How to Navigate Your Menopause
Women entering perimenopause often experience hot flashes, mood swings, and cognitive fog due to fluctuating estrogen and progesterone. The guide from the Menopause Research and Clinical Team outlines medical options such as hormone therapy, as well as lifestyle strategies—including diet, exercise, sleep hygiene, mindfulness, and CBT—to mitigate these symptoms. It emphasizes tracking symptoms with validated scales to personalize care and highlights the importance of social support. The article positions menopause as a transitional phase that can be managed proactively.
How to Eat for a Healthy Brain
U.S. psychiatrist Tracey Marks highlights a clear link between diet and brain health, emphasizing that nutrition directly influences energy, mood, and overall wellbeing. She outlines a "brain‑healthy" eating pattern rich in omega‑3s, antioxidants, B‑vitamins, and fiber while noting common gaps...
Not Fight, Flight or Freeze, but Fawn
The article spotlights the emerging concept of the fawn response—a people‑pleasing survival tactic that complements the classic fight, flight and freeze reactions—and links it to childhood trauma and modern workplace dynamics. It critiques the wellness industry’s sleep‑tracker craze, warning that...
How to Bring up Pet Peeves in Your Relationship
Every long‑term partnership encounters minor irritations that can snowball into resentment if left unchecked. Relationship experts explain that these pet peeves often mask deeper questions about respect, needs, and emotional safety. By using Gottman‑based techniques—soft start‑ups, timing, and curiosity—couples can...
Have Online Worlds Become the Last Free Places for Children?
Children’s physical independence has sharply declined over the past five decades, with a 2025 Harris poll showing 62% of U.S. kids aged eight to twelve never walking or biking alone. Researchers link reduced mobility to poorer wellbeing, while digital platforms...
How to Practise a Musical Instrument
A concert guitarist outlines the AIR framework—Awareness, Isolation, Repetition—as a disciplined approach to musical practice. He warns against the common habit of restarting a piece after every mistake and instead advocates isolating problem spots, practicing them slowly and loudly, and...
A Hack for Germaphobia
Psychology professor Tara Donker of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is creating an augmented‑reality (AR) app that immerses germ‑phobic users in simulated filthy environments to break their contamination fears. The tool builds on her earlier AR treatments for acrophobia and arachnophobia, using controlled...
A Prescription for Randomness
The essay weaves personal anecdotes with cultural references to argue that embracing randomness can spark creativity, from product ideas to relationships. It critiques the booming sleep‑tracker market, warning that inaccurate data can cause orthosomnia and anxiety. The author also contrasts...
On Being
London‑based electronic composer Max Cooper released his new album "On Being," built on a crowdsourced pool of audience‑submitted "unspoken words" that answered personal prompts. He turned these raw emotions into music, partnering with French musician Félix Gerbelot for the title track...
How to Thrive as an Adoptee
The guide outlines how adoptees—especially those in transracial families—can move from merely managing their past to thriving. It highlights that roughly 1.8 million U.S. children are adopted, with 44% placed in families of a different race, creating dual‑identity and attachment challenges....
Turn Off Your Sleep Tracker
The essay critiques the wellness boom around sleep trackers, highlighting how they can foster orthosomnia—anxiety over achieving perfect sleep—and often provide inaccurate data. It argues for viewing personality as fluid traits rather than fixed types, which eases self‑criticism and improves...
Rusty’s Ascent
Jordan Halland’s short documentary "Rusty’s Ascent" chronicles the life of Robert “Rusty” Baillie, a mountaineer who dreamed of Everest after watching the 1953 film. It follows his early climbs in Zimbabwe, his role in the 1982 expedition that placed the...
We’ll Soon Find Out What Is Truly Special About Human Writing
The essay argues that large language models (LLMs) are reshaping writing by severing the traditional link between text and a responsible human author. It draws parallels to past disruptions—Gutenberg’s press, typewriters, and word processors—showing how each changed production but not...
The Cure for Body Dissatisfaction that Doesn’t Involve the Body
The article argues that chronic body dissatisfaction—fuelled by thin‑ideal trends like the thigh gap and social‑media fads—can be mitigated by cultivating awe through natural environments. Psychological research links self‑efficacy from enjoyable exercise to healthier body image, but media‑literacy warnings often...
The Strange Story of Phineas Gage
In 1848, 25‑year‑old construction worker Phineas Gage survived an iron rod that blasted through his frontal lobe, a feat that stunned 19th‑century physicians. Early accounts painted him as a dramatically altered, childlike personality, turning his case into a cautionary tale of...