New study shows how tickling, playfulness can address key questions about the brain. Inside a Berlin neuroscience lab one day last year, Subject 1 sat …
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Sunday Reads for October 16, 2022
Why can’t we tickle ourselves? The first article introduced me to the word “ticklee” and it’s such an interesting peek into our brains. But if I were giving out awards for magazine writing, I would give one to "Mike Conner v. The Pain” — a searing story about one man’s reckoning after breaking 108 bones in his body. I’m also still thinking about this Felix Baumgartner quote on the 10th anniversary of his stratosphere freefall: “Sometimes you have to go up to understand how small you are.”
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Mike Conner sits in his truck atop a hill in Boring, Oregon, where he can feel the summer breeze through the window and see the sun at its meridian over the fields and the snowcapped tip of a distant Mount Hood poking into a cloud-dotted sky. He sits here and thinks about cutting off his feet. His …
At least 20 Republican politicians have claimed that schools are making accommodations for students who identify as cats. The school districts say these claims are untrue. At a luncheon for Republican women in Mesa County, Colorado, last week, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., warned that educators “are …
The Synthetic Party in Denmark is dedicated to following a platform churned out by an AI, and its public face is a chatbot named Leader Lars. The Synthetic Party, a new Danish political party with an artificially intelligent representative and policies derived from AI, is eyeing a seat in parliament …
In recent years, homelessness marked by meth abuse and tents has moved from the Southland to other cities. But will more housing really solve the …
After six years of preparation, struggle and sacrifice, Felix Baumgartner found himself quite literally on the edge of the world.
At historically Black colleges and universities, halftime is when audience members rush back to their seats for the real show. The drum majors are …
This summer, I went to my first in-person work conference since before the pandemic. As an extrovert, I was excited by the prospect of meeting new people in my field of journalism, rubbing elbows with the best and brightest and trading tips with other reporters. But I lost my confidence as soon as I …
To listen to this story, click the play button below: This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. You’ve probably never heard of Camber, an apparel company founded in Philadelphia in 1982, though you likely know its garments, or ones that are inspired by them. Its …
The origins of Stella Asia Consonni’s latest short film are part dream, part experience and part history. “I was at a park one day and there was a father with his young son. He was attentive and caring, kissing his son’s head and listening to the child’s babbling as if he was having the …
