Awkwardness is ultimately a form of anxiety – often an uncomfortable, self-conscious feeling that the social order has been punctured in some small way. Yet there can be something quite funny about ...

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The thought experiment known as Newcomb’s paradox pits participants against a supercomputer with near-perfect predictive ...

The sense that a dead person is still with us is both eerie and common: can we find a naturalistic explanation for it?

Rediscovering an André Breton essay about the value of embracing randomness, I realised this has been my life philosophy ...

Alizeh Kohari is a writer, editor and reporter who divides her time between Pakistan and the United States. She most recently worked at Global Press, training reporters across the world, from Mexico ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

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Anxiety isn’t normally considered a good thing. It’s an unpleasant feeling associated with inner turmoil, sleepless nights and chewed fingernails. Take it far enough, and a psychiatrist will diagnose ...

I recall the day my mother realised that my Spanish was sounding ‘broken’. I was 12. She already knew that my English wasn’t up to par – I was useless as a family translator. But hearing me struggle ...

In Metamorphoses, the ancient Roman poet Ovid describes the Thespian hunter Narcissus, whose own beautiful reflection in a pool captivated him in place until he died. This warning against vanity and ...

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