Ballet Flats Are Back. Millennials Are Old.
Ballet flats are back. Everyone’s saying it—Vogue, the TikTok girlies, The New York Times, Instagram’s foremost fashion narcs, the whole gang. Shoes from...
It’s the Best Time in History to Have a Migraine
Here is a straightforward, clinical description of a migraine: intense throbbing headache, nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and noise, lasting for hours...
The Only Productivity Hack That Works on Me
Productivity is a sore subject for a lot of people. Philosophically, the concept is a nightmare. Americans invest personal productivity with moral weight,...
How Did an Ineffective Cold Medication Get So Popular?
You wake up with a stuffy nose, so you head to the pharmacy, where a plethora of options awaits in the cold-and-flu aisle....
This Fall’s COVID Vaccines Are for Everyone
Paul Offit is not an anti-vaxxer. His résumé alone would tell you that: A pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he is the...
Basic Sewing Skills Will Make You Rethink Your Body
I started to sew for a simple, selfish reason: I just wanted cool clothes that actually fit my body. I was a very...
Where End-of-Life Care Falls Short
This article originally appeared in Undark Magazine.When Kevin E. Taylor became a pastor 22 years ago, he didn’t expect how often he’d have...
The Deadliest Eating Disorder Is Drug-Resistant
In the 1970s, they tried lithium. Then it was zinc and THC. Anti-anxiety drugs had their turn. So did Prozac and SSRIs and...
How Will Hospitals Decide When to Mask Up This Fall?
Back in the spring, around the end of the COVID-19 public-health emergency, hospitals around the country underwent a change in dress code. The...
The Quandary of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water
The numbers were climbing on a radiation dosimeter as the minibus carried me deeper into the complex. Biohazard suits are no longer required...