Julie Beck
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Adrees Latif / Reuters 'We Thought You'd Like to Look Back on This Post from 1 Year Ago’
Reexperiencing Election Day 2016 through the social network’s “memories” feature can be painful for those who lost.
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Unicode / The Atlantic There's No Toilet Like Home
Why coming back to a familiar environment triggers a sudden urge to go to the bathroom
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Sean Gallup / Getty 'It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers' Will Never Die
The author of the classic humor piece on his “spewing” of joy for autumn
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VCG Wilson / Corbis / Getty Imagining the Future Is Just Another Form of Memory
Humans’ ability to predict the future is all thanks to our ability to remember the past.
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters 'People Who Boast About Their IQ Are Losers'
Studies say that bragging about your superiority makes people like you less—so what does Donald Trump hope to gain?
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The CW / Netflix Gossip Girl's Prophetic Relationship With Technology
The 10-year-old show predicted the codependent, toxic relationships people would one day have with their phones.
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David McNew / Reuters The 'Unfortunate Family' of American Shooting Survivors
Many people affected by gun violence find solace in the friendship of others who’ve been in their shoes.
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PM Images / Getty / Katie Martin / ... Love in the Time of Individualism
Two new books explore America’s changing romantic landscape.
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Plume Creative / Getty How Friends Become Closer
It’s hard to organize a busy life so that it has enough room for deep friendships, but there are a few strategies that may help.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters Will Flooding in Texas Lead to More Mosquito-Borne Illness?
Long-term damage from Hurricane Harvey could create more breeding grounds for the insects.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters There Are 11,518 Robert Lees in America
What it’s like to share a name with an infamous historical figure
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Justin Paget / Getty / Zak Bickel / ... Constant Anxiety Won't Save the World
Spreading fear and worry about issues you care about on social media can lead to burnout rather than action.
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Patrick Stolkey The Turkey in the Left Turn Lane
How a bird that stood in traffic captivated, united—and divided a town
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Ian Bogost A Search for the Flavor of a Beloved Childhood Medicine
My quest to identify where amoxicillin’s taste came from—and why it inspires such nostalgia
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Nacho Doce / Reuters The Case for Testing Zika Vaccines on Pregnant Women
An ethics group stresses the importance of including the disease’s most vulnerable population in clinical trials.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters HHS Secretary Defies Trump on Ebola Travel Ban
Trump advocated shutting infected Americans out of the country during the 2014 outbreak. But Tom Price praised Obama’s response and said the U.S. has a moral responsibility to care for its health volunteers abroad.
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C2 Photography HHS Secretary: The Congressional Budget Office Is ‘Not Accurate’
Tom Price questioned the ability of the agency to estimate the number of people who would lose health insurance under Congress’s Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan.
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Jason Reed / Reuters 'Of All the Categories of Fake News, Health News Is the Worst'
Misinformation about well-being is particularly rife, and particularly dangerous.
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China Daily / Reuters The Challenge of Fighting Mistrust in Science
Emphasizing the way scientific findings play out in people’s everyday lives could help.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters To Remember Random Errands, Turn Them Into a Story
A memory trick that plays on the human brain’s innate desire for narrative.
