Is Retirement a Brain Health Plan?
Retirement is supposed to be the reward. You worked, you saved, you finally get your time back. And for plenty of people, it is a relief. No alarm. No commute. No meetings that should have been emails. But I’ve wondered about the part we tend to skip over: if work has...
Should You Talk to Strangers?
Most of us have absorbed a rule about public life: leave strangers alone. It’s not an irrational rule. People are busy. Some want privacy. Some situations are plainly not safe or appropriate for conversation. And no one needs another person treating a train ride,...
Do Couples Need Matching Bedtimes?
There’s a particular kind of relationship advice that sounds so obvious we rarely stop to inspect it: couples should go to bed at the same time. Not simply sleep in the same bed. Go to bed together. Lights out, ideally. Anything else can get framed as a small...
Can Hearing Aids Protect Your Thinking?
We tend to put hearing in its own little box. You hear well, or you don’t. If you don’t, there are devices that make things louder. End of story. But hearing is not just about volume. It is how we follow a joke across a crowded dinner table, catch a quiet aside in a...