Tag: People

I’m a “fitness”* person. I like to work out, I do it often, and I want to talk about it. Fitness people are annoying. They can be smug, self-righteous, bottomless fonts of unsolicited advice. They enjoy doing what many people dislike and want them to do it, too. I know they...

You see, in Canada, I hardly thought about my looks. I had my family and friends. I was healthy, going outside to play a lot, and I was happy. But I started becoming more aware of my looks when I visited Taiwan after living abroad for so long. Because here’s the thing… Taiwanes...

Who are smart people? Smart people are intelligent people, they are quite clever and they have an answer to almost every question and what are smartphones? Smartphones are electronic devices that have made our lives a lot easier. Smartphone with internet facility is like heaven on ear...

I was grateful to have my own work acknowledged (I was #96), but before even opening the article, our team was concerned by the fact that there were some serious names and faces missing. While all of the people in the cover art may have had significant influence on the development of psychedelics, t...

On the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Robin Williams, I am reposting an article I’d previously written about Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and could probably have updated when Carrie Fisher died. That said, this is not about celebrities dying. It about what we can learn about addiction...

Ever caught yourself silently critiquing someone’s outfit, their life choices, or even their grocery list? We’ve all been there. Judging seems to be a fundamental part of the human experience, as natural as breathing or blinking. But why do we do it? Are we simply born with ...

When I was at university, writing essays was a special kind of struggle. I would eventually manage to complete them, and sometimes did quite well. But I always suspected that I laboured over them more than was necessary, or at least more than others did. I thought it was just my anxiety compellin...

A pervasive stereotype is the idea that black people are always late. I am not interested in whether or not this is true — I am interested in why this idea arose and why it remains dominant. Animals do not lay awake at night worrying about deadlines. What we call ‘time’ is a hum...