This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. It may seem like a strange time to think about the future, ...

Two spoken word poets, Lailonie Johnson and Dakohai Matityahu, opened the show, immediately penetrating barriers between performers and the audience as well as between audience members themselves.

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One beautiful summer day in the ocean off Panama City Beach, two boys out for a swim got caught in a rip current. When their mother heard their cries, she and several other family members dove into ...

As more than 100 million people use ChatGPT on a daily basis, research has found that such artificial intelligence tools are doing more to the way we communicate than just polishing emails. In the ...

With the help of mental health experts, we’ve taken a look at some of the most significant breakthroughs concerning mental health over the last 10 years, as well as where we need to do better going ...

It’s the age of “fake news” and gone are the days of waiting for the morning news for breaking stories or reading gossip magazines for the latest celebrity dirt. We now have all the information we ...

I was nineteen, maybe twenty, when I realized I was empty-headed. I was in a college English class, and we were in a sunny seminar room, discussing “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” or possibly “The Waves.” ...

At some point in our lives, many of us realize that the way we hear our own voice isn't the way others hear us. This gap has consequences. It shapes how we see ourselves and how others see us. At some ...

As a Black girl growing up in a segregated St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1950s and early ’60s, I adopted the prevailing story about our country. Nobody ever sat me down and laid it out. Rather, it was ...

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The fact that you're even reading these words represents a victory. So how are we all doing it? How are all these words getting into our eyes (inescapably) and ears (increasingly) and brains ...