When I moved from Brooklyn back to the Bay Area a few years ago, I thought, at first, that the apartment I found was charming. It’s also very small: At the end of a long driveway, inside a former garage, it’s 240 square feet, or roughly the size of one and a half parking spaces.

Half the world could soon face dangerous heat. We measured the daily toll it is already taking. ON A TREELESS STREET under a blazing sun, Abbas Abdul Karim, a welder with 25 years experience, labors over a metal bench. Everyone who lives in Basra, Iraq, reckons with intense heat, but for Abbas it is unrelenting. He must do his work during daylight hours to see the iron he deftly bends into swirls for stair railings or welds into door frames.

Salt Lake City's city council voted in favor of a project to build a small community known as the Other Side Village for people experiencing chronic homelessness.

Do you want to live a healthier and longer life? Lets go back to 1937, when Albert Szent-Györgyi won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of vitamin C, a massively consequential discovery, as it not only saved and extended countless lives, but it also contributed to the foundations of modern nutrition.

I have few memories of being four—a fact I find disconcerting now that I’m the father of a four-year-old. My son and I have great times together; lately, we’ve been building Lego versions of familiar places (the coffee shop, the bathroom) and perfecting the “flipperoo,” a move in which I hold his hands while he somersaults backward from my shoulders to the ground. But how much of our joyous life will he remember?

Credit Suisse released its 2021 Global Wealth Report this month, which estimates the wealth of households around the world.

Not everyone wants to talk about it.

Most people in the world hate their job, especially their boss, according to a 2019 global poll conducted by Gallup, the US analytics and consulting company. The statistic is staggering, but if you could put things into perspective, you would feel much better.

The study, conducted by researchers at National Institutes of Health, found that those who consumed two or more cups of tea a day had between a nine per cent and 13 per cent lower risk of mortality.

It can be challenging, but the rewards are enormous, and you don’t have to be rich to be an ocean voyager. By Sally Howard

Removing urine from wastewater and using it as fertilizer has the potential to decrease nutrient loading in water bodies and boost sustainability by making use of a common waste material. In excess, nitrogen and phosphorus in our waste streams can stimulate algal blooms and create conditions dangerous to marine and lake ecosystems and human health.

When you are facing stressful situations with another person, is it better for them to stay calm or be stressed out alongside you? Though it may seem intuitive that it is preferable for one party to remain calm, a study published in Frontiers in Psychology suggests that when the stress is validated, reactivity can decrease, but only for women.

Western culture today equates the pursuit of happiness with seeking out pleasure and comfort. But without the pursuit of experiences and goals that entail a certain degree of suffering, our lives would be meaningless, argues Paul Bloom in this interview.

One day, hopefully many, many years from now, you are going to die. Sometime after that, everyone who ever knew you, your family, friends, acquaintances and so on, will also die, until one day every trace of your existence will be wiped off the face of the earth.

Esta-America.com combed through over 100 online sources to determine which destinations around the world are at the top of people’s bucket lists. With travel slowly returning to normalcy following the pandemic, discover which cities and countries are likely to thrive with tourists once more.

While advocates called for a move to more livable communities, the experience in Canada has proven more halting, and less permanent, than in other countries

Men living in the United States are far sicker than men in similarly wealthy countries, a new report has found. Among other things, American men are more likely to die early from preventable causes than those living in 10 other countries, including Canada, Australia, and the UK. Financially struggling men also tended to be worse off in the U.S. than elsewhere.

We’ve been “productive” enough — produced way too much, in fact. And there is too much that urgently needs to be done.

The separate poverty guidelines for Alaska and Hawaii reflect Office of Economic Opportunity administrative practice beginning in the 1966-1970 period. Note that the poverty thresholds — the original version of the poverty measure — have never had separate figures for Alaska and Hawaii.

Do humans always want more, or are we sometimes just happy with our lot? This debate has long raged in multiple disciplines: economics, politics, and even philosophy. And whether an unlimited desire for more is inherent or a product of capitalism is equally hotly contested.