Carpe diem meaning: not quite “seize the day.” Horace’s Latin verb means to pluck, like ripe fruit, and the poem was written to calm a worrier. Here is why.
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Coffee and Stress: Decaf Lowered It Too, a Study Found
Coffee and stress: in a small blinded study, decaf eased stress and low mood just like regular coffee. Here is what was found, and the limits of the finding.
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What Is Nostalgia? It Started Out as a Disease in 1688
What is nostalgia? A bittersweet longing for your own past. The word was invented in 1688 as the name of a disease. Here is what changed, and what it is for.
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Kairos Meaning: The First Word Jesus Says About Time
Kairos meaning: the Greek word for the right moment. See how the Bible really uses it, and why the first words of Jesus in Mark say the moment has come.
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Serendipity Meaning: The Half of the Word We Forgot
Serendipity meaning: a happy find you weren’t looking for. But the man who coined the word in 1754 said it takes two things, and most of us forgot the second.
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One CRISPR Dose Cut Bad Cholesterol in Half for a Year
A single CRISPR cholesterol treatment kept bad cholesterol about 50% lower a full year later. What the 15-person trial found, and what it cannot tell us yet.
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Sisu Meaning: The Finnish Strength for When You’re Empty
Sisu meaning: the Finnish word for the strength that shows up after you think you’re done, where it came from, and the warning its own researcher gives.
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Sehnsucht Meaning: The Longing C.S. Lewis Couldn’t Shake
Sehnsucht meaning: the German word for a deep longing you can’t name. Why it comes from “sick,” not “search,” and how it led C.S. Lewis out of atheism.
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Weltschmerz Meaning: Why You Ache Over the State of the World
Weltschmerz meaning: the German word for the ache of knowing the world isn’t what it should be. Who coined it, the grief behind it, and what it tells you.
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Eudaimonia Meaning: Aristotle’s Flourishing Life, and Who He Left Out
Eudaimonia meaning: Aristotle’s word for a flourishing life. What it asked of you, who it quietly left out, and the grief he said no good life could survive.