Kimberly Kopecky, M.D., MSCI, a UAB surgeon specializing in high-risk abdominal procedures, created The Empathy Project to help trainees improve at having tough conversations with patients and ...

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Nine teams fired their head coaches this season. Let's break them down from least to most appealing for a high-value playbook architect.

Fifty-five years after Oak Ridge High School Class of 1970 graduate Larry Lunsford was first featured in The Oak Ridger in an ...

People with low tolerance for the unknown often feel the need for closure. They prefer what is predictable to keep a semblance of order. A study in the journal Personality and Individual Differences ...

My parents have been fighting a lot—every day for the last week. My dad found out that my mom was cheating on him (with my ex). I am hurt because my mom knows that I still love him. What will help my ...

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The Trump administration is making it harder to pass the oral exam required for immigrants seeking naturalization as U.S. citizens. The new test is also longer. Green card holders who file for ...

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality. By ...

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The first time I interviewed Etgar Keret about one of his short story collections, he told me that fiction helped him make sense of a crazy world. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) ETGAR KERET: It ...