2+ hour, 24+ min ago   (473+ words) - Adam Jacot de Boinod “And why not? What thinking species wouldn't be amazed at the idea of new people simply appearing as if from thin air?” These traditions have sought to explain conception, influence the sex or health of the…...

2+ hour, 24+ min ago   (493+ words) What does this mean for our world? Sickness has implications far beyond health, for the individual, family and community, says historian Susan Wise Bauer (below). In her new book, The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago   (422+ words) In reality, the decade can bring a convergence of expectations: building a career, managing finances and housing, getting married and raising children, and increasingly, caring for ageing parents. People in their 30s may feel a gap between where society expects them…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago   (406+ words) Indonesia has intensified efforts to fight wildfires with cloud seeding and water bombing as thousands of people countrywide battle to breathe amid the smoke and haze, officials said on Aug 28. More than five million people on Borneo and Sumatra islands…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago   (571+ words) He scoured medical journals as a nursing student before learning it’s genetic Former nurse Tim (not his real name) could never recall anything from more than two days ago. Neither could he plan anything more than two days ahead. This…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago   (514+ words) The night before, the 29-year-old had told his mother he was hungry. He had barely been eating and lost about 10kg from not having an appetite. So she was glad when he asked for the dish. The mother and son had…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago   (485+ words) ‘‘Excuse me, are you a psychiatrist?’’ I was walking along the park connector near my home, as I do most evenings. After hours of sitting in air-conditioned clinics, listening to the heavy, fractured narratives of human suffering, these walks are…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago   (540+ words) On a football field my friend Andy’s slide tackle was a thing of venomous beauty. In the mid-1980s he'd gallop towards strikers like one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, sliding through damp grass, cannoning into the ball, sweeping…...

13+ hour, 36+ min ago   (169+ words) Readers Have Strong Opinions About Seniors Smoking Weed | The Wall Street Journal - newspaper Magzter WSJ readers weighed in on the benefits of pot-smoking, the risks of today's high-potency weed and tips on how to avoid the issue of neighborly ire…...

13+ hour, 36+ min ago   (315+ words) Dementia Doesn’t Have to Be the End of Travel | The Wall Street Journal - newspaper Magzter GARY AND MEG Behle had traveled much of the world before he was diagnosed with dementia nine years ago, at age 75.“I didn’t…...