A Simple Tool To Dissolve Overwhelm

A Simple Tool To Dissolve Overwhelm

When life feels overwhelming, the solution isn’t always to do less. Sometimes, it’s to feel smaller. Not in a powerless way—but in a cosmic, grounding way. I recently read a BBC article about the growing practice of star bathing—lying under a dark sky and simply...
Diet Sodas: The Big Drink Debate

Diet Sodas: The Big Drink Debate

Sometimes the biggest scientific discoveries happen because scientists do slightly questionable things that would give today’s lab safety officers a heart attack. Take James Schlatter, a chemist working at G.D. Searle & Company in 1965. While researching...
The Game You Don’t Know You’re Playing

The Game You Don’t Know You’re Playing

Picture this: You’re crushing it at Monopoly, properties stacked high, hotels gleaming on Park Lane, when someone gently taps your shoulder and says, “Hey, we’re actually playing Chess.” That’s essentially what’s happening to...
Dry February: A 200-Year-Old Experiment Worth Trying

Dry February: A 200-Year-Old Experiment Worth Trying

In 1832, a cheese merchant named Joseph Livesey did something radical in the industrial town of Preston, England. At a time when beer and spirits were as common as water—often with devastating effects on health and families—he and six others signed the Preston Pledge,...