All of this is only mine through you.’ Time and identity collapse in a trans poet’s evocative message to her former self ...

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What contagious crying, comforting hugs and other cute behaviour in infants tells us about the roots of emotional connection ...

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In the Austrian Alps, a mother dedicates her heart and crisper drawer to a pet tortoise, lovingly captured by her son ...

For the men and boys of the Dom community in Varanasi, sacred cremations demand a lifetime of exhausting, dangerous labour ...

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Radhika Iyengar is an award-winning journalist whose work has been published in Al Jazeera, Atlas Obscura and Esquire (India), among others. She is the author of Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the ...

Chimpanzees favour the colour red. Junglefowl prefer symmetry. Our shared capacity for aesthetic pleasure is cause for wonder ...

What studying people without a ‘mind’s eye’ reveals about the role of imagery in the experience of emotion and memory ...

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