Topic: Wellbeing

'You start listening to the silence. You start listening for imperfections, proofs against its existence.' Photo by Jason Larkin/Panos

Desert silence

City life is a constant, maddening hum. Only in a place like the Sahara can we hear the nothingness that revives

Robert Twigger 26 April 2013
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Stories in the night

Insomnia brings many gifts — the noises of the night, the twist of narrative, and a stolen march on time

Melanie McGrath 12 April 2013
A false-colour, scanning-electron microscope image of a breast cancer cell  Photo by Science Photo Library/Getty

An iCure?

Crowdfunding might catapult promising cancer treatments into clinical trials, but can it make a real difference?

Alexander Masters 27 March 2013
Ophelia by Odilon Redon c. 1900 - 1905. Collection of Dian Woodner, New York.  Photo from Wikimedia

A flowered planet

For all their intricate symbolic force, from the Paleolithic to today's herbalism, plants are still a deep mystery to us

Olivia Laing 19 March 2013
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Bend, don't break

When you’re living in Beirut and violence keeps spilling into your life, where do you go to find strength? Try yoga

Nathan Deuel 23 November 2012
A trader on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Aug 8, 2011.

After markets

Following decades at the heart of government thinking, there are signs that neoliberalism is giving way

William Davies 05 October 2012