The metamorphosis of this special bond from feudal to modern times reveals much about the aspirations of different societies ...

Swapping office work for the herding life, Adham finds a sublime freedom in the rugged terrain of the Pyrenees ...

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

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

Empathy is an aesthetic practice that relies on our capacity to delight in, and respond with reverence to, the world around us ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...