The normal observation when gazing up at the big night sky is something like this: ‘Aren’t the stars fantastic tonight!’ But, as with most normal observations, we’re missing the point…. read more »

The Garden of Sadness is not a place anyone wants to go. We’d always prefer to be happy than sad, and so we try and avoid it. We choose another… read more »

Today, many of us communicate by text and email. It’s very handy to ping messages across the globe at the touch of a button. We even ping them to colleagues… read more »

Teenagers don’t tend to get a good press – whether its sulks, moodiness, excessive risk-taking, bad decision-making or sleeping late. ‘What’s happened to my sweet child?!’ parents ask. But Professor… read more »

You’ll never walk alone is a powerful song to hear sung by Liverpool supporters at Anfield. There’s a great sense of solidarity to it. It must be the best club… read more »

Twelve men will kill themselves today, as twelve do every day, in England and Wales. It is a terrible sentence to write. And words cannot describe the confusion, anger, grief… read more »

Concentration was always celebrated at school…and encouraged. ‘Concentrate, Parke!’ And concentration, or focus, is good for getting things done. As Alexandra Horowitz writes: ‘It eases our cognitive overload by allowing… read more »

Some people drive a car with no idea how it works. This is OK while the car is performing, but when it breaks down, there’s a problem, which may leave… read more »

Amber Rudd recently resigned as Home Secretary. She feels she ‘inadvertently misled’ Parliament over immigrant deportation targets. There had been huge pressure on her in the preceding week. Many feel… read more »

Supporting a football team can damage your health. This is the finding of a recent study, which has discovered that people suffer from losing a game for a lot longer… read more »