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How to see an exquisite corpse

A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist idea...

Passion and Palestine

More than any other conflict, Israel/Palestine has provoked extraordinarily ferv...

The listening gift

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke,...

Mother tongue

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Ko...

The ethical dilemma of privacy

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s bluepri...

The birth of naturalism

The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But...

Hearts and brains

Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of ...

The cheekiest potter

A ceramicist puts a playful twist on Italian Renaissance pottery with dirty joke...

A very American fear

Moral panics about erotica have coursed through the country’s history. Why do so...

So many unmarried men

For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that...

Guardians of the gibbons

Humans are both the gravest threat and the greatest hope for the survival of the...

A former slave’s letter to his old master

‘Will you send us our wages for the time that we served you?’ A freed slave answ...

Poverty is not permanent

By understanding the pernicious myths surrounding poverty, we can make progress ...

An Unexpected Irony of Popular Weight-Loss Therapy

New research supports a medical irony: Weight-loss drugs that transform our appe...

Raising Future-Ready Kids

The world is changing faster than ever, and the skills our kids need to thrive a...

How to Find the Truth Where Others Cannot

In this post, I explain how a newly introduced bias--likelihood neglect bias--ca...

Why We Try to Change People—and How to Let Go

As kids, we try remaking our parents into the caregivers we need. As adults, we ...

4 More Steps for Working Effectively With Anger

These four steps can help you move from angry reactions and distress into skillf...

Dehumanized by Design: Empathy in an Automated World

A world driven by metrics and AI requires leaders to balance the quantifiable wi...

How to Prevent Parents' Pipes From Bursting

Parental burnout is rising under financial and emotional pressures. Learn how su...