This Month
- Opinion
- Mental health
Is it time to stop talking about mental illness?
I believe many young people are being encouraged to frame normal experiences as psychiatric conditions. There are even financial motivations.
- Peter Quarry
What an even closer peek inside the brains of ‘super-agers’ reveals
Scientists have become enthralled by a subset of the population aged 80 and older who with the memory of a person 20 to 30 years younger.
- Dana G. Smith
Six podcasts that will help you cope with stress
At a time of unsettling news at home and abroad, these shows offer tips and first-person accounts to alleviate a spiralling sense of unease.
- Emma Dibdin
Adults become lonelier from age 50, say scientists
An analysis of nine long-term studies of nearly 130,000 people from Western countries found a striking “U-shaped” pattern of loneliness throughout life.
- Sarah Knapton
April
How exercise strengthens your brain
Perhaps most remarkably, exercise offers protection against neurodegenerative diseases.
- Updated
- Dana G. Smith
How not to be bored when you have to wait
A writer went on a quest to wait less. Then he discovered how to care less about waiting.
- Arthur C. Brooks
Over 50 and lonely? Here are six ways to fix that
Loneliness isn’t always apparent from the outside. It’s an invisible cloak that eats away at your wellbeing without anyone knowing. That can make it deadly.
- Annabel Jones
Why you think you’re more beautiful than you are after 50
Age goggles are one of nature’s kinder tricks, providing you accept that what you see in the mirror is not necessarily what others are experiencing.
- Shane Watson
Six surprising things that increase your heart health risk
Beyond the obvious red flags, there are other habits and characteristics that can dramatically raise the likelihood that you suffer a coronary attack or stroke.
- Emily Craig
Want to finish more books? Five super readers share their tips
Some read up to 365 tomes a year, but others say it’s not all about quantity over quality.
- Sophia Nguyen
March
Author Daniel Kahneman, who exposed investors’ irrationality, dies
The psychologist’s work casting doubt on the logic of decision-making helped spawn the field of behavioral economics and won him a Nobel Prize.
- Stephen Miller
- Opinion
- Review
Is your colleague a sociopath?
Also known as “dark triad” personalities, these manipulative narcissists are indifferent to people’s feelings.
- Arthur C Brooks
February
- Opinion
- Gender
As kids, they thought they were trans. They no longer do
Detransitioners have few places to turn and often find themselves vilified by trans activists.
- Pamela Paul
From Barbie to Baby Yoda: why we’re trapped in the cult of cute
Anything that reminds us of a baby triggers intense emotions and a willingness to spend money.
- Stuart Jeffries
January
- Opinion
- Money psychology
Three ways to use money to buy happiness
The good news is you don’t have to do anything drastic – or expensive – to give your happiness a boost.
- Kate Campbell
- Opinion
- Productivity
Stop procrastinating – it won’t get any easier
I discovered that by changing the story I tell myself, I’m getting a lot more done.
- Fiona Guthrie
December 2023
The $371 financial summit where a bestselling author rubs you rich
As Paul McKenna instructs us to run our hands lovingly from our shoulders to our elbows, some audience members have their doubts.
- Tom Haynes
Has working from home made people passive-aggressive?
The strategy is fast becoming commonplace in cases where more direct expressions of frustration and resentment would be considered unprofessional.
- Josh Cohen
November 2023
Political correctness is too much for the ‘exhausted majority’
You should concentrate on how you say things rather than walking on eggshells for fear of offending someone by what you say.
- Peter Quarry
October 2023
Gut bacteria, psychedelics and the future of mental health treatments
This accessible book looks at how our brains work and evaluates hyped treatments for our most common psychological problems.
- Tanveer Ahmed