Are older people happier than we assume? Data shows over half of adults 62+ feel fulfilled. Here's what drives happiness as we age.

Some observations about women's daily lives, what's happening at Cornell, and why safety still falls on us

What to do with feedback from editor and early readers

8 of the best fermented foods for gut health — yogurt, kefir, kimchi, miso — plus how to add them to your diet and what research says.

TW: We discuss sexual assault, rape and the aftermath in depth here.

Lost in a maze or found in a labyrinth? Come, let’s keep walking.

Making collection purchases in small and rural libraries involves several calculations, but librarians still prioritize diversity because it matters.

Chapter Four: Stepmother

We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.

Bhavani Jamakkalam has been woven for over three centuries, but its active weaver base has reportedly fallen from about 20,000 to 3,000. Varsha Sivakumar is helping it find new buyers.

Social media is often seen as a mirror for human cruelty. One man built a TikTok army of 500,000 to fix it. Their weapon: kindness.

"Such generosity is the mark of people with huge hearts."

Not all fruits and veggies are equal for heart health. Learn which flavanol-rich foods deliver the biggest cardiovascular benefits.

A good question loosens them just enough for another possibility to become visible.

And now she needs your help to get him the care that he needs.

What if better cities began with smaller choices, like waiting your turn, paying fairly and taking care of what everyone shares? In Aizawl, the hill c...

I’ve noticed a trend, both inside and outside my office, that has become pretty undeniable of late.

Although it’s easy to forget to pay attention to ourselves, not doing so can be a potential killer. Marie, a young woman whom I love, is a single mother with two little girls, one biological and one a...

“It is simple enough, and true enough, to say that Annie was unlike anyone I’d ever met, then or since.” Robert Baird remembers Annie Dillard, who died last week, at 81.

That deep bond with your pet may be doing more for your emotional health than you realize.

Chapter Three: The Talisman

​              ​As we get older, something interesting happens to our circle of friends. No, I’m not talking about losing people to death, although that is certainly one of life’s...

A lot of the memories that you thought were gone forever can be retrieved.

It requires patience, judgment, restraint, courage, and a willingness to remain present in uncertainty.

The first thing you ever did for yourself was breathe. In order to enter into this life, you needed to take that first breath, no matter how scary or unfamiliar it felt to do so. And consciously focus...

That moment of sweet immersion in the task at hand: that’s flow. With some strategy, you can experience it more often

I love revising because I already have something to work with. Now we get to make it better.

What a wondrous kaleidoscope of contradictions, idiosyncrasies, and lovable qualities we women are. Many of the paradoxes and quirks we display actually serve to make us fun and interesting to be arou...

Four Patterns We Learn Early and Keep Repeating

A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment but a privilege — th…

It seems the workaholic is back.

Belinda Manning is a poet, multidisciplinary artist, Yin Yoga teacher, and lifelong community volunteer and activist. She marched in the civil rights movem...

“Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern… the whole world is a work of art… there is no Shakespeare… no Beethoven… no God; we are the words; we are the music; we ar…

We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting o…

We are always choosing between personalities. For instance, even if you were having an absolute melt-down, you would immediately switch to a helper personality if an injured child needed you. Becoming...