Psychology says people who sleep in the same bed as their pets aren’t necessarily anxious or over-attached — pets can become genuine attachment figures,...
Sharing the Bed with Pets: More Than Just a Quirky Habit
Somewhere between the pillow and the edge of the mattress, a nightly negotiation over...
A meaningful life isn’t a checklist you finish by 70, and the research shows what it really rests on
Why Life’s Meaning Isn’t a Checklist to Complete by Seventy
As people reach a certain age, especially around seventy, the internet often floods with checklists...
In 1886 a club of Rockefellers, Morgans and Vanderbilts paid $125,000 for Jekyll Island off Georgia and kept it as a private winter retreat...
The Gilded Age’s Most Exclusive Playground
In 1904, Munsey’s Magazine conducted a survey of the private playgrounds of America’s wealthiest elite and crowned Jekyll Island...
Psychology says people who accumulate five or six nicknames for a single pet aren’t eccentric or overly attached — they’re using the same kind...
Why Calling Your Dog Sir Wigglebottom Is More Normal Than You Think
Somewhere right now, a grown adult is standing in a kitchen addressing a...
The colonists who settled the Giant Forest in 1886 renamed the largest tree on earth the Karl Marx Tree because they objected to what...
The Untold Story of the General Sherman Tree: From Karl Marx to Conservation Icon
Every year, approximately two million visitors tread the paved path through...