What to put on top?
The Christmas tree is a product of many traditions - and long may it stay that way.
Mind, Body & Life
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?
The business of death in a growing world
As the population increases, so does the number of corpses – and the way we dispose of the dead may be about to change.
The truth about brainwashing
The term "brainwashing" is often used as a catch-all explanation when motivations are too difficult to understand.
Staying in is the new going out
Laurie Taylor embraces the joys of domestic quiescence.
Period pains: how the menstrual taboo is being challenged
Social taboos over menstruation cause undue shame to millions of women – but it is finally being understood as a human rights issue.