I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...

‘A lot of people think they know how to sharpen pencils, but… they don’t really.’ Such is the view of David Rees, a self-styled ‘artisanal pencil-sharpener’ who, at the time of this short film’s ...

When Megan Davies was around 11 years old, family dinners became acutely torturous. It was the sounds her parents and six siblings were making: the chewing, slurping, smacking noises that accompany an ...

is an English teacher who’s interested in the stories people tell themselves and what those reveal. After years of exploring different kinds of therapy, she found an unlikely source of insight in an ...

For many who are chronically connected, a break from tech sounds appealing. Research is uncovering when and how it helps ...

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 ...

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 ...

How did humans create the earliest words? Iconic vocal sounds, which match form and meaning, likely played a key role Language gives us the power to describe, virtually without limit, the countless ...

Through my own struggles and in teaching bibliotherapy to students, I know that books can help to heal minds and hearts A few years ago, I had a breakdown from what would now be termed ‘burnout’. It ...

Planning research projects is a time-honoured intellectual exercise: one that requires both creativity and sharp analytical skills. The purpose of this Guide is to make the process systematic and easy ...

Studies of longterm friends offer surprising insights as to whether friends who are more or less alike tend to endure Bring to mind the friendships in your life: what do you think makes some of them ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...