Health & Wellbeing
Medical topics, mental health, neuroscience, ADHD, neurodivergence, and wellness
#5087: Whose Voice Is That? Rewiring Your Self-Image
How to tell the difference between your own self-knowledge and a critical voice installed in childhood — and what actually works to renovate it.
#5086: How to Make Death Reflection Work Without the Terror
Spontaneous death reminders fade fast. Structured reflection changes how you live. Here's the science and the traditions that got it right.
#5083: The Shared Work of Teshuvah: Why Your Failures Aren't Unique
Why the Jewish New Year's framework for self-improvement mirrors psychology's most common regrets—and why shared struggle dissolves shame.
#5081: Babies Communicate Before Words — Here's the Science
Why "baba" might mean everything and nothing — and why your baby is already conversing with you.
#5077: Your Life as a Medical Encyclopedia: Decision Trees for Real Life
Building a searchable personal wiki with interactive flowcharts for parenting, household tasks, and the 2am fever moment.
#5076: How Memory Palaces and Key Bowls Actually Work
Why checklists fail at the exact moment you need them—and what works instead.
#5075: Monitoring a Warm Toddler Without Losing Your Mind
What to track when your kid feels warm but reads normal — and which apps help without becoming a second job.
#5074: Goals, ADHD, and the Art of the Soul Inventory
Why your goal tracking fails—and how to separate time-limited goals from lifelong values without the spreadsheet dread.
#5061: Why Plastic Vapor Triggers Asthma More Than Sawdust
An asthmatic engraver discovers plastic vapors trigger his airways while metal and wood dust barely register. Here's why—and how to test your own t...
#5031: Circadian Lighting: Sunset vs. Your Body Clock
Is your smart home's "red light before bed" actually synced to your biology? We dig into chronobiology, latitude, and lighting design.
#5029: How Much Tuna Is Actually Safe to Eat?
We break down the science of mercury in tuna, the real symptoms of toxicity, and whether canned fish can actually hurt you.
#5028: What 670nm Red Light Actually Does for Sleep
670nm is a badge, not a mechanism. Here's how to actually shop for a sleep light.
#5027: The 670nm Sleep Light Myth: What That Number Really Means
That "670nm" on your sleep light isn't about melatonin at all. It's about copper atoms in your mitochondria — and the dose is probably fictional.
#5023: The Three Machines Hiding in "Get a Small Vacuum
Dust, fume, and static are three different problems. One word — "vacuum" — can't solve them all.
#5010: Why Vegetables Beat Fruit and Supplements
Vegetables do things fruit and supplements can't — from gut microbiome diversity to triggering your body's own antioxidant systems.
#5009: How the Brussels Sprout Got a Makeover
The vegetable your grandmother served isn't the same one on your plate today. Here's why.
#5008: Why "Superfoods" Are Marketing, Not Science
The $200 billion superfood industry has no scientific definition. Here's what antioxidants actually do.
#4981: The Void That Doesn't Heal
Why the grief of not having supportive parents feels different — and what neuroscience reveals about it.
#4961: Can You Learn to Be Good at Small Talk?
Why "just be curious" fails anxious people — and what actually works for better conversations.
#4914: Why Aviation's Fatigue Rules Work
How aviation built a system that treats exhaustion as a design problem — and what other industries can learn from it.