Fatphobia Hurts Thin People TooIn 2020 more than 40 percent of Americans reported experiencing weight stigma, not only from friends and family members but also from their nurses and doctors.
‘Dad, I Don’t Think I’m Old Enough to Handle This’Those words were hard to hear. They were my daughter’s words of despair when she received the worst news of her life: The baby she was carrying suffered from grave defects.
How An Organ Transplant Can Change Your Entire PersonalityChanges in personality following a heart transplant have been noted pretty much ever since transplants began. In one case, a person who hated classical music developed a passion for the genre after receiving a musician’s heart. The recipient later died holding a violin case.
‘Despite appearances, I finally realise I am not able-bodied’: novelist Daisy Lafarge on her hypermobility disorderThe post hits the floor with a padded thud I recognise as a book delivery. Good – I’m relieved to have an excuse to leave my desk.
Psychedelics could treat some of the worst chronic pain in the worldDecades of citizen science are finally translating into clinical trials for psychedelic pain treatments. Here’s another strange and under-studied prospect of psychedelics: a world without severe chronic pain.
Insatiable: A Life Without EatingThis story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. At first, it was simply a roast chicken recipe. Then it was everything.
Found: the dial in the brain that controls the immune systemScientists have long known that the brain plays a part in the immune system — but how it does so has been a mystery. Now, scientists have identified cells in the brainstem that sense immune cues from the periphery of the body and act as master regulators of the body’s inflammatory response.
ChatGPT’s new face is a black holeOpenAI just announced a few updates to its flagship conversational AI model, ChatGPT, and among them is a new app and interface, starring the system’s new user-facing personality: a giant black dot. To that end, the new interface is a dot, or hole, or circle — however you choose to perceive it.
Why Running Slower Isn’t Always the AnswerIf you’re a beginner runner, you’ve probably heard the advice that you’re running too fast and you need to slow the heck down. I’ve told you this. Our resident marathoner Meredith Dietz has told you this.
Jack Conroy and the Lost Era of Proletarian LiteratureIn the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers. Richard Wright called him the “old daddy of rebel writing,” but Jack Conroy was most often known by the nickname “the Sage of Moberly.
Passan: The five biggest takeaways from Statcast's swing tracking dataMajor League Baseball publicly released a trove of bat-tracking data today that offers fascinating insights into what makes the best hitters good -- and the worst bad.
8 Ways to Stay Hydrated If You Hate Drinking WaterFor all the hype surrounding status water bottles—looking at you, Stanley and Owala—it turns out many of us aren’t drinking nearly enough H2O. “It’s a struggle,” says Vanessa King, a registered dietitian nutritionist with Queen’s Health System in Oahu, Hawaii.
What’s Even The Point Of Xbox Game Pass Now?On May 7, Microsoft closed down four first-party development studios it had acquired from Zenimax Media in 2021 including Tango Gameworks, developer of The Evil Within series and 2023’s surprise hit Hi-Fi Rush.
Chinese virologist who was first to share COVID genome sleeps on street after lab shutsThe first person to publicly release the genome sequence of the virus that causes COVID-19 — virologist Zhang Yongzhen — appears to have resolved a public dispute with the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center (SPHCC), Fudan University, that erupted last week.
No, We Aren’t All Eating “Too Much” ProteinIf you’ll permit me a rant—I promise to make it fact-filled and interesting—I am sick of the articles that seem to pop up every few months claiming that we are all eating “too much” protein.