Without looking it up, what can you remember from November 5, 2021? Anything? Me neither. Most of us might remember a major holiday or personal milestone, but little more. A person with... Read more »
Dating after divorce can be both scary and exciting. Opening yourself up again after you’ve gone through a painful divorce takes courage and resilience. Many people feel like they revert to an... Read more »
Social media now acts as a platform to effectively circulate different images of idealized bodies and to popularize them into fitness trends. The current trends include the gym body, the Pilates princess,... Read more »
The story many women hear about menopause and the brain goes something like this: oestrogen declines, the brain changes, cognitive symptoms appear, and somehow the organ that has carried you through several... Read more »
Social media has altered how many people connect, communicate, and maintain relationships. Yet questions remain around what happens to biological systems, evolved for real face-to-face relationships, when they are activated through screens.... Read more »
Our lives are made up of endings: the end of childhood, of a marriage, a job, a dream. Some are obviously heavier and have more impact—a divorce, the loss of a parent,... Read more »
The phrase “losing control of AI” tends to summon one image: a powerful system ignores its instructions, pursues its own objective, and becomes difficult to stop. Until recently, that belonged largely to... Read more »
We often decide we don’t like someone—a colleague, an acquaintance, an actor or influencer—simply because they “annoy” or “irritate” us. The habit someone has of flicking their hair, or sniffing or swallowing... Read more »
Three quarters of a century ago, the preeminent cultural historian Jacques Barzun wrote, “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” Baseball favors a measured, pastoral... Read more »
Most often when we hear references to heroes, we think of soldiers, firefighters, or law enforcement. Dictionary entries for “heroism” are typically circular, defining heroism in terms of the qualities of a... Read more »