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The full-service grandad
I thought I was a present father; my sons said otherwise. When my granddaughter arrived I made an offer.
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4 weeks ago
When you feel moral disgust, what’s the emotion telling you?
Some actions and words provoke instant revulsion. To know if we can trust that gut feeling, we should probe why we have it.
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4 weeks, 1 day ago
Can he teach the teachers?
The neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene wants to bring four decades of findings on how the brain learns into the classroom. But evidence alone can’t ove…
1 month ago
The way we talk to bots matters even if they aren’t conscious
If more and more of our daily interactions are ungracious exchanges with machines, we should expect it to change us.
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1 month ago
The evil eye is irrational. Abandon it at your peril
So many of the world’s superstitions have been supplanted by rational thinking. Why does one of the oldest beliefs persist?.
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1 month ago
How to cope with the stress of anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice
A queer psychologist shares skills from dialectical behaviour therapy to help you cope and find joy in a stigmatising world.
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1 month ago
What does it mean to have relationship ambivalence?
When a relationship provokes both strong positive and negative feelings in you, it can take a toll – here’s what’s going on.
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1 month ago
The softness of metal
Watching a seated Ozzy play his final gig, my ankle broken, I’m in tears – this couldn’t be more metal.
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1 month, 1 week ago
Maxxing treats life as a problem when it’s a mystery
The philosopher Gabriel Marcel offers the antidote to a grotesque new ideology: don’t fix existence, be open to it.
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1 month, 1 week ago
Go ahead, jump on the bandwagon
Rooting for a team and other collective experiences are opportunities to be seized – even if only once in a while.
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1 month, 1 week ago