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Twelve Was the Age I Built Treehouses
A new study from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia confirms what many of us already suspected. The smartphone is not the right gift for a…
May 13
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Follow the Evidence: A Leading Neuroscientist Rethinks Consciousness and Why It Matters Now
When one of the world’s leading neuroscientists starts sounding like a mystic, something important is shifting in how we understand what it means to be…
May 6
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April 2026
The Biology of Good Fortune: What ‘Lucky’ People Do Differently
The science behind optimism, curiosity, and resilience—and how they quietly compound into what we call ‘luck.’
Apr 29
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Monks and Scientists Rethink the Nature of Consciousness
How ancient meditation and modern neuroscience converge to reveal that awareness begins with being, not thinking…
Apr 24
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The Book That Taught Me to Stop “Helping”
There are books you read and enjoy and set down, and there are books that break something open in you permanently.
Apr 22
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I Watched My Father Die, and It Exposed Everything We Don’t Understand About Death
In his final days, I realized how completely unprepared we are for death—and how much that unpreparedness costs us.
Apr 15
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What the Loneliness Numbers Aren’t Telling You (Part 2)
Buried in the data is a detail that really popped out for me: For the first time since they began tracking this, men are lonelier than women. I don’t…
Apr 8
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The Loneliest Civilization in History
The WHO says loneliness kills 871,000 people a year—but the real cause isn’t smartphones or social media. It’s a 10,000-year experiment that dismantled…
Apr 1
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March 2026
The Universe Inside Your Skull
You are not a brain that generates a mind. You are, perhaps, the mind of the universe, temporarily looking out through a particular pair of eyes.
Mar 25
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The Conversations That Change Us Begin After the Noise Falls Away
The conversations that change us rarely happen in the heat of the moment. They happen after the noise fades, when the room settles and someone finally…
Mar 18
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Does Slowing Down Feel Like Failure? A Taboo?
Many people discover, only after they slow down, that much of what they were rushing toward wasn’t actually what they wanted. The space created by…
Mar 11
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What the Body Knows Long Before the Mind Admits It
Part of growing wiser is unlearning the habit of dismissal. It’s learning to ask not just “What do I think about this?” but “What does my body register…
Mar 4
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