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How an Anti-Inflammatory Diet Can Help Tame an Autoimmune Condition
An estimated 23.5 million Americans, including my husband, suffer from an autoimmune condition — and their numbers are growing, though researchers don’t know why. You’ve likely heard of the most common autoimmune diseases — including type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple...
The Power of Next
Whenever I am faced with life’s uncertainty, I ask myself the following questions: Why is this happening? What can I do to make it go away? How can I navigate this effectively? What can I learn from this experience? Being...
Humans Could Live up to 150 Years, New Research Suggests
The chorus of the theme song for the movie Fame, performed by actress Irene Cara, includes the line “I’m gonna live forever.” Cara was, of course, singing about the posthumous longevity that fame can confer. But a literal expression of...
Selfishness Is Learned
Many people cheat on taxes — no mystery there. But many people don’t, even if they wouldn’t be caught — now, that’s weird. Or is it? Psychologists are deeply perplexed by human moral behavior, because it often doesn’t seem to make...
Voice Is the Next Big Platform, Unless You Have an Accent
My mother waited two months for her Amazon Echo to arrive. Then, she waited again — leaving it in the box until I came to help her install it. Her forehead crinkled as I download the Alexa app on her phone...
Why You Should Cultivate a Fluid Sense of Self
If you want to learn something about change there is no better place to look than evolution. Nothing represents a continuous and unrelenting cycle of order, disorder, and reorder on a grander scale. For long periods of time, Earth is relatively...
Scientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of nature
The tantalising theory that a fifth force of nature could exist has been given a boost thanks to unexpected wobbling by a subatomic particle, physicists have revealed. According to current understanding, there are four fundamental forces in nature, three of...
So…How Do Adults Make New Friends?
In approximately one month and 10 days, I’ll be on my way to making one of the larger decisions of my adult life (so far, anyway); I’m moving to Austin, Texas, approximately 2,000 miles and one hell of a road...
This Is Where Your Childhood Memories Went
We called them fairy rocks. They were just colorful specks of gravel—the kind you might buy for a fish tank—mixed into my preschool’s playground sand pit. But my classmates and I endowed them with magical properties, hunted them like treasure...
The Mystery Genes That Are Keeping You Alive
One could be forgiven for a little genetic déjà vu. Launched in 1990, the Human Genome Project unveiled its first readout of the human DNA sequence with great fanfare in 2000. The human genome was declared essentially complete in...
How to Thrive When Everything Feels Terrible
We’re surrounded by negativity everywhere we turn. The news we read, social media we peruse, and conversations we have and overhear. We absorb stress from our family, friends, and coworkers. And, it’s taking a toll. The Mighty, a community platform...
You’re Never Too Old to Regain Lost Muscle. And You Can Do It at Home.
Pandemic life had a way of revealing our weaknesses. For those of us of a certain age, I mean that literally. If you are feeling like certain household activities — toting groceries, hoisting children, moving furniture, carrying laundry — are...
What Socrates Can Teach Us About AI
If Socrates was the wisest person in Ancient Greece, then large language models must be the most foolish systems in the modern world. In his Apology, Plato tells the story of how Socrates’s friend Chaerephon goes to visit the oracle at...
3 Simple Habits That Can Protect Your Brain from Cognitive Decline
You might think that the impact of aging on the brain is something you can’t do much about. After all, isn’t it an inevitability? To an extent, as we may not be able to rewind the clock and change our...
5 Amazing New Discoveries About Light
You might think that after centuries of studying light, we know pretty much everything about it. It’s true we’ve had breakthrough after breakthrough in using it, from illumination to communication, from examining the micro- and macro-universes to scanning our own...
How to connect with your future self
Need to know In February 1969, around 10 in the morning, a young Jorge Luis Borges sat down next to an elderly Jorge Luis Borges on a bench by the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Or so it happened in...
2023 So Far
We’re now 7 months into 2023 and I’ve been noticing some things that are quite different from previous years. People are curious for something new, something fresh and different. Almost like folks have stopped saying that’s woowoo...
August Artist of the Month: Gemma Matthews
About the Artist: Hello, my name is Gemma Matthews, also known as The Sewing Songbird. I am a self-taught embroidery artist from Nottingham, England. My stitching journey began in 2018 as something to keep my hands busy and...
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