The Nature Fix

there was surprisingly little scientific investigation of awe, despite the fact that it’s considered one ...

lottery tickets, telling them they were free to give some away to people who didn’t get any. The r ...

DARWIN CONSIDERED empathy or compassion to be our strongest instinct, one that launched the success of the human ...

results. In accordance with his overall study data, my heart rate did decline while viewing the monitor. ...

a vastness of skill or might and are wise to cloak themselves with the trappings of status and an air ...

The fact that a discussion on awe finds itself circling back—like so many discussions—to our technology, ma ...

10 Water on the Brain “Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked s ...

The first American veteran on Idaho’s main stem of the Salmon River was Captain William Clark. He and Lewis ...

followed, braving the rough terrain to stake mining claims downstream. True to its cognomen as the River of N ...

rowing, and paddleboarding (nonmandatory), participate in “processing” groups and team-building activities (mandatory), ...

find some new ones, along with new friends who had been through what she’d been through. Carla Garcia, ...

shrapnel near Fallujah, then catapulted by a car bomb along her convoy route and finally struck by piec ...

EVERY BIG WAR has its signature wounds. If the Civil War didn’t kill you, you were likely to end up with amp ...

disorders. They are two to four times more likely than other women to be homeless; men have more p ...

temperature rises. Your gut begins to tighten. In small doses like this, the adrenaline rush is fun. Yo ...

madeleines and the writers who write about them. At its root, PTSD is a memory disorder. Brain scans of pe ...

couldn’t walk for a year. She seemed fragile. When a rapid spat Anderson out of her inflatable boat ...

When Herrera flipped, she even had the presence of mind to salvage her combat-medal-bedecked Gilligan hat. ...

truck they nicknamed the Maxi Pad. Then someone asked me why I wanted to write about breasts, the to ...

about outdoor sports. “I can’t say I’m passionate for any length of time, but I do believe I’m passionate about t ...