Shaniya Naz

King Alexander of Greece went for a walk with his dog on October 2, 1920. Twenty-three days later, he was dead.  The chain of events involved two monkeys,…

Surprising facts are much better when your first reaction is not “interesting.” It should be: “There is absolutely no way that is true.” So this is not another list…

Brutal honesty has a very good publicist. Most of us have met someone who proudly says, “I just tell people the truth.” They say it as if honesty…

Bad at texting is one of the most useful descriptions we have invented for other people. It explains almost anything. Three days without a reply? “He's just bad…

Do opposites attract, or have we just been repeating that because it makes relationships sound more interesting? You know the couple. One talks to everybody at the…

Do animals get bored? It sounds like one of those questions that should have an obvious answer. Anyone who has lived with a dog has seen the stare.…

An out of body experience is easy to describe and almost impossible to test. Someone feels as if they have left their body. They may say they floated above…

Do dogs have self-control? Put a piece of food in front of one and the question suddenly becomes much more interesting. Now tell it not to touch it.…

It is "how are you doing?" And doing means money. Status. Output. Whether the numbers are moving in the right direction. Men mental health conversations rarely start…

You finish the day behind. You eat dinner while checking one last thing. You tell yourself you will rest this weekend, and then the weekend arrives and…

Not the furniture. Not the smell. Something quieter. You felt it before you named it. That was color psychology doing its job. And it has been doing…

There is a version of arriving somewhere that is not really arriving. I know this because evening walks in Victoria Park have a way of correcting you…

There is a version of London that only appears after 8pm. Not the tourist version. Not the rush-hour version. The quieter, stranger, more honest version that surfaces…

You scrolled past something this week that made you feel a small, quiet satisfaction. A person you find arrogant got publicly corrected. A company you dislike announced…

Does Cannabis affect memory? You remember it clearly. The conversation. The thing that was said. The version of events that has quietly become the official version inside…

What does hysterical mean? History of the word traces back further than most people expect. Not to the 1950s housewife quietly losing her mind in a suburb.…

Why asking someone out lowers your chances is what we try to answer in this article, scientifically. The psychology suggests it is also, in many situations, the…

Here are your 5 pieces of good news from this week. Not the kind that pretend the world is fine. The kind that happened at the same…