is professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, US. Her books include Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (2018) and Death by ...

is a researcher and teacher at the University of Queensland Business School in Australia. He delves into the world of self-help, business gurus, and get-rich-quick schemes, and how these influence our ...

A rope – does he answer like a joke: I seen enough rope for today? In his poem The Hangman at Home (1922), the US poet Carl Sandburg ponders the life of the titular hangman, asking a series of ...

is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York in the UK. His research interests are in environmental experience, emotion, and metacognition. The ...

In Navajo mythology, the Black God (or Haasch’eezhini) is the god of fire and creator of the constellations. In one Navajo origin story, the Black God is arranging the stars to be a reliable guide for ...

is Herbert S Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. His most recent book is The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World ...

Inner speech is mysterious and hard to study. But movie voiceovers and introspective novels offer fresh ways to understand it In a scene from the movie Adaptation (2002), Nicolas Cage, playing the ...

is an associate professor in psychology at Southern Cross University in Coffs Harbour, Australia where he leads the Physical Activity, Sport and Exercise Research (PASER) theme. He studies ...

Do you stick to a set schedule, or have a looser relationship to the clock? It can affect more than how you plan your day If Tamar Avnet asks her two sons to have lunch with her, the eldest might ...