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?
Mind, Body & Life
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.
Desperately seeking cultural capital
Laurie Taylor goes to the opera.
Becoming British
As a teenager, I fought hard to feel like I belonged. Now, that right is being undermined – for me and millions of others.
Close encounters of the everyday kind
A new book asks if microdosing LSD could make you happier and more productive. Why might we need such a helping hand?
Keep on taking the tablets
Laurie Taylor goes in search of transcendence and finds some fascinating shoelaces.
“Shyness is very difficult to define precisely because it’s so contradictory”
Q&A with Joe Moran, author of "Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to Shyness".