What Really Happens When Babies Are Left to Cry It Out?: Some parents see “sleep training” as the key to a good night's rest. Others argue that it's distressing for babies. What do scientists say about its risks and benefits?

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-really-happens-when-babies-are-left-to-cry-it-out

‘The Story of a Weird World I Was Warned Never to Tell’

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-story-of-a-weird-world-i-was-warned-never-to-tell

What Sets the Church Apart: Vertical, Geographic, and Unpaid

https://latterdaysaintmag.com/what-sets-the-church-apart-vertical-geographic-and-unpaid/

This is the best explanation I've found that explains how and why we can do what we do.

Gray Hair Can Return to Its Original Color—and Stress Is Involved, of Course: The universal marker of aging is not always a one-way process.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/gray-hair-can-return-to-its-original-color-and-stress-is-involved-of-course

How to Send a Dish Back Without Making Your Waiter Hate You Whether your meal is really salty, really cold, or just really disappointing, there are right and wrong ways to send it back. Here’s how three restaurant pros handle the uncomfortable situation.

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/how-to-send-food-back-restaurants

The IRS Already Has Your Income Tax Data—So Why Do Americans Still Have to File Their Taxes?: A tax expert explains why the US continues to use such a complex and costly income tax system.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-irs-already-has-all-your-income-tax-data-so-why-do-americans-still-have-to-file-their-taxes

Are you catastrophizing? Here’s how to stop assuming the worst.: Nine experts weigh in on curbing and diffusing your overly negative thoughts.

https://www.vox.com/even-better/24055564/catastrophizing-stop-assuming-the-worst-negative-thoughts

I was Hypnotized as a Teen. Was it Dangerous?: Each year, comedy hypnotists bring thousands of willing participants on stage to be hypnotized in front of crowds—harmless fun or risky business?

https://longreads.com/2024/01/25/i-was-hypnotized-as-a-teen-was-it-dangerous/

The Heart Rate Secret: What It Reveals About Our Health—From Sleep and Alcohol to Fight or Flight

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-heart-rate-secret-what-it-reveals-about-our-health-from-sleep-and-alcohol-to-fight-or-flight

What Happened to My Search Engine?: Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/what-happened-to-my-search-engine

Look for these 9 red flags to identify food that is ultra-processed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/01/02/ultra-processed-foods-identification/

Hacker Lexicon: What Is Credential Stuffing?

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-credential-stuffing/

The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the-plastic-chemicals-hiding-in-your-food-a7358224781/

The Remarkable Brain of a Carpet Cleaner Who Speaks 24 Languages

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-remarkable-brain-of-a-carpet-cleaner-who-speaks-24-languages

These 10 Breathing Exercises Can Help You Feel Calmer Right Now

 https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a39286766/breathing-exercises-for-anxiety/

The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think

 https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cause-of-depression-is-probably-not-what-you-think-20230126/

How America’s patchwork death notification system leaves families in the dark A free federal database could help prevent the dead from going unclaimed. But an NBC News investigation found the vast majority of coroners and medical examiners don’t use it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/namus-database-coroner-medical-examiner-pauper-cemetery-rarely-used-rcna129741

The World Is Going Blind. Taiwan Offers Warning and, a Cure

 https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-epicenter-of-world-myopia-epidemic

A Living History of The Humble Paper Airplane

 https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/a44112898/history-of-paper-airplanes/

The professor of happiness: Arthur Brooks on the secret of contentment

 https://www.deseret.com/2023/2/27/23591623/arthur-brooks-interview

Let’s restore the lost art of civic virtue: The Founding Fathers lived by public civic virtue. Our country can’t survive without it

 https://www.deseret.com/2023/2/27/23591571/founding-fathers-civic-virtue

How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain

 https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-loneliness-reshapes-the-brain-20230228

Words and Phrases to Avoid in a Difficult Conversation

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/words-and-phrases-to-avoid-in-a-difficult-conversation

How to Stop Overthinking Everything

https://hbr.org/2021/02/how-to-stop-overthinking-everything

‘Underreaction’ Is Your Best Parenting Tool

 https://lifehacker.com/underreaction-is-your-best-parenting-tool-1850149458

Fat, Sugar, Salt … :You’ve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong Scientists are asking tough questions about the health effects of ultra-processed diets. The answers are complicated—and surprising.

 https://www.wired.com/story/ultra-processed-foods/

Perspective: Faith is a factor in good mental health. Why are so many people unable to see this?

 https://www.deseret.com/2023/2/16/23589985/faith-mental-health-perception-lgbtq-teens

There Are Eight Forms of Intelligence, Not Just One: Which Apply to You?

 https://www.openculture.com/2022/10/there-are-eight-forms-of-intelligence-not-just-one-which-apply-to-you.html

New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much?: Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.

 https://www.curbed.com/2023/01/nyc-real-estate-covid-more-apartments-higher-rent.html

What We've Lost Playing the Lottery

 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/what-weve-lost-playing-the-lottery

An 80-Year Harvard Study Found the Secret to a Happy Life. These 9 Simple Habits Make It Possible: "One thing continuously demonstrates its broad and enduring importance ..."

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/an-80-year-harvard-study-found-secret-to-a-happy-life-these-9-simple-habits-will-improve-yours.html

This study is famous in academic circles. There's never been one like it before it or since. I've been aware of it for about 40 years. The findings have been consistent over time as well.

79 Years Ago, a Spy Agency Showed Agents 8 Ways to Sabotage Business Meetings. Unfortunately, Most Can Still Be Found in Every Meeting You Attend: A U.S. spy agency's 'General Interference With Organizations and Production' list might as well be a blueprint for the average meeting.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/79-years-ago-a-spy-agency-showed-agents-8-ways-to-sabotage-business-meetings-unfortunately-most-can-still-be-found-in-every-meeting-you-attend.html

The New Case for Social Climbing: Meritocracy is make-believe. It’s all about who you know.

 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/social-climbing-meritocracy-networking/672675/

The 27 Best Decluttering Tips of All Time: Once the extra, unnecessary stuff is deleted, only the best is left.

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-27-greatest-decluttering-tips-of-all-time

The Forgotten Art of Squatting Is a Revelation for Bodies Ruined by Sitting: In much of the world, squatting is as normal a part of life as sitting in a chair.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-forgotten-art-of-squatting-is-a-revelation-for-bodies-ruined-by-sitting

How to Brush Your Teeth Properly, According to a Dentist

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-brush-your-teeth-properly-according-to-a-dentist

Why short-sightedness is on the rise

 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220927-can-you-prevent-short-sightedness-in-kids

Your Section-by-Section Guide to Storing Foods in the Fridge, From the Upper Shelves to the Crisper Drawers: Where you store your food can impact how long it stays fresh and reduce your risk of cross contamination.

 https://www.marthastewart.com/8316531/how-to-organize-foods-in-refrigerator

Tour Amazon's dream home, where every appliance is also a spy: Here's everything Amazon learns about your family, your home and you

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/amazon-smart-home/

America’s most remarkable kid died in Newcastle, Utah — his legacy never will

https://www.deseret.com/2022/8/22/23309244/cole-summers-died-newcastle-utah-warren-buffett-charlie-munger-bari-weiss-unschooled

Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened

 https://www.wired.com/story/polio-is-back-in-the-us-and-uk-heres-how-that-happened/

Perspective: The atheist who warned the world about porn addiction

https://www.deseret.com/2022/8/2/23268655/perspective-the-atheist-who-warned-the-world-about-porn-addiction-gary-wilson-your-brain-on-porn?

Hoboken Hasn’t Had a Traffic Death in Four Years. What’s It Doing Right?

https://www.curbed.com/2022/06/hoboken-traffic-deaths-none-vision-zero-streets.html

Teenage Justice A list of boys “to look out for” appeared on a high-school bathroom wall last fall. The story of one of them.

 https://www.thecut.com/article/cancel-culture-high-school-teens.html

Washington D.C. Temple Open House: A Capital Success

https://latterdaysaintmag.com/washington-d-c-temple-open-house-a-capital-success/

Real Estate Reality Shows Are Lying to You

 https://lifehacker.com/real-estate-reality-shows-are-lying-to-you-1849028260

How San Francisco Became a Failed City: And how it could recover

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/

When Scientific Minds Abandon Scientific Principles: The Mystery Behind Why My Grandfather Refused to Talk About Dinosaurs

https://thepulse.one/2022/06/08/when-scientific-minds-abandon-scientific-principles-the-mystery-behind-why-my-grandfather-refused-to-talk-about-dinosaurs/

The greatest enemies of science are scientists who refuse to debate their critics, and the scientists and politicians who use politics to stifle debate. “The science is settled,” they often say as they wave their credentials in your face or make reference to consensus. Of all the crimes against science, the worst is this phrase and these two anti-scientific arguments used to legitimize it. These chilling words extinguish the habit of independent thinking, they teach new generations that some questions are off limits, they tell others that careers and funding may depend on alignment with establishment views, they allow scoundrels to silence their critics, and they elevate scientific knowledge to the realm of faith, exempt from the burden of proof. This contemptible phrase, and the two anti-scientific arguments used to legitimize it, turn the discipline of science into a political exercise, empowering those spouting politically correct proclamations to function as a sort of Ministry of Truth with the power to tell others how to think and what to believe.

Perspective: The church was my escape from misogyny and violence: My childhood left me shot through with fear and shame. Good Latter-day Saints helped me heal

https://www.deseret.com/2022/6/7/23149268/perspective-the-church-was-my-escape-from-misogyny-and-violence-latter-day-saints-healing-trauma

This 715-song playlist is scientifically verified to give you the chills, thanks to “frisson”

 https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/frisson-song-playlist/

Why Was the Tonga Eruption So Massive? Scientists Have New Clues

 https://www.wired.com/story/why-was-the-tonga-eruption-so-massive-scientists-have-new-clues/

Why these men find the phrase ‘toxic masculinity,’ well, toxic

 https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0131/Why-these-men-find-the-phrase-toxic-masculinity-well-toxic

What We Don't Want to Know

 https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypybk/what-we-dont-want-to-know

Can we learn something from Catholics and Latter-day Saints when it comes to America’s therapist shortage?

 https://www.deseret.com/faith/2021/12/21/22843101/what-we-should-be-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-the-therapist-shortage-anxiety-pandemic

Opinion: Balancing the tensions of our Latter-day Saint and LGBTQ conversations We can do better in holding to both truth and love without neglecting one or the other

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2021/10/21/22717022/balancing-the-tensions-of-our-latter-day-saint-and-lgbtq-conversations-mormon-truth-love

The Real Scandal About Ivermectin Claims about the drug are based on shoddy science—but that science is entirely unremarkable in its shoddiness.

 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/ivermectin-research-problems/620473/

Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.

I try to post items of interest that are extraordinarily important, thorough and interesting. This one happens to be mind-blowing!

https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/

How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity

 https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/13/how-a-fatally-tragically-flawed-paradigm-has-derailed-the-science-of-obesity/

Everything You Didn’t Know About the Trusty Tape Measure

 https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/tape-measure-guide/

Why We Can’t Shake Ambergris: The odd, enduring appeal of a scarce commodity few people use and no one really needs.

 https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/why-we-cant-shake-ambergris/

The Pain Was Unbearable. So Why Did Doctors Turn Her Away?: A sweeping drug addiction risk algorithm has become central to how the US handles the opioid crisis. It may only be making the crisis worse.

 https://www.wired.com/story/opioid-drug-addiction-algorithm-chronic-pain/

THE CALIFORNIA DREAM IS DYING: The once-dynamic state is closing the door on economic opportunity.

 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/california-dream-dying/619509/

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE AMAZON MYSTERY SEEDS: Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?

 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/unsolicited-seeds-china-brushing/619417/

Opinion: The trouble with claiming 1 in 5 Latter-day Saints is nonheterosexual

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2021/6/28/22554177/the-trouble-with-claiming-1-in-5-latter-day-saints-is-non-heterosexual-mormon-lgbtq

Living with a short sleep gene: 'It's a gift'

 https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/22/health/short-sleep-gene-wellness-scn/index.html

One of the brothers, Elder Paul V. Johnson, is an official in my Church and has been serving since 2005.

Perspective: Modern motherhood has a major PR problem: Talking about the joys of parenthood isn’t just some slick spin to get people to produce more human capital. It’s the truth.

https://www.deseret.com/2021/6/11/22528243/culture-winning-the-smear-campaign-against-pro-family-parenting-social-media-motherhood

4 science-backed ways to identify and stop negative self-talk

 https://www.fastcompany.com/90645945/4-science-backed-ways-to-identify-and-stop-negative-self-talk

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

 https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/

They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.

 https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/

The secret to a lasting marriage? Maybe start with a big, cheap church wedding

 https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/12/22372416/the-secret-to-a-lasting-marriage-a-big-cheap-church-wedding-online-ordination-elopement-las-vegas

The surprising truth about which men do the most chores: A study by University of Utah researchers debunks stereotype of what type of men do the most domestic chores

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2021/1/11/22219373/religious-men-and-secular-men-housework-christian-catholic-muslim-jewish-utah-social-compass

Designers and Statisticians Disagree On What Makes a Good Information Graphic

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/designers-and-statisticians-disagree-on-what-makes-a-good-information-graphic

Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene: Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/

The self-silencing majority: In red America and blue America, an epidemic of self-censorship is threatening democracy

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2021/3/2/22309605/the-silenced-majority-bari-weiss-new-york-times-cancel-culture-free-speech-democrat-republican

The joy of the big, messy family: These couples are embracing more children than is typical. Here’s why

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2021/3/1/22303240/the-joy-of-the-big-messy-family-jim-gaffigan-catholic-mormon-kids