Are “digital detox” guides worth the trouble?
Smartphone use is a polarising issue - but can we find better ways of using technology?
Mind, Body & Life
In search of the “nature cure”
We have always believed in the healing power of our natural landscape, one way or another – but has it been overstated?
You don’t know whether to laugh or cry
Laurie Taylor on the mystery of memory.
The rise of Brazil’s Santo Daime religion
Ayahuasca and shamanic tourism were already controversial in Brazil, and now face an uncertain future under Bolsonaro.
“Privatising the causes of stress dovetails nicely with neoliberal ideology”
Q&A with Ronald Purser, author of "McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality".
A woman’s scorn
In the age of Trump and #MeToo comes a timely challenge to the idea that female anger is irrational.
Iran showed me what we have lost
It’s easy to be sentimental as an outsider about traditional bazaar shopping. But at its heart is social connection.
Climate crisis: my part in its downfall
Laurie Taylor wonders if he has left his radical past behind.
What scientists learned from the art of illusion
From politics to advertising, the techniques used by magicians are everywhere; a new exhibition puts the rabbit back in the hat.
Six days in a 70s utopia
Was the Danish radical schooling project known as Tvind a liberating new frontier in education, or a cult?