Forest bathing arrives in most Western coverage wrapped in the language of ancient wisdom, as though people in Japan had been walking slowly through cedar groves for a thousand years under that name.
In the spring of 1902, an archaeologist at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens noticed that a corroded lump of bronze, pulled the previous year from a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, had a gear wheel set into it.
The claim is familiar enough to have its own television franchise: the pyramids of Giza were too large, too precise, and too old to have been built by human hands, so someone from elsewhere must have helped.
We are writers and editors reading the research, not clinicians, paediatricians, or child psychologists.
He Yanxin died in October 2025, aged 86, in Jiangyong County in China's Hunan province.
Hygge has become one of those foreign words English-speakers reach for when their own language feels thin.
For half a century, a single insult has trailed Bangladesh through the development literature: the country once written off as a basket case.
On Sunday, 19 July, Spain will play Argentina in the FIFA World Cup final at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the first men's World Cup final…
Nearly half of adults over 60 report loneliness — but the standard prescription of joining a club rarely helps, because subjective loneliness and objective isolation are two different problems with two different cures.
The psychologist Sidney Jourard called it the disclosure paradox — people exceptional at listening and validating others often walk home feeling completely unknown, because being liked and being known are not the same experience.
Almost everyone can name their learning style. Ask a room of people whether they learn best by seeing, hearing, or doing, and most will answer without hesitation.
We are writers reading the psychology literature, not clinicians or behavioural scientists.
"Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest", Marcus Aurelius wrote to himself in the second book of his Meditations.
In 2002, a team led by Becca Levy at the Yale School of Public Health reported a result that has been quoted in wellness writing ever since.
A young bull elephant in southern Africa has spent the past two years walking. Fitted with a GPS collar north of Sioma Ngwezi National Park in Zambia in June 2023, the animal, known to researchers as Z16, has since covered close to 12,000 kilometres on foot.
In late April 2019, Victor Vescovo took a two-person titanium submersible called the DSV Limiting Factor alone to the floor of the Challenger Deep, the lowest point in the Mariana Trench, and stayed there for about four hours.
