Abraham Maslow's famous 1943 pyramid ended at self-actualisation, but in the final years of his life he added a sixth tier — self-transcendence — and argued the psychologically healthiest people are the ones who have stopped auditing themselves entirely.
Gemini 8 achieved the first docking in space in March 1966, then a stuck thruster spun the capsule up to a rotation a second. Armstrong shut down the main thrusters and used the re-entry system to save the crew, three years before Apollo 11.
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.
