Would you think it weird if I refused to travel on Sundays that fall on the 22nd day of the month? How about if I lobbied...
Halloween is a time to embrace all that is disgusting, from bloody slasher films to haunted houses full of fake guts and gore. But the attraction...
During the autumn of 1660, colonists in and around Québec started to report some very strange occurrences. In the sky they saw a man enveloped in...
A long day in the office can leave you empty of energy and overcome with desire for TV and a takeaway. But you’ve been sitting down...
Relationships play a key role in people’s happiness. There are scholars who study how people maintain good quality relationships and the challenges they face. Some challenges...
As someone who is severely deaf and completely blind, I felt overnight I had lost a third sense, my sense of touch. To make matters worse,...
Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that when faced with writer’s block, sometimes it seems that the muse has...
Every year around the middle of October, reporters start contacting me wanting to talk about rumors of contaminated Halloween treats. That’s because I track media coverage...
Throughout history, body piercing has been a symbol of beauty, sexuality, ritual initiation and rites of passage. Mayan royalty had their tongues and genitals pierced; during...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its first time-use survey in 15 years. The last time it collected such data, in 2006, Apple was yet...