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science of us
Feb. 28, 2020
By Katie Heaney
science of us
Feb. 25, 2020
Video Games Are a To-Do List You Play I love video games for the sense of errand satisfaction.
By Katie Heaney
science of us
Feb. 20, 2020
Moderate Drinking May Be More Dangerous Than You Think An increasing number of young people are dying of liver disease.
By Katie Heaney
science of us
Feb. 19, 2020
Runners, Your Shoes Are Too Thicc Sneakers with fat soles might feel comfier, but new studies suggest they might not be good for us.
By Katie Heaney
science of us
Feb. 19, 2020
A Beginner’s Guide to Couples Therapy Ideally, you want to start this process when you’re not in a real crisis.
science of us
Feb. 18, 2020
By Katie Heaney
Dairy Milk Is Even More Useless Than You Thought A new report looks closely at the (lack of) evidence surrounding the USDA recommendation of three servings a day.
By Kelly Conaboy
science of us
Feb. 14, 2020
How to Find a Therapist for the First Time The more daunting it seems, the more you might benefit from the results.
By Charlotte Cowles
new emotions
Feb. 14, 2020
20 More New Emotions, From Readers From “shrediness” and “hongry” to “fungover” and “blooby.”
By The Editors
new emotions
Feb. 7, 2020
That Feeling When Your Fight-or-Flight Response Has No Fight There’s a vague sense of humiliation that accompanies an instinctual retreat from a perceived danger.
By Mark Epstein
new emotions
Feb. 7, 2020
By Melissa Fay Greene
new emotions
Feb. 6, 2020
That Feeling When You Share Your Deepest Secrets With a Stranger There’s an unfettered closeness that comes from spending an intimate night with someone while knowing that you won’t see that person again.
By Bryan Washington
new emotions
Feb. 6, 2020
That Feeling When You’re Haunted by Online Embarrassments Chagrinternet is the lingering feeling of minor humiliation endemic to participating in social life online.
By Dayna Tortorici
new emotions
Feb. 5, 2020
That Feeling When You Bond With Someone Over Feeling the Same Pain It’s not Schadenfreude (damage plus joy). Instead, it’s Freundeschaden (friend plus damage).
By Nell Scovell
new emotions
Feb. 5, 2020
That Feeling When Humiliation From Years Ago Hits You All Over Again You lie in bed, your mind blissfully empty, when suddenly you are awash with rembarrassment — the feeling of eyes on you from 20 years ago.
By Sara Novic
new emotions
Feb. 5, 2020
That Feeling When You’re Nostalgic for a Time You’d Never Want to Relive The general miasma of happy days is rich, but thinking about times of sorrow is what’s really stirring.
By Andrew Solomon
new emotions
Feb. 4, 2020
That Feeling When It’s 3 a.m. and Your Demons Start Talking Nocturnal admissions are the insidious feelings of self-recrimination that take over your brain in states of middle-of-the-night semi-consciousness.
By Greg Jackson
new emotions
Feb. 4, 2020
That Feeling When Another Woman Hypes You Up Veiled in compliments is the same message over and over again: Keep going.
By Jenny Tinghui Zhang
science of us
Feb. 3, 2020
How Long Should a Nap Be? Ten minutes? Thirty? An hour? Help.
By Charlotte Cowles
that feeling when
Feb. 3, 2020
Introducing 78 New Emotions A scientific theory that suggests we have infinite emotions, so long as we can name them — and so we did, asking writers to identify new ways to feel.
By The Editors
that feeling when
Feb. 3, 2020
If You Can Say It, You Can Feel It Some scientists believe we have infinite emotions, so long as we can name them.
By Melissa Dahl
science of us
Jan. 31, 2020
Why Can’t I Commit to a Hobby? I’ve tried knitting, crochet, tarot, and watercolors. Why can’t I make anything stick?
By Katie Heaney
it’s complicated
Jan. 31, 2020
I Got Cheated On, So I Moved Away and Found a Rebound It didn’t last, but that’s what was perfect about it.
By Kate Devine
testing testing
Jan. 28, 2020
Mommy Can’t Talk Right Now — She’s Dopamine Fasting I tried the Silicon Valley trend and came up with a better idea.
By Rebecca Harrington
science of us
Jan. 24, 2020
By Charlotte Cowles
science of us
Dec. 26, 2019
Is Living Longer Always Worth It? A new study says intermittent fasting could lengthen your life, but at what cost?
By Katie Heaney
science of us
Dec. 17, 2019
What to Do When Stress Gives You Hives A dermatologist tells us what to do when stress makes you red and itchy.
it’s complicated
Dec. 13, 2019
My Husband Left Me on the Side of the Road It was the first time we’d laughed in months.
By Addie Morfoot
it’s complicated
Dec. 6, 2019
My Husband’s Pop Star Ex Looks Just Like Me Having a doppelganger was weird at first, but then she became one of my closest friends.
By Leonora Epstein
science of us
Nov. 27, 2019
Lettuce Betrays Us Yet Again The latest in a string of E. coli outbreaks tied to romaine.
By Katie Heaney
terrible bosses
Nov. 18, 2019
What Makes Some People Such Bad Bosses? We, the employed, are impossible to satisfy.
By Katie Heaney
it’s complicated
Nov. 13, 2019
I Traveled 4,000 Miles to Break Up With My Boyfriend in Person I was afraid seeing each other again would make breaking up more painful, but it actually made it easier.
By Suzannah Weiss
science of us
Nov. 7, 2019
‘Virginity Testing’ Is a Dangerous Sham T.I. recently said he has his daughter’s hymen checked annually. It’s a practice that’s shockingly widespread — even though experts say it’s abusive.
By Amanda Arnold
science of us
Nov. 1, 2019
How Do I Make Plans Without ‘Getting a Drink’? It’s hard to make friends as an adult — especially if you don’t drink.
By Katie Heaney
science of us
Oct. 24, 2019
What Does It Mean to Be ‘Cali Sober’? Why some women are replacing alcohol with weed.
By Katie Heaney
science of us
Oct. 17, 2019
Teen Suicide Is Now a Public Health Crisis The suicide rate jumped 56 percent over the past ten years.
By Katie Heaney
Peloton Is Spinning Faster Than Ever The company may have unwittingly created a fitness cult, but their business model is a little more complicated.
By Amy Larocca
It’s Time to Get Your Flu Shot Public-health officials are advising Americans to get the shot ASAP.
By Amanda Arnold
I Measured My Heart-Rate Variability. Why? The ups and downs of quantifying emotional stress with a bracelet.
By Edith Zimmerman
science of us
Sept. 30, 2019
What Do We Really Know About Pedophiles? There are 45 million images of child sex abuse circulating online. What do we know about the people who share them?
By Katie Heaney
science of us
Sept. 26, 2019
A Book That Helped Me Accept Sadness Life is hard, expectations are manageable.
By Edith Zimmerman
science of us
Sept. 17, 2019
By Edith Zimmerman
California Governor Has Signed the Vaccine Bill That Jessica Biel Opposed In June, the actress came under fire for lobbying against SB 276, which tightens the medical exemption process for vaccinations.
By Amanda Arnold
science of us
Aug. 28, 2019
This Could Revolutionize Prenatal Care The neglected placenta gets its scientific due.
By Daniela Blei
science of us
Aug. 27, 2019
One of Life’s Great Injustices Reconsidering my own closing fertility window.
By Edith Zimmerman
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