“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.” — John Lennon, Strawberry Fields Forever

We just came across this Marketwatch opinion article by Michael Brush, a contributor to the New York Times and The Economist, among other news outlets.  He espouses...

It’s the stuff nightmares are made of: For months on end, a woman living in Ipswich, England, was awoken nightly by the far-off strains of a child’s recorded voice, singing the nursery rhyme “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring.” Eventually, the noise would depart—only to come...

Joe Hutto, who is sixty-one, has spent most of his waking life looking at wild turkeys. He may have looked at more of them than any other living American, with the “possible exception” of Lovett E. Williams, Jr., a wildlife biologist, and the bird’s principal, and prob...

With one dietary change, the U.S. could almost meet greenhouse-gas emission goals.

Ecoanxiety is an emerging condition. Named in 2011, the American Psychological Association recently described it as the dread and helplessness that come with “watching the slow and seemin...

When Roger Federer played at the US Open this week, his tennis match took place in temperatures that exceeded 30°C (86°F). He lost—the first time the 37-year-old has been beaten by a player ranked outside of the top 50 at the event. “You just keep on sweating more and...

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