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

Imagine two friends, Elena and Leo, are heading to a party. Leo asks Elena whether Sophie is already there. Elena answers: ‘Yes, she is at the party,’ because Sophie had told her earlier that she’d be ...

Last month, while clearing a drawer, I found a printout of André Breton’s ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’ (1924). The essay launched a movement that revolutionised art through beautiful, bizarre hybrids of ...

How much the sexes differ psychologically depends on how fair and wealthy a country is. But not in the way you’d think Surprisingly, researchers have sometimes found the opposite to be true: that ...

The US writer George Saunders, a winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award, is celebrated for both his masterful prose and his empathetic storytelling. In this short video, he ...

In 392 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I outlawed one of the oldest and most well-established mystery cults in the Greek-speaking world, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had taken place for more than ...

More people than ever are going solo. We identified a gender difference that hints at the ingredients needed to enjoy it ‘You’ll be single for the rest of your life’ is the sort of foreboding comment ...

If only I’d had the courage to say I loved him before he married someone else. I should have gone to law school like I had planned to. What possibilities might have opened up for me? I could’ve ...

We used an electric-shock dilemma to test the strength of people’s moral principles when faced with real-world complexities You enter a quiet laboratory room. Three people sit silently on chairs, ...

The great historian came of age at the end of British rule in India. Now 94, she continues to defy a regime determined to ...

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