I spent last Christmas in Koh Samui, Thailand. Across the island, people greeted each other with “Gin khao reuyang?” meaning, “Have you eaten yet?” Being Christmas, my answer was easy to remember: “Kin laew” (an emphatic “Yes”). The greeting is wrapped in Thailand’s deep culture of hospitality, and the same sentiments can be found in Mandarin (“nǐ chī le ma”) and Korean (“bap meogeosseoyo”). They’re all ways of saying a beautiful hello, which communicates more than a simple greeting, but something of your values too. In this article, professor of philosophy Lloyd Strickland explains how English speakers can learn from greetings around the world to make their own hellos a little more meaningful.

Something called unconscious selective attention means your brain has learned to ignore your nose. Yet your snout can teach you a great deal about your health. From acne to rosacea and “wolf’s nose”, here a physiologist explains what your nose says about you. And elsewhere, experts in orbital mechanics explain how an ambitious space manoeuvre will soon be using Earth and the Moon to send the first European probe to orbit Jupiter.

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