For me and many others, contemplating death has clarified what matters. These curiosity-based exercises will get you started ...

Clinicians have long recognised the link between worry and planning. New research asks what this means for managing anxiety ...

is an evolutionary social psychologist with broad interests in how the recurrent challenges of our distant past help us understand our motivational states today. He is the author of The Social Leap ...

Some masculine norms are a straightjacket, depriving men of the connections they need. It takes bravery to leave them behind ...

I always thought I could be an asocial primate. I cannot.’ How microbes helped James connect with the human-scale world ...

A ‘no pain, no gain’ mentality might make sense when striving for change – but don’t confuse discomfort and distress ...

is a London-based writer and consultant on science, technology and the future. A former editor-in-chief of New Scientist, he is the author of The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change ...

Young Woman with Her Hand over Her Mouth (c1875) by Edgar Degas. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His latest book is On the Temporality of Emotions: An Essay on Grief, Anger and Love (2022).

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