The muscle metaphor based on ego-depletion theory hasn’t survived scrutiny. But there’s an alternative that holds promise ...

Reckoning with the complex history of dignity reveals its fragility and what Hannah Arendt recognised as its conditionality ...

is an artist, writer and mudlark who has spent years discovering objects from centuries past in London’s River Thames.

Downtime is undervalued in today’s busy, always-on world. But for most of human history, rest – time in which we can recharge the mental and physical batteries we use while labouring – was prized as a ...

When strangers ask about my disability, why I move around with crutches and a wheelchair, I tell them I used to be a pole ...

Have you ever had that feeling in life when you pause to look around, and realise you don’t like what you see? Maybe you’ve been working in a vacuous job for years, renting in a noisy neighbourhood, ...

It’s easy to mistake our conscious experience for an ongoing, accurate account of reality. After all, the information we recover from our senses is, of course, the only window we’ll ever have into the ...

In 392 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I outlawed one of the oldest and most well-established mystery cults in the Greek-speaking world, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had taken place for more than ...

Material possessions can be powerfully alluring – whether it’s buying new stuff we don’t need or can’t afford, or holding on to things for way too long. At the extremes, these inclinations can become ...

To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...

Being ghosted can feel shocking. But we need to get used to it because there’s no other way to cope with our world ...