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Photo of an office building’s facade with illuminated windows revealing people working inside at desks and meeting spaces.

Personality

idea

Introverts are excluded unfairly in an extraverts’ world

One in three people are introverts, physically present, but culturally absent. We shouldn’t have to change to be heard

by Noa Herz

Painting of early hominids using tools in a rocky landscape with scattered animal skulls and a distant horizon.

Human nature

idea

Do humans really have a killer instinct or is that just manly fancy?

The killer-instinct idea achieved such cultural power because it came embedded in gripping stories about human nature

by Nadine Weidman

Photo of two people on a rocky hilltop under a vast sky, one pointing. Snow-dusted landscape and clouds in the background.

Nature and the environment

guide

How to rewild yourself

You didn’t evolve to live in this techno-industrialised world. Find health and happiness by embracing your wild nature

by Jessica Carew Kraft

Illustration of a person with curly hair, wearing large glasses and a sleeveless top, looking back over their shoulder.

Love

film

Surreal vignettes form a meditation on love in this Oscar-winning short

Directed by Alberto Mielgo

A cheerful picnic by a river with adults and children relaxing on blankets under a blue sky with scattered clouds.

Human nature

idea

For a happier life, we must balance two old psychological needs

Personal autonomy is abundant in the modern world. As a result, many of us get what we want but not what we need

by William von Hippel

Historic photo of a group gathered near ruins of a building after destruction. A leafless tree stands in foreground.

Human nature

idea

The radical aristocrat who put kindness on a scientific footing

Peter Kropotkin took on social Darwinism, casting evolution in a cooperative light and laying the groundwork for mutual aid

by Lydia Syson

A blonde woman in a white robe smiles in a bathroom with two people filming in the background, bathed in soft lighting.

Sex and sexuality

film

The filmmakers who transform fantasies into videos with an audience of one

Directed by Chung Nguyen

Photo of two people on a beach cooling off under a shower, with tall buildings and umbrellas in the background.

Gender

idea

What sex-difference science misses about the messy reality of sex

Men aren’t from Mars, women aren’t from Venus, and other persistent myths derived from debunked sex-difference science

by Jeffrey W Lockhart

A painting of a woman with brown hair in a white blouse with a large green bow against a dark blue background.

Emotions

idea

Are you sure you know what emotions are?

It’s tricky to define what an emotion is: is surprise one, or something else? Here are a few simple rules to get started

by Andrew Ortony

Black-and-white photo of photographers taking pictures of a meerkat at a zoo, with onlookers in the background.

Animals

film

The zoo is a funhouse mirror that reflects and refracts the peculiarities of being human

Directed by Bert Haanstra