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The Vessel Editorial Team

The Vessel Editorial Team produces content on psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and the questions people return to about how to live well. We publish essays, reflections, and explorations drawn from psychological research, philosophical traditions, and contemplative practices. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, research, drafting, fact-checking, editing, and review, rather than a single individual's writing. The Vessel takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.
Pedestrian bridge built from a reused wind-turbine blade in Szprotawa — thematic image for blade-as-shelter reuse. Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Green Horizons

In Denmark, a retired wind-turbine blade was cut and rebuilt as a bike shelter, turning one of the hardest-to-recycle parts of a wind farm into a roof people lock bikes under every day
A person's hand resting on a knee, holding a lit cigarette in a slim holder, brick paving below
  • Inner Life

Smokers who felt that quitting would make them a different person were further from thinking of themselves as ex-smokers, and in a year-long study that distance is what tracked who actually stopped
3D rendering of neurons in the male fruit fly central nervous system connectome
  • Inner Life

HHMI Janelia and Google mapped more than 166,000 neurons and about 11,700 cell types in a male fruit fly’s brain, producing the first complete wiring diagram of a male fly central nervous system
Medieval parchment manuscript written in iron gall ink — thematic image for sheeppox genomes recovered from parchment
  • Ancient Wisdom

Scientists recovered 21 ancient sheeppox genomes from parchment manuscripts spanning about 1700 BCE to early modern times, showing the livestock virus has threatened herds for at least 3,500 years
Two young men sit side by side on rocks by the sea in evening light, both facing the water.
  • Inner Life

In one university course, almost every friendship people named was expected to be named back. About half of the ties in that network ran both ways
A woman in profile speaks on a mobile phone on a city street, her expression serious.
  • Inner Life

How you feel and how you rate your life are two different measurements, and they often come apart after a death, a birth or a lost job
Three adults sitting at an outdoor table mid-conversation, the woman in the middle leaning on her hand as she listens.
  • Inner Life

Fewer than 2 percent of conversations in a lab ended at the moment both people were ready to stop, and neither had much idea when the other wanted to go
An open lined notebook with a ballpoint pen lying across it on a dark wooden table
  • Inner Life, Relationships

Couples kept a nightly diary through a bar exam, and the days the one taking it noticed being comforted tended to be followed by more anxiety, not less
Five people stand together in silhouette on a dune ridge, the low sun setting behind them.
  • Inner Life

Students were cut out of an online ball game by players flying the flag of a party they said disgusted them, and it stung about as much as when their own side did it
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