How to find a date in real life
If you want to hear someone complain, one of your best bets is to ask one of your single friends ...
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What makes a song flop?
Quite a few music artists are in their flop era right now. Think about it: Drake hasn’t been the same ...
Why babies’ experiences matter (even if they can’t remember them)
No matter how hard we try, remembering anything that happened to us before the age of, say, 3 or 4 ...
How to staycation better
I have to be honest about something that is a great source of personal shame: I am really, really bad ...
Four easy ways to live longer
My grandmother lived to be 97. For decades she was active in her church, had long friendships with her sorority ...
Why we don’t actually want a world without mosquitoes
I want you to close your eyes and imagine a perfect summer girls’ night out: It’s dusk and you assemble ...
What we lose when we stop writing by hand
My parents started dating back in the ’80s and for a while, they were long-distance. Since this was before our ...
Don’t let being a renter stop you from home improvement
The internet is full of ambitious people, particularly when it comes to home improvement. You will find people installing an ...
Is it “microcheating,” or just being online?
A few weeks ago, I was zoning out, scrolling through Instagram stories. Among the usual photos of dinner recipes, museum ...
How to prepare for a huge disaster when you live in a tiny apartment
It often feels like we’re on the brink of disaster: Diseases lurk behind every corner and global instability threatens the ...
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