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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In 2013, a fire-sprinkler engineer fell five stories from the rafters of a church, shattered 108 bones, and almost died. Then began his battle to walk and live again. 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 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, a new Danish political party with an artificially intelligent representative and policies derived from AI, is eyeing a seat in parliament as it hopes to run in the country’s November general election. The party was founded in May by the artist collective Computer Lars and the …
CNN — After six years of preparation, struggle and sacrifice, Felix Baumgartner found himself quite literally on the edge of the world. “I’m standing there on top of the world outside of a capsule in space and in the stratosphere. I looked around the sky above me was completely black,” Baumgartner …
Beginning in the 1960s, young Black majorettes and dance troupes created a fascinating style of movement. This is the story of how they did it. At …
This story was originally published on Oct. 22, 2022, and has been updated to include a rerun of the podcast episode. 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, …
For decades, Camber's Barry Schwartz has devoted his life to making the highest-quality sweatshirts on the planet. Along the way he’s endured fire and flood, heavyweight competition and the hollowing out of the American textile industry. Now the fashion world has taken notice, and demand is …
Stella Asia Consonni, Dear Dad (2022)12 Images 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 …
