Here are 5 tips to help support non-binary people in your workplace, based on my own experience.

They made him a present that couldn't be missed. By Lily Feinn.

Militia leader Ammon Bundy, famous for leading an armed standoff in Oregon, had a tender moment in November of last year. He recorded a Facebook post saying that perhaps President Trump's characterization of the migrant caravan on the U.S.-Mexico border was somewhat broad. Maybe they weren't all criminals, he said. "What about those who have come here for reasons of need?"

Human societies are so prosperous mostly because of how altruistic we are. Unlike other animals, people cooperate even with complete strangers. We share knowledge on Wikipedia, we show up to vote, and we work together to responsibly manage natural resources. But where do these cooperative skills come from and why don’t our selfish instincts overwhelm them? Using a branch of mathematics called evolutionary game theory to explore this feature of human societies...

Experimental psychology is providing concrete answers to some of the great philosophical debates about art and its meaning. By Ellen Winner.

A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect. By Joe Sexton.

In this article I interview clinical Psychologist Dr. George Simon the internationally-recognized expert on manipulation and character disturbance, and the bestselling author of In Sheep’s Clothing, Character Disturbance, and The Judas Syndrome

"I’ve had experience, I know the world. Amuse yourself, ask every passenger to tell you his story, and if you find one, just one, who hasn’t often cursed his life, who hasn’t often told himself he’s the unluckiest of men, throw me headfirst into the sea.’’ – Voltaire.

How cuisine bridges cultures. By Matthew Sedacca.

Can a cardboard box generate empathy between two strangers? Can it help them to fall in love? By Deenah Vollmer. (May 2014)

I keep having the same conversation over and over. That thing where someone undermines your perception of reality, and says you’re crazy, or denies that something is happening that is in fact happening? By Nora Samaran. (June 28, 2016)

A new website helps you translate human words and emotions into a form of elephant communication. By Casey Smith. (Aug. 11, 2017)

What’s it like to be an octopus? By Amia Srinivasan.

A quiet bombshell of a biography that reclaims a revolutionary Thoreau for the 21st century. By Daegan Miller.

Too often the humankind puts itself at the center of any reflection on the meaning of life, but the truth is our planet—not to speak about the entire universe—has existed since long before we came on to the scene, and will probably outlive us. The beauty of Beloved Curve, a recent conceptual photography series by 31 year-old Scottish photographer Sarah Amy Fishlock, is the simplicity with which it connects the existential theme of the incessant cycle of life to her grieving process for her father's death through the intelligent use of double exposures.

What frustrates me is, as providers, we’ve lost our humanness and we cease to live when we forget about the human. In my practice, I give every patient my personal mobile number. I get a call in the middle of the night from Sarah. I could hear her husband snoring in the background. I asked, “Are you okay?” “Well, yes and no,” she said. “You know, it’s those wee hours of the morning where we feel very alone and the uncertainty and the ambiguity of life creeps up on us.” And she said, “I just – I just wanted someone with me in this space.” I said, “Okay.”

Can an app that lets strangers — and bots — become amateur therapists create a safer internet? By Ben Popper.

The children were going to die. Mohamed Bzeek knew that. But in his more than two decades as a foster father, he took them in anyway — the sickest of the sick in Los Angeles County’s sprawling foster care system. He has buried about 10 children. Some died in his arms. Now, Bzeek spends long days and sleepless nights caring for a bedridden 6-year-old foster girl with a rare brain defect. She’s blind and deaf. She has daily seizures. Her arms and legs are paralyzed.

On niceness in publishing and why we should ask men to do better. By Alana Massey.

The same part of the brain that allows us to step into the shoes of others also helps us restrain ourselves. By Ed Yong.