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Like the fertile soil of a well-kept garden, a life of splendid, utter uselessness yields abundance beyond our immediate aims John Alec Baker was not an ornithologist by profession. He had a regular ...

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How did the most influential friendship in the history of psychoanalysis fall apart? The historic break-up of Freud and Jung ...

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You’ve probably seen a film or television show where an Autistic person is portrayed as a loner. And, while media representations aren’t always realistic, perhaps you have met someone like this in ...

Ever since Plato started telling stories about people trapped in caves, philosophers have pondered the relationship between the mind and reality. How can we be sure that the world we think we know is ...

When brothers and sisters victimise each other, the harms can be serious. But it’s never too late to heal old wounds The vast majority of us grow up with one or more siblings, often forming powerful ...

The psychology of ostracism helps explain why you can sometimes shrug it off, yet other times feel the urge to lash out Have you ever felt invisible, ignored or left out? Maybe your friends made plans ...

Humans grow up with a powerful drive to learn how things work and why certain patterns and properties exist in the world. Wonder, a word with multiple related meanings, has one sense that captures ...

The other day, I found out that one of my close friends had an extra ticket to a football playoff game, and he invited another friend instead of me. Hurt by this apparent slight, I thought I must have ...