- How to keep your brain young
Daily Edition • October 25, 2025 SUPPORTED BY How are you at Twister? Sorry if that’s a personal question, but this is a story about flexibility, and its underrated role in contributing to overall well-being. Enter: Yoga. “In many yoga styles, there’s movement or flow between the postures, some of which themselves are dynamic,” kinesiology professor Jessica Matthews told Popular Science, explaining that the practice is good for “moving the joints through a functional range of motion at…Read more
- Nature vs. nurture: aging edition
Daily Edition • February 22, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Today is World Thinking Day — “a day of international friendship and a time to stand up for causes that could improve the lives of girls around the globe,” per the Girl Scouts. The global organization offers resources and activity guides for the occasion, prompting scouts to recognize the power of their thoughts. We’ll also take this opportunity to remind you that Girl Scout Cookies are currently available for sale (and home shipping!). Must...
- A mother’s love, seen from underwater
Daily Edition • February 21, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Hundreds of thousands of people have been memorialized in The New York Times obituary section — people who left a mark on society. But one of the paper’s obituary editors, Amy Padnani, noticed a few years ago that some of history’s trailblazers had been left out, namely many women and people of color. So in 2018, she launched “Overlooked,” a series of obituaries honoring “remarkable people” whose deaths went unreported. Learn more about the...
- Meet a new (and fuzzy) sunflower species
Daily Edition • February 20, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Getting in a good nap isn’t rocket science — or maybe it is. Using data from long-haul space crews, NASA researchers found that those who napped for around 26 minutes showed improved alertness and performance compared to those who didn’t. That may sound quite short, but there’s science backing up the so-called “NASA nap.” Cassie Hilditch, with NASA’s Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory, explained to Good Housekeeping that with a brief afternoon...