An animator makes sense of the trauma he experienced when he was sent to boarding school, and how an imaginary friend helped ...

Seizures are often described as both terrifying and enthralling. Mine gave me a wondrous new take on consciousness and agency ...

Love is not merely irrational – there’s a sense in which it’s also based on reason, which means we can get better at it ...

Susanne K Langer understood the indispensable power of metaphors, which allow us to say new things with old words ...

Reflecting on the potential for extraterrestrial life can inspire awe and have a profound effect on your worldview ...

Dig around in that noggin’ and save everything that’s worth saving’ – Case channels his MS diagnosis into a work of art ...

In a grim irony, his descendants – my grandmother and mother – struggled with drink. Here’s what I’d tell him about addiction ...