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Leaving Secrets: How to Create a Personal Instruction Manual for Life By: Joe Vitale Imagine if your great, great grandfather or grandmother had left you a book with their secrets for living. Maybe it contained nuggets of wisdom, yummy recipes, favorite jokes, or just insights for how to lead a good life. Ever since […]
2022-02-16 This Doctor Thought She Could Navigate US Health Care. Then Her Autistic Son Needed Help. Noam N. Levey Alexander Roodman was packing up his room, preparing for a gap year before college, when I met him at his family’s Washington, D.C., townhouse. The room was a typical teenage disaster zone, with clothes and […]
2022-02-14 Oxytocin’s effects aren’t just about love At last, neuroscientists are learning how the hormone shapes social behaviors such as pair-bonding and parental care. It’s more complicated than they thought. By Bob Holmes When love is in the air, what’s happening in the brain? For many years, biologists would answer, “Oxytocin!” This small protein […]
2022-02-13 He Donated His Kidney and Received a $13,064 Bill in Return by Anjeanette Damon ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The email arrived in Elliot Malin’s inbox from his cousin’s mom. “Scott needs a kidney,” the subject […]
2022-02-09 How the Tiny-Home Movement Is Providing More Than Just a Roof to Homeless People Giles Bruce MADISON, Wis. — Tucked inside a residential neighborhood, and surrounded by a wooden fence and greenery, are nine little houses. With multicolored siding and roofs, they look like people-sized birdhouses. And they fit right in. So does […]
UN: High Risk in Conflicts for Children with Disabilities Urgently Strengthen Protection, Assistance, Inclusion (New York) – Children with disabilities often face increased risk of harm during armed conflict and crises, Human Rights Watch said today. The United Nations and governments around the world need to urgently ensure protection and assistance for children with disabilities in […]
2022-01-28 After Miscarriages, Workers Have Few Guarantees for Time Off or Job-Based Help Bryce Covert For three years, Rachel Makkar said, she thrived in her job as a broker and asset manager at J&B Building Co. in Colorado. She excelled at her work — she said her performance reviews noted that — and […]
From odor to action – how smells are processed in the brain and influence behavior The compact olfactory system provides a more accessible way to study the brain as a whole. Esther Kok/EyeEm via Getty Images John Crimaldi, University of Colorado Boulder; Brian H. Smith, Arizona State University; Elizabeth Hong, California Institute of Technology, and Nathan […]
Fight Stress During Uncertain Times by Volunteering in Your Community (StatePoint) New research suggests that Americans are volunteering to give back to their communities and fight stress during uncertain times. A recent KEEN/Harris Poll Survey found that a majority of Americans see the direct benefits of volunteering, with 86% feeling helping […]
2022-01-24 ‘Heart’ of Little Shell: Newest Federally Recognized Tribe to Open First Clinic Katheryn Houghton GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Louella Fredrickson has long created workarounds to fill gaps in the spotty medical care available to her as a member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. The 86-year-old uses dollar-store reading […]