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How I Lost My Hair and Found a Community
I was terrified that chemotherapy meant saying goodbye to all my hair. I couldn’t have predicted what I’d discover in its place.
I was terrified that chemotherapy meant saying goodbye to all my hair. I couldn’t have predicted what I’d discover in its place.
Bronnie Ware, a former palliative care nurse and bestselling author, shares the five most common regrets of the dying—and her advice on how to live a life full of happiness and joy.
These are the titles that reignited our love for literature.
Though inherently impermanent, deltas have been essential to both people and wildlife for thousands of years. But recent shifts have brought on losses that worry scientists.
A recent effort to overhaul math and science education offers a fundamental rethinking of the basic structure of knowledge. But will it be given time to work?
Poe’s contemporaries and forebears had a lot to say about the new genre, and his detective, the brilliant Dupin.
While the exact phrase didn’t enter the language until the 1930s, using children as a means to raise funds for hospitals goes way back.
Whether it's indulgent food choices or North Korean secrets, the stuff that people throw away can reveal all, says Chris Baraniuk.
Mathematicians are unimpressed by engineers’ solutions.
Walking is an effective, low-impact cardio workout with benefits that go well beyond calorie burn. Still, here’s what to keep in mind if you’re keeping track.
Black markets and American wheat imports popularized ramen.
Are parents turning their kids into whiny weaklings by overconsoling them?
From bad bosses to gossipy colleagues and, of course, office refrigerator drama.
Many households would descend into chaos without somewhere to jot down work commitments, after-school activities, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries … But do you run the planner, or does the planner run you?
My boyfriend and I knew our relationship was over. We decided to go to New Zealand anyway.
Sara Burnett went from an introductory course to a world championship in just over a year.
On July 4, the Guadalupe ripped our home from its pillars, pulling my family into its waters and into the night. Then morning came.
A man’s death after using “Flow” in a small Vermont city exposed a drug operation that spanned continents and sent a New York prosecutor on a heartbreaking journey.
For nearly a year, a motley crew scoured New Orleans for a shaggy white mutt named Scrim.
I asked an AI-powered recipe generator to make some menus. It didn’t tell me to put glue in my guacamole, but the results didn’t come close to besting recipes written by professionals.
Young Americans today spend 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did at the beginning of the 21st century. Why?
A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.
BYD, the Chinese car company, is the first automaker to add full Level 4 autonomous parking to all its cars.
The note was “like a little secret,” said one of the people who opened it, “but now it has brought so much joy to so many people.”
A sleep coach explains how to blink your way to better sleep.
My mother was movie obsessed. It was a hold-over from growing up in a tiny town in rural Oklahoma in the ’40s, when many families went nightly to the cinema to get their news and stay for a film. It was cheap, and a place to escape dustbowl poverty into silver screen glamour.
Bennett Winch’s best-selling Trifold is a study in smart simplicity.
How a common birth control method became the center of a reckoning.
Ukraine is in danger of being overwhelmed by deadly strikes as Russia sends in swarms of drones.
Medical experts weigh in on the trend.
Legislators say they face new state budget burdens because of the law and are clamoring for solutions that might help fill in shortfalls or avoid major deficits.
A new documentary explores the film that preyed on our fears and fasciation with sharks.
James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ is great until it climaxes with the same numbing effects-overkill as most other Marvel/DC efforts. It’s time to find another way to end these movies.
The science of who is (and isn’t) trustworthy. Why are some people perceived as more trustworthy than others?
Emotional depletion is a real and significant tax of modern leadership. Recovery is no longer a luxury.
Our natural impulses often make matters worse. Here’s an approach that works, grounded in conflict resolution and psychology.
There's a reason people are commonly advised not to retire on Social Security alone. The average monthly benefit won't go very far in helping seniors cover their costs.
As job-seekers look for work in a challenging environment, an increasing number are falling victim to job scams that promise good pay for completing easy online tasks, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
Why do so many high-performing professionals keep working at a punishing pace, even when it damages their health, relationships, and personal well-being?
One of the first and most important decisions entrepreneurs make is whether to go it alone or bring on cofounders.
Experts worry that if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal.
Several larger trials of ambroxol for Parkinson's are already underway.
Saving more money is a perennial resolution, but emotions shouldn't drive that habit, financial experts say. Instead, be intentional. Here's how to get started.
People worry that others will see them as immoral and incompetent for quitting their passion. These fears are often misplaced.
My futile quest to avoid the material that my entire world is made out of.