Science and math skills are widely celebrated as keys to economic and technological progress, but abstract mathematics may seem bafflingly far from industrial optimization or medical imaging. Pure ...

Research on creativity points out that most thinking follows a path of least resistance in which a situation reminds people of experiences related to that situation, and they determine what to do ...

Human beings don’t like contradictions. This feature of ours has a name: cognitive dissonance. When we realise we hold two conflicting beliefs, or that there’s a clash between our values and our ...

What is personality? It's a collective set of an individual's thoughts, actions and emotions based on a wide range of experiences and perspectives they've absorbed, processed and expressed. On an ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, by David Harvey, Profile Books, RRP£14.99, 336 pages Utopia or ...