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Teen girls have unique needs and experiences that are often left out of our built environment. Explore three projects across the world as they share how they are transforming public spaces for teen…

A party at the house of a friend, eleven o’clock, on a still-warm evening. A metre away from you, a group of people are chatting animatedly. Someone is telling an anecdote, it might be something about…

A major new report calls on humanity to tackle the biodiversity and climate crises simultaneously. Here's what that might look like.

«HUMANITY IS STRUGGLING to contain two compounding crises: skyrocketing global temperatures and plummeting biodiversity. But people tend to tackle each problem on its own»

Misguided assumptions about race are going mainstream, but hard facts can help you combat entrenched attitudes

The fastest way to get rich is to go slow. Many beliefs are held because there is a social and tribal benefit to holding them, not necessarily because they’re true. Nothing is more blinding than…

«We should be careful praising winners or criticizing failures, because they often made similar decisions with different degrees of luck.»

The world has a new largest country, and it's on the move.

More than 30 years ago, the "French paradox" got America bleary-eyed.

Why It Happened and Why It’s Bad For Democracy

Sensors capable of detecting and decoding brain activity are already embedded into everyday devices, said experts at a webinar.

A reflection on propaganda techniques; methods used to manipulate perception and opinion to further an agenda. But it's not that simple.

A new book explains how devaluing emotional labor—disproportionately done by women and other disadvantaged groups—perpetuates inequality.

The clock is ticking on the development of policy to meet this huge societal challenge, says Larry Elliott, the Guardian’s economics editor

One way to show status is by demonstrating how many resources you have. A bespoke suit, a huge graduation party, a fancy building… A bully who physically intimidates or an angry driver who cu…

Intelligence is not rationality

«Without the right personal qualities, education and IQ won’t make you master of your biases, they’ll only make you a better servant of them.»

Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis

OR, the toilet spoke and I understood the truth

«And third, there’s correspondence bias, the tendency to attribute other people’s actions to their personalities rather than to their situations.»

The first time I recognized that my body should be controlled was when I was eleven or twelve years old. Thanks to some particularly nasty asthma medication, my body was already well on the “after”…

From Loneliness to ChatGPT, Startup Valuations to Office Occupancy

The godfather of virtual reality has worked beside the web’s visionaries and power-brokers – but likes nothing more than to show the flaws of technology. He discusses how we can make AI work for us,…