Health & wellbeing

Why is everything—art, sex, nature—marketed to us as a tool for something else, instead of being valued for its own sake?

For decades, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films have opened with Leo the roaring lion, framed by the motto ars gratia artis: art for…

Towards the end of 2024, Dennis Biesma decided to try ChatGPT. The IT consultant from Amsterdam had just finished a…

Since a car accident in 2023, Keith, 39, from Kansas, has lived with near-constant pain in his mid-back and shoulders.…

Sugar tastes great for a reason: we evolved to enjoy it at a time when honey was a rare, energy-rich…

For some reason, we’ve all decided that the new year is the perfect time to reinvent ourselves. The trouble is,…

French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said, “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when…

Here’s a useful fact for any smug relatives who brag about going for a run the morning after their Christmas…

It’s probably fair to say that many people today don’t take food poisoning very seriously. Most of us wash our…

It’s Friday night in northern England. On the ninth floor of the old Granada Studios, a stylish crowd sips tequila…

My first time dancing at home was a happy accident. I had just finished a tense conversation with an ex,…