Tired all the time but blood tests normal? One review of people who asked a doctor about tiredness found serious disease in only about 4 in 100 of them.
Why Do I Keep Making the Same Mistake Over and Over?
Why do I keep making the same mistake? Usually because it never felt like a mistake at the time. Here is the moment to watch for, and what to do instead.
How a Deep-Sea Microbe Survives Heat Near Boiling Point
A deep-sea microbe builds a protein still intact at 98 °C. The near-boiling record is 20 years old — what is new is the first close-up look at the machine.
“No Man Ever Steps in the Same River Twice”: The Real Line
No man ever steps in the same river twice — but Heraclitus’s one genuine river fragment says the river stays the same. Plato sharpened it. Plutarch added the man.
Blindness by Saramago Meaning: The One Who Can See
In Blindness, José Saramago gives one woman her sight while a whole city loses theirs, and treats it as a job rather than a rescue. What the novel actually means.
4 Warning Signs a Hurricane Is About to Strengthen Fast
NOAA Hurricane Hunters flew 28 seasons of storms. The signs a hurricane is about to strengthen show up about a day early — and here is what they look like.
Number 4 Meaning in the Bible: A Map, Not a Message
Number 4 meaning in the Bible is not luck or a private sign. Four rivers, four winds, four corners, four Gospels: Scripture uses four to mean everywhere.
Pluribus and Consent: Why Carol Won’t Join the Hive Mind
Pluribus and consent: the Others offer Carol perfect happiness and wait for her yes. By the season finale, they have found a way around needing it at all.
How to Forgive Yourself When It Keeps Not Working
How to forgive yourself, and why it keeps not working: you are the judge, the defendant and the only witness in one room. Here is what actually moves it.
Rare Earth Elements in Coal Ash: $8.4 Billion in Waste
Rare earth elements in coal ash may be worth $8.4 billion. But the richest ash gives up the least, and that strange gap is the real story behind the numbers.