by Robert DiYanni ...

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 ...

Andrei A Buckareff is professor of philosophy and co-director of the cognitive science programme at Marist College in New York. His works include Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal ...

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 ...

Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...

We were her foster family for two and a half years. We had no claim to her, but she became part of us ...