Michael Bond

Science writer

Michael Bond is a science writer specialising in psychology and social behaviour. He is the author of Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way (2020).

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Written by Michael Bond

Four people in traditional Greenlandic warm clothing walking on ice towards a massive iceberg, with snowy mountains in the background and cloudy skies.

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Anthropology

We are wayfinders

Navigation and spatial awareness sustained humans for tens of thousands of years. Have we lost the trail in modern times?

Michael Bond

Dust-covered people walking through debris-strewn street in a city. Emergency vehicles are visible in the background.

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Cities

The intimacy of crowds

Crowds aren’t really crazed – they are made of highly co-operative individuals driven to shared interests and goals

Michael Bond