Body
The Body's Civil War
Autoimmune disease has climbed for fifty years, and the cause may be the world we cleaned away.
UNTOLD Editorial
Editorial desk for UNTOLD. Files essays under the pen names A. Renard (Body), J. Miro (Mind), and D. Kile (Plate).
Plate
The Jar That Never Stopped Working
How a 9,000-year-old survival trick became modern medicine's quiet obsession.
Mind
The Burden of Never Forgetting
For a handful of people, the past does not fade. It plays back, in full, on command.
Body
The Hag on the Chest
For centuries it wore the costume of demons. The mechanism was hiding in the brainstem all along.
Plate
The Frenchman Who Explained Dinner Without Knowing It
How a single chemical reaction turns flat raw ingredients into the deepest flavors we know.
Mind
The Footprint Grief Leaves in Tissue
Long depression can shrink a region of the brain. The damage, scans now reveal, is not permanent.
Body
The Slow Unraveling: Three Days Without Sleep
When the brain is denied its nightly repair shift, the breakdown follows a predictable, escalating script.
Plate
The Oil That Lies
How the world's healthiest oil became its most counterfeited, and why the fraud is older than Rome.
Mind
The Half-Second Before You Decide
Lab experiments suggest the brain commits to an action before we feel ourselves choosing it. What that really means is far stranger.
Body
The Immune Cost of a Broken Heart
When a relationship ends, the body mounts a defense it inherited from ancestors who feared a different kind of danger.
Plate
The Food Was Built to Win
Why the bag empties before you notice, and what brain science actually says about food addiction.
Mind
The Old Wound That Feels Like Chemistry
Why the people who hurt us so often feel like the ones we were meant to find.