People who read books for as little as half an hour a day tend to live longer than…
Book readers in a large American study lived longer than non-readers, and the gap did not close when the researchers stripped out the usual explanations.
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An 80+ year Harvard study suggests that the strongest predictor of how happy and…
The Harvard Study of Adult Development, which began in 1938 is widely acknowledged as longest in-depth study of physical and mental wellbeing ever run on a group of adults.
People who spend a few minutes several times a week writing down what they’re…
A note on what follows: we are writers and editors reading the research, not clinicians or psychologists.
People who spend even short amounts of time outdoors in green space tend to show…
We are writers and editors reading the research, not clinicians or mental health professionals.
Why some people make a habit of helping others feel seen
We tend to assume the people who light up every room were simply born that way: naturally sunny, effortlessly confident, gifted with a warmth the rest of us can only envy.
Only some people produce urolithin A after pomegranate juice — and supplement…
An industry-funded study found that people vary in how much urolithin A they produce after pomegranate juice. Separate trials tested purified supplements, so they do not prove an anti-ageing benefit from eating pomegranate.
The Vjosa in southern Albania runs 270 kilometers from the Greek mountains to the…
The Vjosa in southern Albania runs 270 kilometres from the Pindus mountains to the Adriatic without a single dam on its main stem — the last free-flowing wild river in Europe outside Russia, and since March 2023 the continent's first national park built around one.
Why some people browse social media without posting
The population of people who use social media without posting is much larger than most active posters realise.
Ellen Langer later reported short-term changes in a small, unpublished 1979 ageing…
The Counterclockwise retreat involved eight men in each group and was never reported in a peer-reviewed methods-and-results paper, so its outcomes are not independently established.
A 2010 review of 148 studies linked stronger social relationships with better…
A meta-analysis of 308,849 participants linked social relationships with survival. Its comparison with smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily concerned social connection broadly, not chronic loneliness alone.
Why being near water can feel emotionally restorative
There is a particular feeling that arrives before the holiday has properly started.
Carl Jung argued we spend the first half of life building a mask and the second…
Carl Jung split a human life down the middle and gave each half a different job.