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Your Thermometer Is Lying to You. And It Has Been Since 1851

Aug 19, 2026

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17 min read

Your Thermometer Is Lying to You. And It Has Been Since 1851

Here is a number worth questioning: 37°C. It is printed on thermometers, repeated in medical textbooks, and treated by doctors and patients alike as the definitive marker of a healthy human body. It is also, for a large proportion of modern adults, simply not accurate. Not even close.

David Richards
David Richards
Your Brain Might Not Be Done With You Yet

Aug 12, 2026

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11 min read

Your Brain Might Not Be Done With You Yet

A study out of the University of Cambridge is reshaping the way scientists think about brain development, and the number at the center of it is one that surprised me when I first read it. Thirty-two. That is roughly the age at which the brain appears to reach full maturity. Not eighteen. Not twenty-five. Thirty-two.

David Richards
David Richards
Why Women Feel Pain Longer: What a New Immune Discovery Could Change

Aug 5, 2026

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16 min read

Why Women Feel Pain Longer: What a New Immune Discovery Could Change

A study published in February 2026 in the journal Science Immunology by researchers at Michigan State University has, for the first time, identified a clear immunological mechanism behind the sex difference in pain duration. And it is not what most people would guess.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
The Brain That Never Learned to See And What It Tells Us About Mental Health

Jul 29, 2026

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14 min read

The Brain That Never Learned to See And What It Tells Us About Mental Health

Consider something that psychiatrists noticed more than 70 years ago, quietly at first, almost as a footnote. They were treating thousands of patients with schizophrenia and, across all those cases, something was conspicuously absent. Not one of those patients had been born blind. Not one.

David Richards
David Richards
Swedish Death Cleaning: The Responsible Art of Letting Go

Jul 22, 2026

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13 min read

Swedish Death Cleaning: The Responsible Art of Letting Go

It turns out the Swedish have a word for the alternative. They call it döstädning, death cleaning. I do not know if Swedes are renowned for being exceptionally literal, but a more palatable term would not have hurt. When you see the words Swedish Death Cleaning, you can read: next exciting stage of life decluttering. The name obscures what is actually a quiet and practical act of love.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
What If the Month You Were Born in Actually Made a Difference to Your Mental Health?

Jul 15, 2026

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20 min read

What If the Month You Were Born in Actually Made a Difference to Your Mental Health?

Here is something worth sitting with for a moment. The month you were born could have a small but measurable influence on your risk of developing a serious mental illness later in life.

David Richards
David Richards
The Quiet Revolution Inside Your Cells

Jul 8, 2026

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13 min read

The Quiet Revolution Inside Your Cells

But the more you look at what’s happening in labs right now, the harder it becomes to dismiss. Something real is taking shape. Something that might change how we think about aging altogether.

David Richards
David Richards
Brain Boosters vs. Brain Busters: The Role of Diet in Cognitive Function

Jul 3, 2026

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11 min read

Brain Boosters vs. Brain Busters: The Role of Diet in Cognitive Function

Cognitive decline is among the top health concerns for most older adults, and I count myself among them.

David Richards
David Richards
Could Kimchi Hold the Key to Flushing Plastic From Your Body?

Jul 1, 2026

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17 min read

Could Kimchi Hold the Key to Flushing Plastic From Your Body?

And here is the uncomfortable part: there are currently no reliable, practical strategies to remove nanoplastics from the human body once they've been absorbed. Until recently, that sentence had no "but."

David Richards
David Richards
Still Evolving: What Modern Life Is Doing to the Human Body

Jun 24, 2026

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17 min read

Still Evolving: What Modern Life Is Doing to the Human Body

We are still evolving, just not in the way we tend to picture it. There’s no obvious transformation unfolding in front of us. It’s more subtle than that, shaped by the environments we live in and, just as much, by the ones we’ve created without paying much attention.

David Richards
David Richards
Could Full-Fat Cheese Protect Your Brain? The Surprising Link Between Dairy and Dementia Risk

Jun 17, 2026

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11 min read

Could Full-Fat Cheese Protect Your Brain? The Surprising Link Between Dairy and Dementia Risk

Cheese, often seen as an indulgence, may actually offer a small cognitive advantage.

David Richards
David Richards
The Bacteria Behind Your Brain

Jun 10, 2026

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12 min read

The Bacteria Behind Your Brain

What they found was not subtle. Mice given human or squirrel monkey microbes began expressing brain genes in patterns that looked distinctly more human-like. Specifically, genes tied to energy production became more active.

David Richards
David Richards
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