Don’t take this the wrong way …
Laurie Taylor's trip to the doctor doesn't quite go as planned.
Mind, Body & Life
How the fear of death gave birth to religion
Death is an inescapable and intrinsic part of human existence and, in the end, there’s absolutely nothing to be scared of.
Swiped away
In the era of commercial dating apps, is the easy availability of sex dehumanising the experience?
The end of work as we know it?
The idea of what employment really means has undergone radical changes. Now, some thinkers are questioning whether it should exist at all.
What to put on top?
The Christmas tree is a product of many traditions - and long may it stay that way.
If women ruled the world
The Mosuo, a culturally isolated community in south-western China, are as close as we can get to a matriarchal society.
Fighting for abortion rights in Northern Ireland
50 years after the 1967 Abortion Act was passed, women in Northern Ireland still has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe.
Why does psychoanalysis use the couch?
Q&A with Nathan Kravis, author of "On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud"
The weighting game
Laurie Taylor takes a trip to the gym.
The art of the diary
People have kept diaries for centuries – and now they’re being reinvented for the era of social media. What purpose do they serve?