The books have been there for years. A memoir with a bookmark stalled at page 47. A novel someone gave you three birthdays ago. A collection of essays you keep meaning to finish.
There is a mental image most of us reach for without thinking. Loneliness looks like an elderly person in a quiet house, the phone that rarely rings, the empty chair across the table.
Elias Stadiatis surfaced off the coast of Antikythera in the spring of 1900 wearing a copper diving helmet and canvas suit, and told his captain he had just seen a heap of rotting
Some weather stations in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile have recorded no measurable rainfall for centuries. Not a drizzle. Not a passing shower. And yet, in the same terrain where the soil
The vagus nerve is a two-way road with badly unbalanced traffic. Roughly 80 percent of its fibres are believed to carry signals upward, from the organs to the brain, and only about 20
My grand-aunt sat at the head of every family table for as long as I knew her. She was the one you cleared the big decisions with, whose opinion could end an argument,
For years my actual job was to make strangers feel like regulars before the bread hit the table. Restaurants run on it. A guest walks in cold, slightly on guard, half-convinced they’ve overdressed,
Corgi, a business-insurance startup that sells coverage to other startups, announced on May 28 a $106 million Series B1 round that values it at $2.6 billion. The raise landed just three weeks after
A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and the days may feel less hurried. A person can
Wendy Wood, a psychologist, handed pagers to a group of undergraduates and asked them to record what they were doing, where they were, and what they were thinking every hour they were awake.