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Self-control, grit, growth mindset – trendy skills won’t transform children’s lives, but more meaningful interventions can ...

Research on how we perceive the rate of change shows how you can be strategic about goal tracking and boost your motivation ...

Friendship is a force that runs deep through the human soul. It fosters trust, emotional balance and mutual support. It binds individuals and shapes communities, both in ordinary times and in moments ...

Remarkable and inspiring stories from individuals who have overcome challenges and created distinctive lives for themselves.

Sixteen years ago, in the far north of Norway, just past a bus stop in the town of Alta and down a series of ramps to the edge of a fjord, I found one of the world’s finest displays of rock art. I’d ...

A lot of people think they know how to sharpen pencils, but… they don’t.’ A guide to doing it right, by an artisanal pro ...

Martin Wiener is associate professor in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University in Virginia, US. He is an expert in time perception and temporal processing. His work has been featured ...

Heather Swan writes nonfiction and poetry. She is the recipient of the Sigurd F Olson Nature Writing Award for nonfiction and the August Derleth Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in such journals as ...

Some years ago, I came upon a white wolf. Or rather, she came upon me, as I was dozing on a riverbank on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic. Allow me to set the scene. Ellesmere – or ...

Frances Nguyen is a freelance writer and journalist covering politics, culture and society through the prism of race and identity.