Human nature
Gender
idea
What sex-difference science misses about the messy reality of sex
by Jeffrey W Lockhart
Human nature
idea
Our innate ideas prevent us seeing what is innate in human nature
by Iris Berent
Transcendent experience
film
We soar, we plunge, we labour: here is all peak human experience
18 mins
Emotions
idea
Are you sure you know what emotions are?
by Andrew Ortony
Animals
idea
What our use of animal-based slurs and endearments says about us
by David Egan
Sex and sexuality
film
The filmmakers who transform fantasies into videos with an audience of one
13 mins
Social history
idea
The rise of the bystander as a complicit historical actor
by Dennis Klein
Human nature
idea
The radical aristocrat who put kindness on a scientific footing
by Lydia Syson
Animals
film
The zoo is a funhouse mirror that reflects and refracts the peculiarities of being human
12 mins