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The roller coaster of losing health.Analyze the film zone of interest. A rare scammer. Calculation of love and genetics. He recalls a dark childhood. The first edition in 2024 includes all that and more. tom scocca | new york magazine | January 2, 2024 | 6,677 words It can sometimes feel like medical mystery stories are everywhere. Long new coronavirus. A rare disorder. New York Times' The very popular “Diagnosis” column. It's a genre unto itself, and we now know its beats: beginnings, setbacks, revelations, and endings. But Tom Scocca's own experience shows no such arc. From the moment he…

There is no one way to reduce all stress and worry, but there are ways to provide some relief. Science has discovered ways to help us relax and concentrate through gadgets that are ready to use and can be worn day and night. These gadgets only work if you use them consistently and allow your brain to calm down before you start feeling the effects. These gadgets are popular with many, as they combine science and meditation to provide ways to reduce stress levels, increase focus, and improve sleep quality. Working in the legal industry is known to increase stress…

Ray Knudson | Atavist Magazine | December 2023 | 1,950 words (7 minutes) This is an excerpt from the issue. 146, “Damages.” 1. *An asterisk indicates a pseudonym. Debra* wanted That her medical nightmare was over. In 2009, she was diagnosed with breast cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes. The disease was estrogen positive, which meant it was feeding on her reproductive hormones. After six months of chemotherapy and a double mastectomy, the cancer was declared in remission. To keep things going, doctors put Debra on tamoxifen, a hormone used to prevent certain types of breast cancer. She…

Fitness and health tracker.Future (via Getty Images) Happy new year! As fun as the holidays are, and we hope they were a lot of fun, New Year’s resolutions are even more necessary to get off to a strong start. Technology can help you with gadgets and accessories designed to inspire, encourage, and guide you. For example, some smartwatches can count your calories, measure your workouts, and alert you if your heart is beating unexpectedly hard. Smart wearables allow you to perform an ECG on your wrist and check your blood pressure in the background. Scales can also give you more…

Unlock Editor’s Digest for freeFT editor Roula Khalaf has chosen her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.Return to activitiesBackHug Chair, £4,150 or subscription from £89 per month, mybackhug.com © John Need MediaLow back pain is devastating for patients, drains national economies, and is worsening worldwide. BackHug inventor Chongsu Lee, a physical therapist and former Hyundai engineer, is well aware of the growing need for treatment. In fact, his inability to physically cope with providing manual physical therapy to a growing number of clients led directly to his invention.“Despite some serious symptoms, I had very good results, but the strain of…

Hello. Welcome to Stuff Awards 2023. Here we recognize the best technology seen over the year. And what better way to recognize that progress than with a gong? All praise its status as the pinnacle of the gadjeti crop. That concludes the announcement of this year’s award winners. The Stuff Awards 2023 culminated in the announcement of the top awards over the past few days. Our Gadget of the Year trophy is one of the most highly regarded trophies. Want to see who won? For posts in the latest winning categories, visit our Awards section or check out the links…

Get the Longreads Top 5 Email Kickstart your weekend by getting the week’s very best reads, hand-picked and introduced by Longreads editors, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning—and keep up with all our picks by subscribing to our daily update. All through December, we’ve been featuring Longreads’ Best of 2023. Today, we close out this year’s Best of Longreads package with a list of every story that was chosen as No. 5 in our weekly Top 5 email. Number five stories can be humorous and lighthearted or even poignant and unexpected—an antidote to the week that was. The entire…

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As 2023 draws to a close, let’s take a look back at the most viewed full-length novels of the past year. Top long reads of 2023 10. 5 predictions for fintech in 2023: After a terrible, terrible, no good, very bad year, what’s next? Irvin Abraham, partner at Goodwin Procter, said that although fintech is still in its adolescence, the opportunities for growth and value creation are huge. 9. Open Banking 2023: Global Review Finextra reporter Sehrish Alikhan looked at how different countries are approaching open banking and which countries are paving the way for open finance. 8. International Women’s…

When I was growing up “at-home aesthetic devices” meant one thing: Slendertone, the machine that promised a toned tummy via electrical stimulation and was used by sporting paragons such as Muhammad Ali and Franz Beckenbauer. My mum was a model and so had a cupboard containing exciting items such as impossible stilettos, crocodile-skin clutches, a set of heated hair rollers and an original Slendertone.On the days when I would get home from school to an empty flat, I would dig out the machine, which, with its beige Bakelite knobs and buttons, looked like something from the Thunderbirds set. I would…