From Barry Lyndon to The Favourite, these stunning period films transform history into obsession, desire, power, and ruin.

Nothing about long Covid adds up. All of this is very strange. Stranger still are patients’ stories of astonishing recoveries from severe long Covid, achieved entirely outside mainstream medicine. The ...

Since the end of the Cold War, European and US liberals have claimed to defend a “rules-based international order.” Often a fiction, even the pretense has now vanished under the rubble of Gaza.

was a very different period in film history, and there were a lot of weird ideas floating about that got made into hit films.

Traumatic memories can bias our attention and shape our current behavior. While we try to avoid triggers, we may also be ...

New research explores music's impact on learning, memory, and emotions in two studies. One reveals that familiar music can enhance concentration and learning, while the other demonstrates that music ...

Steamy movie classics like Bound and The Last Seduction prove desire becomes most dangerous when mixed with power and shame.

Supporters of Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s deposed shah, have marched through a number of European cities in recent weeks wearing military-style uniforms, carrying flags associated with Savak, the ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

You may have heard the term "shadow self" before. The idea of a shadow self has long roots in our history. As a child, I found some fascination with a fictional work by Robert Louis Stevenson entitled ...