relationships

Tied

Arts, Culture & Media

Two artists bind themselves together for a whole year, then spend the next twenty getting over it.

Mike & Adi

Arts, Culture & Media

Mike & Adi

Arts, Culture & Media

Tied

Arts, Culture & Media
A group of phones

Can you swipe your way to new friends?

Technology
Man kneels in front of make-shift memorial with head in hands

For ‘lone wolf’ terrorists, the motivation for violence isn’t always hate

Culture

A social psychologist studied terrorism case histories and reached a surprising conclusion. Some lone wolf terrorists are motivated not by hate, but by love.

texting in the rain

Maintaining real relationships in the digital world

Technology

Social media has become a fundamental part of this writer’s life. So what does healthy use of these sites look like?

The homepage of the Ashley Madison website is displayed on an iPad, in this photo illustration taken in Ottawa, Canada July 21, 2015.

Canadian infidelity is alive and thriving in the hotbed of cheating, Ottawa

Culture

Ottawa is the capital of Canada. It could also be the capital of the illicit affair.

Love t-shirt

How traditional couples changed the definition of marriage and opened the doors for same-sex weddings

Culture

There were many places in Europe, in southern France for example, that the only place you could find true love was in adultery, because marriage was such a mercenary institution. But then that all changed — and planted the seeds for same-sex marriage to eventually blossom.

Hongbao packet

China’s traditional New Year’s gift of cash for children now has a digital option

Lifestyle & Belief

When families get together for Chinese New Year, one of the cherished traditions is giving and exchanging hongbao, red envelopes with cash. Rebecca Kanthor recently visited her husband’s family in China’s Henan province and learned the intricacies of these obligatory gifts.