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You’ve probably noticed yourself moving your hands when you talk, and seen other people doing it too. The more excited you are about what you’re saying, I bet the more likely you are to move your ...

After their plane crashed into the sea, a pilot and his wingwalker get back up in the air and learn to love flying again ...

One of the first things I learnt to say in Dutch was ‘we beat them to death with sticks’. Not exactly standard fare for the first week of language classes, but then again this wasn’t an ordinary ...

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Screens and social media get the blame, but the real problem lies in how we measure intelligence in the first place ...

Next to me, on my desk, is a pile of about 50 books. Some of them I bought. Some I was given by friends. Some were sent by people I didn’t even know, who thought I might be interested in their work.

A few years ago, Jessica Pan – a young journalist living in London and with the world at her feet – found herself at a low point. Life had become predictable and samey. ‘I realised that I was using ...

Since the AIDS pandemic, the LGBTQ+ community has been reinventing funerary rituals to better reflect the way people lived ...

When our self-respect, status and social identity are threatened, we ought to defend ourselves and shame our wrongdoers ...

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