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Buried alive, leeched, and attacked with a poker: The dark history of nostalgia “cures”

These days, we often consider nostalgia to be a complicated but mostly harmless emotion. It’s full of pathos but, like heartache, it’s something you live with or get over. But it has not always ...

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Your brain loves labels — even when they limit your potential

When I first met Rashida, she introduced herself with a disclaimer: “I’m a little intense.” She said it with a grimace, as if the label left a bad taste in her mouth. I replied, “Good to know. What el...

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Ask Ethan: Where are all the blueshifted galaxies?

Here in the Universe, there’s a fascinating property that nearly every galaxy beyond our own Milky Way seems to possess: the light that we observe from it seems to be shifted toward redder, long...

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Why “read more” may be the most underrated thinking advice we have

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut. […] You have to read wide...

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