Being able to relax, spend time with loved ones, have freedom from a boss, and do whatever the hell we want are essential parts of what it means to be human. Workers need more time off.

Terry Power’s face tightened as he listened to his wife’s attorney tick off their assets on the final day of his divorce trial. He sat in a leather chair at a glass-covered table inside a paneled judicial chamber and he thought not for the first time that her voice annoyed him.

The pandemic changed everything… but most of all, it made us question the way we live

Underground peat fires refuse to die, even when flooded with water. So scientists developed a new weapon to put them down for good.

What I learned about love, loss, and landscape over two decades of living in a 1961 Artcraft mobile home in the Utah desert

Reading Time: 6 minutes You have made the dedication to start a business or you are going to be more outgoing. Then again you may have just gone through a divorce. And you are trying to decide what you are going to do next. You are then hit with your first big obstacle. Why isn’t this as easy as people make it seem? Are you just not good at this? Why do some people make what you are trying to do look so easy, while other people struggle? Isn’t starting a new business supposed to be easy? First, you have to understand that nothing …

The ethical life means being good to ourselves, to others, and to the world. But how do you choose if these demands compete?

It is an emotion linked to improved health and well-being, but is our obsession with being happy a recipe for disappointment, asks Nat Rutherford.

The "Good Enough" principle. A powerful guide to balancing your need to achieve the very BEST, while finding contentment in life

The dance of love and lore between grandparent and grandchild is at the centre, not the fringes, of our evolutionary story

We face a growing array of problems that involve technology directly or indirectly. To name just a few: nuclear weapons, climate change induced by fossil fuels, the possibility that AI will get out of control, the effect of automation on employment, using bots and targeted fake news to influence elections, deepfake software, data and privacy concerns in general and, in particular, the capacity of facial-recognition software to create a surveillance state (like China).

Starting over at 50 is not something most of us plan for. However, a job loss, bankruptcy, or divorce doesn't mean we can't bounce back. Use this guide to get back on track!

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Memorial Day, May 25, Mahmoud “Mike” Abumayyaleh got a panicked phone call from a teenage employee at the store he owns with his three brothers. “Mike! Mike! They’re killing him,” she said. “My heart dropped. Like, it fell to the ground,” Mahmoud told me. He had no clue what she was talking about. At first, he assumed a customer was accosting a worker.

As much as courage is not the absence of fear, I believe courage means having the freedom to make decisions without fear holding you back.

Many residents of Martin county, Kentucky, won’t drink their tap water, a legacy of years of mismanagement

How reconnecting with family, friends, and colleagues lifts the human spirit.

Deciding to forgive is a big step. After all, you're the one who's been harmed! But it turns out that forgiving someone actually has benefits for your mental health. The practice of radical forgiveness can help you process hurt and anger — and ultimately find peace.

Hand-washing aside, James Hamblin has not used soap for five years. He warns that our obsession with being clean is harming the microbiome that keeps us healthy

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was one of the most prominent Russian novelists of all time. His novels are often surrounded by a gloomy, violent aura and deep, complex characters. Dostoevsky never fails to make the reader ponder and introduce philosophical themes in a subtle, but convincing way. His novel “Notes from the underground” is one of the most distinguished existential fictions in the world.

Is middle age really the “golden age” when people are the most optimistic in life? Researchers from Michigan State University led the largest study of its kind to determine how optimistic people are in life and when as well as how major life events affect how optimistic they are about the future. “We found that optimism continued to increase throughout young adulthood, seemed to steadily plateau and then decline into older adulthood,” said William Chopik, MSU assistant professor of psychology at MSU and lead author.