If by Rudyard Kipling: what the poem means, the failed raider behind it, the son Kipling lost, and the line where he admitted the advice was easy to give.
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Death Anxiety: The Fear Hiding Under Your Other Fears
Death anxiety is more common than people admit, and it often hides under health worries and panic. What research shows, what it doesn’t, and what helps today.
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night: The Father Who Never Read It
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night was written for Dylan Thomas’s dying father, who never read it. The real story, what it means, and what it leaves out.
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What Is Anxious Attachment? Why Reassurance Never Lasts
What is anxious attachment? Needing constant reassurance and reading every pause as rejection. The original research shows why comfort fades, and what helps.
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Marjoe Gortner Dies at 82: The Child Preacher Who Confessed
Marjoe Gortner died at 82. Ordained at four, he let a film crew record his final revival tour, then told them it was an act. The film won an Oscar. His story.
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Chimpanzees Steal Less From Friends, but Look How Much They Still Take
Chimpanzees steal less from friends, a study of 26 chimps in Uganda found: 61% of trials versus 70%. Here is what that gap shows, and the part that surprised.
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Great Chicago Fire: The Cow Story Was Made Up. The Damage Wasn’t.
The Great Chicago Fire began October 8, 1871. The cow story came later, from a reporter who said he made it up. Chicago cleared the woman it blamed in 1997.
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Whalefall Movie: Inside the Whale, a Son Looks for His Dad
The Whalefall movie opens October 16: a young diver, a sperm whale and one hour of air. What the title really means, and the father at the heart of the story.
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World Teachers’ Day: The Title Jesus Said Fit Him
World Teachers’ Day is October 5. People called Jesus Teacher about forty times in the Gospels, and He said the name fit. See what He did with that title.
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Lena Martell Dies at 86: The Prayer That Hit Number One
Lena Martell has died at 86. Her 1979 number one, One Day at a Time, was a prayer written by a songwriter who had almost given up. Here is the story behind it.