How The Philosophy Behind The Japanese Art Form Of Kintsugi Can Help Us Navigate Failure
Ella Tennant, Keele University In our 20s and 30s, there can be immense pressure to measure up to the expectations of society, our families, our […]
Ella Tennant, Keele University In our 20s and 30s, there can be immense pressure to measure up to the expectations of society, our families, our […]
By Ceren Kabukcu, University of Liverpool We humans can’t stop playing with our food. Just think of all the different ways of serving potatoes – […]
Ariadna Garcia-Prado, Universidad Pública de Navarra; Paula González, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, and Yolanda Rebollo Sanz, Universidad Pablo de Olavide In Spain we suffered one […]
Linus Owens, Middlebury Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send […]
Oona Freudenthal, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) When was the last time you read the ingredient label on a bottle of shampoo? Have […]
Andrea Sturchio, Karolinska Institutet; Kariem Ezzat, Karolinska Institutet, and Samir EL Andaloussi, Karolinska Institutet In 1906, Alois Alzheimer, a psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, reported “a peculiar […]
By Jenna Christine / Contributor Are you set on earning a college degree in economics? If so, you already have an advantage in the educational […]
By Emily Smith-Greenaway, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Ashton Verdery, Penn State; Michelle Livings, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, […]
We often think of babies as blank canvases with little ability to learn during the first few weeks of life. But babies actually start processing language and speech incredibly early. Even while in the womb, they learn to discern voices, along with some speech sounds. At birth, they already prefer speech sounds over other types of non-language sounds.
By Joanna Moncrieff, UCL and Mark Horowitz, UCL For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a “chemical […]
By Tom Cameron, University of Essex Cod “supergenes” have shed light on how they respond to overfishing, and these supergenes could make them more resilient […]
BY Peter Veals, University of Utah The winter Olympics conjure up images of snowy mountain ranges, frozen ice rinks and athletes in cold-weather gear. And […]
By Dr Alex Connock, University of Oxford and Professor Andrew Stephen, University of Oxford Not a day passes without a fascinating snippet on the ethical […]
By Brad McKenna, University of East Anglia and Wenjie Cai, University of Greenwich It is not surprising that many of us have been suffering from […]
By Steve Taylor, Leeds Beckett University It’s human instinct to avoid suffering and try to make life as comfortable and easy as possible. But paradoxically, […]