A crew of six volunteer scientists spent an entire...  ...experiment is about how humans would react under isolation from the outside world, and how they got along wi...

Depriving people of human contact, or of sensory s...  ...r bodies alike.We’ve known for a while that isolation is physically bad for us. Chronically lonely peop...  ...till unclear, though what is known is that social isolation unleashes an extreme immune response – a ca...  ...ects of loneliness ar...

Remember the Lykov family, who lived isolated in Siberia's taiga forest for 40 years until they were found in the 1970s? The only family member left today is Agafia Lykov, who still lives in a cabin in the same wildernes...

Talk about living off the grid! In 1936, Karp Lyko...  ...ned how the Lykov family survived all those years. Isolation made survival in the wilderness close to impossib...

At one point or another, we've all fantasized about living on our own isolated island, but while there are plenty uninhabited islands around, you have to wonder why no one has moved in yet. Mental Floss has the scoop on...

There is no texting on my family phone service. Not only do I want to avoid paying for it, I also want to encourage my children to talk with people, instead of talking at them, as so many of their friends prefer to do. T...