‘I’d be a wreck without it’: the floating daycare centre where Parisians paint, dance and heal

Director Nicolas Philibert had an unexpected triumph with On the Adamant, his film about a haven for people with mental health problems, named after the British pop star. We go aboard

‘I was extremely furious’: the dangerously high cost of insulin in America

Many diabetic Americans must pay thousands for insulin, an often lethal impossibility explored in documentary Pay or Die

‘Demand interestingness’: Thomas Heatherwick rails against boring buildings

Designer says soulless structures make people stressed and lonely as he launches book and campaign

How Roger Deakin’s love of water inspired me

The great nature writer and outdoor swimmer has been a huge inspiration to many with his focus on ponds, lakes and rivers

From bedtime with Harry Styles to watching stars snooze: the meteoric rise of sleep celebs

You can drift off to ‘sleep stories’ from Styles, Maya Jama and Alan Titchmarsh. Big name Youtubers host sleepalongs – or stream naps for laughs. Why are we getting under the covers with celebs?

‘Calves are the biceps of the legs!’: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s seven big life lessons

Find opportunity in failure – and don’t let your legs get in the way of world domination. Here is the distilled wisdom of Arnie’s first foray into self-help

‘There’s bombshell after bombshell’: will Blue Therapy be the wildest reality TV ride of the year?

After three million people tuned in for the online version of this therapy show for Black couples, Channel 4 have turned it into an explosive series. Brace for controversy

How I learned to tell my own story as a South Asian woman

As a child, I wanted to belong, but didn’t see brown girls like me in culture. I’d like space for our stories to be told, too

Running marathons helped me write my novel

The sport helped with my tenacity, and my creativity too

The big idea: are memories fact or fiction?

Truth and illusion are woven together as we tell ourselves into being