Body
The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Pain Beneath the Ribs
Why nearly every runner gets a stitch, and why science still cannot fully explain it.
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The Quiet Lie of the Word Natural
Plants were the first chemists, and they did not evolve their molecules to keep us safe.
Mind
The Audience That Was Never There
How a yellow Barry Manilow t-shirt revealed the quiet vanity of being human.
Body
The Maddening Sensation of Repair
Why nearly every healing wound demands to be scratched, and what that signal actually means.
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The Ghost in the Nutrition Label
Why the calorie on your food package is a 19th-century estimate your 21st-century body politely ignores.
Mind
The Verdict Your Brain Reaches Before You Say Hello
A century of psychology suggests we judge strangers in a tenth of a second, and rarely revise.
Body
The Quiet Mutiny of a Sleeping Foot
What pins and needles reveal about the body's most underestimated communication system.
Plate
The Sixty-Year Argument Over a Steak
How one Minnesota physiologist, a misread WHO bulletin, and a methodological civil war turned dinner into a verdict.
Mind
The Mind That Cannot See Its Own Future
Why our forecasts about happiness are almost always wrong, and what the science of affective forecasting reveals.
Body
The Ancient Circuit Behind Your Skin's Smallest Hills
Goosebumps were dismissed as evolutionary debris. Then a Harvard lab looked closer.
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The Long Half-Life of a Nobel Laureate's Mistake
How Linus Pauling convinced a generation that vitamin C could stop a cold, and why the science never followed.
Mind
The Word That Follows You Home
How a small German terror group lent its name to one of the brain's most quietly useful illusions.