A Quick OverviewDr. Ingrid Honkala, a marine biologist and oceanographer with NASA and naval research ties, clinically died three times – at ages two, 25, and 52 – and each time, she reports entering the same profound state: a radiant, living light filled with unconditional peace, dissolution of the sense of self, and an overwhelming...
Around 200 million adults worldwide use statins, making them one of the most prescribed drug classes on the planet. If you or someone you care about takes one of these cholesterol-lowering medications, you’ve probably heard a story or two about side effects. Maybe a friend quit their prescription after developing muscle aches. Maybe you’ve read...
What separates someone who changes an industry from someone who simply works hard within one? Ask a dozen business professors and you’ll get a dozen different answers. Resilience. Vision. Risk tolerance. Raw intelligence. But a neuroscientist looking at the habits of some of history’s most accomplished minds keeps arriving at the same unexpected answer, and...
Most people making plans for their 50s are thinking about retirement accounts, cholesterol panels, and whether it’s too late to pick up a new hobby. The to-do list for staying healthy in midlife tends to look the same: exercise more, eat better, get regular check-ups, lose the extra weight. Those things matter. But according to...
There are moments in American political life when the most consequential things get said not before committees or at press conferences, but on a late-night television stage. On a Tuesday evening in early May 2026, former President Barack Obama sat down with Stephen Colbert for one of the final broadcasts of a show that has,...
Most people living with high blood pressure have heard the same short list of causes: too much salt, too little exercise, weight gain, stress. Those factors are real, and managing them matters. But for a substantial portion of people, even doing everything right – eating well, taking prescribed medications, cutting sodium – the numbers on...
Every year, researchers crunch the data and map out where Americans are struggling most with weight – and the results aren’t random. The same states appear at the top of the list, year after year. Some of them are states you might expect. Others might surprise you. And when you look closely at the reasons...
There are stories that make you stop mid-scroll and just sit for a moment. Rocky Dennis is one of them. Born in California in the early 1960s, he faced a medical reality so rare that most doctors had never encountered it, and a physical appearance so striking that strangers would sometimes cross the street to...
There is a moment most of us recognize but rarely discuss: the slow shuffle of a parent crossing a parking lot, or the way an older friend hesitates before stepping off a curb. We tend to file it under “getting older” and move on. But a growing body of research is asking whether that ordinary...
Somewhere between buying organic, reading nutrition labels, and swapping chips for something that sounds virtuous, a sneaky pattern emerges. You’re eating foods that feel genuinely healthy. You track your steps, you skip dessert, you reach for the granola bar instead of the cookie. And yet the scale creeps in a direction you didn’t plan for....
There are artists who go quiet when life gets hard, and there are artists who pick up a camera and talk straight to the people who love them. Dolly Parton, at 80 years old and in the middle of one of the most difficult stretches of her life, is firmly in the second category. On...
Think about how much personal data you carry around in your head without effort. Your childhood phone number. The street address you grew up on. Your best friend’s birthday. These are pieces of trivia that exist in your memory simply because you’ve repeated them, heard them, or cared about them enough to retain them. Now...
