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How to Help Dogs and Cats Manage Separation Anxiety

Separation anxiety is difficult for both you and your pet, but a few simple changes can make a huge difference if you’re expecting to be away for a longer amount of time during the day.

BBC Future

How Your Family Shapes Your Body Image

Comments about our looks from our loved ones and friends can cause lifelong insecurities. How can we teach kids to feel confident about their bodies instead?

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Wednesday, August 13
Bitter Southerner

For the Living of These Days

Every summer, locals reenact the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, where Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan remains something of a hero. I wanted to see for myself why this story still resonates.

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Big Think

How to Instantly Be Better at Things

It’s a funny quirk of the human condition that sometimes simply asking, of a given task, “How would someone much, much better than me approach this?” immediately makes you better at it. Like, right away. Weird! It shouldn’t be so easy. But sometimes it is.

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