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What would a person in Revolutionary America sound like? Early letters, documents, and diaries help us listen in.

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When seniors seem like they're "losing it," depression, not dementia, may be at play. Listening to and empathizing with ...

Most of us are not bad at silence, we are out of shape with it. Why being alone with your own thoughts feels like a threat, ...

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Now, new research suggests a startling connection between early exposure to a common plastic and later development of ...