Fiona Geiran
Stories
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What happens when Black women start walking en masse?
Black women are dying from preventable, obesity-related diseases, more than any other group in the U.S. GirlTrek co-founder Vanessa Garrison is asking Black women to take one immediate step: to walk.
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What are animals saying to each other? AI can help us eavesdrop
From a bat's shrill speech to a peacock's mating call, environmental researcher Karen Bakker studied the sounds of nature. She wrote extensively on how AI can help translate these conversations.
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Instead of chasing happiness, build deeper meaning into your life
Author Emily Esfahani Smith researched psychology, neuroscience and philosophy to understand what makes us happy. She says we should build meaningful lives rather than follow the whims of happiness.
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Want to live to 100? Here are the 'Blue Zone' principles you should follow
Dan Buettner is an expert on 'Blue Zones' — places around the world where the environment may facilitate longer lives. He shares how we can carry the principles of Blue Zones into our own lives.
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Who belongs in America? An undocumented journalist tells his story
At 16, Jose Antonio Vargas learned he was living in the U.S. illegally. As an adult, Vargas came out as undocumented and dedicated his career to broadening the idea of who belongs in America.
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The best spark of creativity? Letting go and simply observing
It can be daunting to come up with an original idea. Poet Sarah Kay shares how the simple act of observing the world around us can open our minds to a universe of inspiration and creativity.
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Arts & Life
Take your date to the grocery store
Cancel your dinner reservations and grab a cart. You'll get to know your date better wandering through a supermarket. Because what could be more wonderful than regular love?
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Want to spend more time with family? Expand your definition of ... family
We often resolve to spend time with family. A.J. Jacobs may have found one solution: treat everyone like family. He says genealogy platforms have linked him to family trees with millions of cousins.
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Science
Jennifer Vail: How tribology can change the way you view the material world
Have you brushed your teeth today? Or gotten a shot recently? As tribologist Jennifer Vail explains, these mundane activities are among the many in our daily lives that are made possible by friction.
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Environment
Gay Gordon-Byrne: Why do big manufacturers prevent you from repairing your own stuff?
Manufacturers intentionally make their products hard to fix. Right-to-repair advocate Gay Gordon-Byrne fights for laws to stop companies from monopolizing repairs and let people fix their own stuff.