What’s the Minimum Dose of Training to Stay Fit?
A new review assesses what it takes to maintain endurance and strength when circumstances interfere with your usual training
Why We Procrastinate
We think of our future selves as strangers.
Reasons People Are Moving From Los Angeles to Dallas
More Important Than Escaping Higher Taxes
The Ultimate Guide to Bizarre Lies Your Mom Told You
Turns out mothers all over the world are telling a lot of the same outrageous fibs.

How Our Brains Work: A Reading List for Non-Scientists
Your brain is more complex than you probably realize. Let neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett expand your mind.
The fence is uncomfortable, but it affords the best view
To be human … means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions.
– Stephen Fry, Bafta Lecture, 2010
A Kansas Bookshop’s Fight with Amazon Is About More Than the Price of Books
The owner of the Raven bookstore, in Lawrence, wants to tell you about all the ways that the e-commerce giant is hurting American downtowns.
I read the piece about why Californians are moving to Dallas. It was a little too positive for my taste, but then I found out why. The author is a Dallas realtor. Sheesh.
Yes, I am an advocate for Dallas – really like the place – but understand propaganda when I read it. I work with a lot of folks from LA – pre-covid when they would visit all they would say is “How much is that house?” as we drove around.