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In the 19th century, scientists conducted dissections on live animals to study their living anatomy. Known ...

In 2016, David Sax wrote a book called The Revenge of Analog, which made the case that even as we marched ...

Over the years, I've tried to implement various morning and evening routines. The goal of these ...

You've heard of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. But did you know that its author, ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower started smoking cigarettes in his junior year at West Point. He would soon begin ...

When Kate was growing up, her grandfather often told her that when he was serving on a Navy ship during ...

Once you know someone's political party, you can probably guess all kinds of other things about them: the ...

In the 80s and 90s, few sports stars loomed as large as Bo Jackson. A Kansas City ...

There are two parts of the mind: the conscious and the unconscious. While the former dominates your ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...

You probably brushed your teeth this morning. And will do so tonight. And 730 more times in the year to ...

A lot of people feel dissatisfied about how they spend their time. They often feel busy, but that busyness ...

To reach your desk lamp, the electricity that’s made at a generating station must travel along ...

As long as humans have existed, we've had to choose between our lower and higher desires — between what ...

You may have heard that life is not a dress rehearsal. That you can't wait for your "real life" to ...

"Don't be a quitter!" "Quitters never win, and winners never quit!"   These maxims ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans thought a lot about what it means to live a virtuous life. They believed ...

A year and two months after his wife died, Ralph Waldo Emerson opened her tomb.  Emerson had been ...

In the world of sports, when a star player leaves his team for another franchise, hometown fans often feel ...

In one of the emails Oliver Burkeman, author of Time Management for Mortals, sent out to his subscribers, ...