Human Behaviour
Human
The universal psychology lane. Stories about how people relate to one another, themselves, and the world — written for readers who are curious about why we behave the way we do. Sister section to Space Psychology.
Human Behaviour
Researchers who follow people into retirement keep finding the same curve: the first year feels like freedom, and somewhere around year two the loneliness arrives, once work invitations quietly thin out
Human Behaviour
Japan has a word for the kind of person who spends a lifetime perfecting one craft — shokunin — whether making sushi, knives, ramen, or pottery, and the culture treats that devotion not as obsession, but as a genuine respect for the work itself
Human Behaviour
The word 'meme' appeared in print for the first time in Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene, describing how ideas compete for survival the same way genes do — a metaphor so precise the internet proved it true 30 years later
Human Behaviour
We tend to think boy bands are made for teenage girls and forgotten just as fast — but BTS built a fan base far more mature and diverse than the stereotype, with many adult listeners describing the music as genuinely therapeutic
Human Behaviour
Brené Brown spent years studying vulnerability and found the barrier to being known is not the willingness to give — kind people give constantly — but the far harder act of letting someone see the parts you smooth over
Human Behaviour
In her research on shame and connection, Brené Brown reached a conclusion that reframes loneliness entirely: you cannot be fully known by people who are only ever looking for what they can take from you
Human Behaviour
Vitamin B12 is synthesised only by bacteria and archaea — and the human liver stores roughly a three-year supply before deficiency shows in the blood
Human Behaviour
The human body synthesises roughly 1 gram of creatine a day in the liver and kidneys — and stores about 95% of it inside skeletal muscle
Human Behaviour
Spaceflight pushes fluid toward the head, flattening the back of the eye and blurring some astronauts' vision in ways that don't always fully recover
Human Behaviour
Nearly every atom in your body is swapped out over the years, so in a real sense you aren't made of the same material you were a decade ago — yet you feel like the same person
Human Behaviour
In 2012, researchers mapping census data across England found that communities closer to the coast reported slightly better general health, with the strongest pattern appearing in more deprived areas. Later studies found similarly modest associations with mental health, including better scores among some urban adults living within one kilometre of the sea.
Human Behaviour
Japan created a national ministerial post for loneliness in 2021, becoming only the second country after Britain to appoint such a minister, after data linked prolonged social isolation to a measurable rise in suicides during the pandemic.
Human Behaviour
An ant carrying a crumb across your kitchen floor can lift and haul around 50 times its own body weight — the human equivalent of a person carrying a small car up a flight of stairs without slowing down
Psychology
Quote by Sigmund Freud: “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Psychology