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Formality: roughly, how formal and public a relationship is vs informal and private; Exchange: how much it involves trading ...

Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...

Something curious happens in two people’s brains during supportive interactions. It could help explain their emotional power ...

Far more than an evolutionary imperative, caregiving is a gateway to our deepest humanity, and may explain our intelligence ...

Social media is full of images of people plunging into freezing lakes and icy baths, with influencers touting the benefits of cold exposure in one form or another. You may have been wondering what ...

To resist dogma and accept uncertainty, think like a pragmatist Founded in 19th-century America, the philosophy of pragmatism promises imaginative ways of coping with our circumstances by Michael ...

Two puny words shoulder a substantial, if diffuse, philosophical outlook: as if. Epicurus was perhaps the first to put this unexceptional construction to good use. He felt that life was about ...