What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime: A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/unforgiving-places-jens-ludwig-book-review

Why do some people always get lost? Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/why-do-some-people-always-get-lost-but-others-dont

How to Want Less: The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff. By Arthur C. Brooks

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/why-we-are-never-satisfied-happiness/621304/

How Smart People Can Stop Being Miserable: Intelligence can make you happier, but only if you see it as more than a tool to get ahead. By Arthur C. Brooks

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/03/intelligence-well-being-life-satisfaction-happiness/673476/

The Case Against Travel: It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel

The Ancient Art of Nasal Rinsing Might Protect You From a Cold: New research has given credence to a 5,000-year-old practice.

https://www.wired.com/story/cold-nose-washing-nasal-saline-rinse/

Should Friends Offer Honesty or Unconditional Support?" A “culture of passivity” makes many people reluctant to question their friends’ decisions.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/12/do-real-friends-tell-truth-confrontation/672437/

The Secret to a Fight-Free Relationship: Conventional wisdom says that venting is cathartic and that we should never go to bed angry. But couples who save disagreements for scheduled meetings show the benefits of a more patient approach to conflict.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/delaying-conflict-better-venting-relationships-scheduled-disagreement/620057/

Unanchored: Addressing the disconnect among American men: Utah symposium explores masculinity, men’s place in society

https://www.deseret.com/family/2026/01/08/men-boys-society-disconnect-masculinity-suicide-utah-symposium-richard-reeves/

Why smaller houses can lead to happier lives

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/01/06/smaller-houses-happier-lives/

Wolves, long feared and reviled, may actually be lifesavers: A new line of research has revealed a surprising finding about how the presence of wolves helps keep people safe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2025/gray-wolfs-safer-roads-delisting/

Champagne bubbles: the science: As you uncork that bottle and raise your glass, take time to toast physics and chemistry along with the New Year

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2021/champagne-bubbles-science

Do yourself a favor: Thinking of others enhances your well-being, while selfishness just adds to stress, studies show

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2017/do-yourself-favor

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy: Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/

Perspective: Is there a gospel plan for everyone, or just certain kinds of people?: How one man’s experience as a LGBTQ+ Latter-day Saint illustrates that faith is not about fitting a preconceived mold

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/12/26/gospel-plan-for-everyone/

Perspective: What boys are for — why healthy masculinity isn’t enough: Healthy masculinity teaches men how to cope; sacred masculinity teaches them what they are for

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/12/25/sacred-masculinity-why-healthy-masculinity-isnt-enough/ 

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34

How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian The verification tricks that would make fact-checkers weep with joy.

https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/how-to-spot-ai-hallucinations-like

What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Younger: The three reasons old people are happier that work for any age

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/elderly-happiness-advice-stress/685290/

The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down: Grade inflation and the rise of AI are making it impossible for employers to evaluate recent graduates.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/grade-inflation-ai-hiring/685157/

The Lost Generation

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

Why floods threaten one of the driest places in the world: A Washington Post investigation found that in one of the planet’s most arid regions, extreme rain and floods have become frequent and deadly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/interactive/2025/oman-dubai-flooding/

The undersea mountains where sharks rule

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251208-shark-mountains-the-undersea-mountains-where-sharks-rule

The Great Unbalding: Fallen follicles, rise! After decades of failed attempts to regrow lost hair, scientists may have just stumbled across a solution.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/pp405-baldness-cure-hair-loss-treatment-follicles-science-tressless.html

Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize: The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/colleges-ai-education-students/685039/

Accommodation Nation America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/elite-university-student-accommodation/684946/

A Defense of Marriage in a Skeptical Age: The institution of marriage declares the goodness of commitment, love, and fidelity. What happens when society stops valuing it?

https://www.theepochtimes.com/bright/a-defense-of-marriage-in-a-skeptical-age-5848804

There’s a Good Chance Your Gluten Sensitivity Isn’t Gluten: A review of years of research suggests non-celiac gluten sensitivity could be a form of irritable bowel syndrome.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/theres-a-good-chance-your-gluten-sensitivity-isnt-gluten-5936652

Who is to blame for the decline of marriage? The answer might not be what you’d think Some blame men, others blame liberal women, but there’s another factor at play

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/11/25/marriage-decline-social-media-young-women-marriageable-men/

Love your enemies: Why we should stand up for those we disagree with

https://www.deseret.com/magazine/2025/11/08/love-your-enemies-arthur-brooks/

Universal child care can harm children: Its growing popularity in America is a concern

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/05/universal-child-care-can-harm-children

Profits and False Promises: How the war on cancer is good for business.

https://www.vqronline.org/summer-2025/essays/profits-and-false-promises

Holes in the web: Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-slice-of-human-knowledge

Are Your Passwords in the Green?

https://www.hivesystems.com/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green

I wasted so much money on AA batteries because I missed this tiny detail

https://www.makeuseof.com/wasted-money-over-aa-battery-code-meaning/

How to Reject Someone Nicely

https://www.vogue.com/article/how-to-reject-someone-nicely

Inside the Church's Massive Giving Operation (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

 

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation

https://behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-carts-a-somewhat-scientific-investigation/

‘They take the money and go’: why not everyone is mourning the end of USAID

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/04/they-take-the-money-and-go-why-not-everyone-is-mourning-the-end-of-usaid

Booze Without the Burn? An Enzyme-Tinkering Startup Aims to Make Spirits Smoother: Voodoo Scientific has developed a process that, when applied to fiery hooch, results in a more sippable tipple.

https://www.wired.com/story/booze-without-the-burn-voodoo-scientific-viriato/

Treat the Root Cause, Not the Symptom: If we keep treating symptoms instead of causes, America isn’t going to heal—it’s just going to get better at hiding the pain.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/treat-the-root-cause-not-the-symptom-5941492

Why One Doctor Says Depression Treatment Needs a Reset: A former FDA officer argued the ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of depression lacks proof and antidepressants are overprescribed.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/why-one-doctor-says-depression-treatment-needs-a-reset-5937995

Cartels Control Tribal Lands in California, Grow Drugs and Impose Narco-Slavery: Sheriff Matt Kendall estimates up to 80 percent of illicit cannabis in Mendocino County is harvested on reservations.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/cartels-control-tribal-lands-in-california-grow-drugs-and-impose-narco-slavery-5931679

Why Students Are Obsessed With ‘Points Taken Off’: Students and professors are in a drawn-out battle over grade inflation. It may never end.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/grade-inflation-college-fix/684808/

Divorced? With Kids? And an Impossible Ex? There’s AI for That: They didn’t want to put their children in the middle—so they put a machine there instead.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-emotional-spellcheck-difficult-people/

What we lost when cars won: Americans once feared cars. Now we can’t imagine life without them.

https://grist.org/culture/cars-crashes-books-culture/

The Divorce Epidemic Among the People We Pay to Prevent Divorce

https://publicsquaremag.org/sexuality-family/family-matters/divorce-therapist-insights-why-their-own-marriages-fail/

He Co-founded Wikipedia, Now He Says the Site Needs a Radical Change: Larry Sanger says the website has become biased against conservative and religious viewpoints, but sees a way to fix it.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/he-co-founded-wikipedia-now-he-says-the-site-needs-a-radical-change-5928595

Perspective: To understand Columbus, try reading even more about him: Portrayals of Columbus as a villain often rely on select moments taken out of context, while dismissing a great deal of other evidence, including his own stated intentions

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/10/12/seeing-columbus-clearly/

How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/elite-ivy-league-colleges-endowment-inequality-career-funnel-finance-management-consulting-tech-recruiting/

What’s behind the rise in ADHD diagnoses?

https://www.deseret.com/magazine/2025/09/13/adhd-history-diagnosis-treatment-and-controversies/

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-eruption

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/opinion/pete-hegseth-speech-dei.html

Why We’ve Been Chasing 10,000 Steps for Decades—and What Japanese Walking Gets Right Instead

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/japanese-walking/

The Grace That Gives Us Hope

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/opinion/hope-grace-michigan-shooting.html

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it

The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/23/long-read-britain-extreme-cleaner-murder-ben-giles

7 Ways to Handle Your Rude Neighbor

https://time.com/7319993/how-to-handle-rude-neighbor/

The battle over higher education: A movement to punish the Ivy League is gaining steam — but is it going too far?

https://www.deseret.com/magazine/2025/08/28/ackman-trump-political-crisis-in-higher-education/

Cleansing the Brain–TCM Strategies to Guard Against Toxin-Driven Cognitive Decline: Ancient practices are being used in new ways to help keep the brain healthy.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/cleansing-the-brain-tcm-strategies-to-guard-against-toxin-driven-cognitive-decline-5884738

Opinion: When students choose silence and violence — the collapse of free speech on campus

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/09/19/debates-free-speech-on-campus-matter-to-american-civic-life/

Are Some People Addicted to Revenge? A new book explores what drives the brain’s sometimes insatiable quest for vengeance

https://nautil.us/are-some-people-addicted-to-revenge-1238041/

The 21 grams experiment that tried to weigh a human soul: In 1907, Duncan MacDougall put dying patients on a scale.

https://www.popsci.com/science/21-grams-experiment/

Corruption: When norms upstage the law: People with good motives may engage in bribery and worse depending on what society expects of them. A political scientist explains.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/how-corruption-interplays-with-social-norms

Analysis: How does an individual get politically radicalized? Radicalization happens on both sides of the political spectrum. Whenever it does happen, there are common patterns

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/09/17/how-political-radicalization-happens/

What to know about zarfs, the fanciest way to drink coffee

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-s1-5541377/word-language-history-zarf-turkey-coffee-java-jacket

Russell M. Nelson: We All Deserve Dignity and Respect

https://time.com/7315003/russell-nelson-dignity-respect/

The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A: In the era of grade inflation, students at top colleges are more stressed than ever.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/harvard-college-grade-inflation/684021/

Canada Is Killing Itself: The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/

 It doesn’t feel quite right to say that Canada slid down a slippery slope, because keeping off the slope never seems to have been the priority. But on one point Etienne Montero, the former head of the European Institute of Bioethics, was correct: When autonomy is entrenched as the guiding principle, exclusions and safeguards eventually begin to seem arbitrary and even cruel. This is the tension inherent in the euthanasia debate, the reason why the practice, once set in motion, becomes exceedingly difficult to restrain.

Can’t put solar panels on your roof? Plug-in ‘balcony solar’ may be for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/12/balcony-solar-plug-in-rooftop/

The Monster at the Dinner Table: Doctors are seeing rising cases of ARFID, a childhood disorder that shuts off the basic human instinct to eat.

https://www.thecut.com/article/what-is-arfid-eating-disorder-kids-diagnosis-rising.html

It turns out there’s a right and wrong way to pee

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07/28/peeing-pelvic-floor-bladder-incontinence/

End the Phone-Based Childhood Now: The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/

Why Marriage Survives: The institution has adapted, and is showing new signs of resilience.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/marriage-institution-value-comeback/683564/

How Monopoly games rescued POWs from German prison camps

https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Author-Q-As/2025/0725/monopoly-x-philip-orbanes-world-war-2