Currently Creasing: Week of December 23
Here’s what our team has for you to bookmark & read this week
9 Delightful Tips for Living a Smarter Life in 2020: Small ideas that have big impacts.
A New Way To Quit? Psychedelic Therapy Offers Promise For Smoking Cessation: Researchers are studying a new technique for quitting cigarettes. It involves cognitive behavioral therapy and guided hallucination sparked by psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.
How to Flake Gracefully: An introvert’s guide to canceling without losing your friend.
Sheet masks are everywhere, but do they live up to the hype? Dermatologists see limited benefit and some drawbacks.
Alzheimer’s Tests Soon May Be Common. Should You Get One? Diagnostic tests for Alzheimer’s disease are already here. But the results may raise as many questions as they answer.
Meditations on the Nature of Beauty: Of all the songs written about how beautiful America is, my favorite is probably “America the Beautiful,” or “Love Shack.”
An Ode to Middle Age: Your body begins to betray you. You have neither the vitality of youth nor the license of old age. But being over the hill has its pleasures.
Electric brain stimulation could treat depression and addiction: Can zapping your brain really make you smarter?
Mother-daughter relationships can be rocky. Here’s how I strengthened mine. “It wasn’t until I moved across the country that it started to heal,” the author explains.
5 Weeknight Dinners: The Chicken to Crave.