Health and Psychology
Human body and mind: medicine, mental health, neuroscience, ADHD, and everyday psychology.
#5592: Two Firewalls, One Relationship: Healing While the Threat Continues
What happens when trauma recovery assumes the danger is over — but one relationship still requires the armor?
#5591: Chronic PTSD: The Diagnosis That Doesn't Exist
Chronic PTSD isn't in the DSM. Complex PTSD is in the ICD-11. Continuous traumatic stress is in neither. What happens to patients in between?
#5589: Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome: What Cheap Power Tools Cost
Cheap power tools changed construction — and quietly introduced a disease that damages nerves and blood vessels in the hands. Here's what HAVS actu...
#5587: 10 Jobs That Break the Human Body, Ranked
A desk worker burns 2 METs. A wildland firefighter burns 6,000 calories a day. We rank the ten most physically gruelling jobs on Earth.
#5585: The Lighthouse Keeper and the Serbian Cabin
A YouTube video from rural Serbia broke one listener's whole model of what a hermit is. Turns out the anchorite image is a thousand years out of date.
#5584: What Happens When Isolation Isn't Chosen
Chosen solitude and forced isolation damage the body differently — and the science shows the damage isn't a one-way door.
#5578: Resilience Isn't a Muscle — What the Research Actually Shows
Two-thirds of people bounce back from major trauma by default. So why does "build resilience like a muscle" miss the point?
#5569: Measuring Democracy Beyond Voter Turnout
Voter turnout is one reading from one instrument. What else tells us whether a democracy is actually engaged?
#5560: What's Really in That Paint Can?
Water-based paint still off-gasses for weeks. Here's what's in the can, and the one free lever that actually matters.
#5551: Why Learning Makes Us Happier at Any Age
The credential isn't what makes learning feel good — choosing it is. What the research says about self-directed learning, aging, and hard times.
#5543: Why Clutter Overwhelms the ADHD Brain
Four hidden taxes clutter levies on your brain — and why the same messy room lands so differently on ADHD.
#5542: Why Parenting Exhaustion Doesn't Reset Overnight
Small tasks, big depletion: why the parental to-do list never clocks out, and how micro-breaks can help when a full day off isn't coming.
#5540: Why Your Trackpad Clicks Stopped Working
Your trackpad surface works but the clicks don't? That's not a trackpad failure — it's a swollen battery pushing the click plate out of reach.
#5521: Old Laptops as Home Servers: A Field Guide
That dead-battery laptop in your drawer can still serve. Here's the whole playbook — headless Linux, thermals, and the battery question nobody agre...
#5518: Task-Based Organization: What ER Carts Teach Home Workshops
Daniel's 64-tray parts box mirrors urgent care triage. The medical literature on task-based package organization has real numbers — and real disagr...
#5489: When Your Toddler Swallows a Screw
A screw and a washer from the same drawer are two different emergencies. Here's the triage protocol for the sixty seconds after the double take.
#5475: Why Salad Is Breakfast in Israel and Punishment in America
Same chopped tomatoes and cucumbers — a morning staple in Israel and Turkey, a symbol of joyless dieting in America. How did one dish mean two oppo...
#5474: Why Tardive Dyskinesia Becomes Permanent
One in five antipsychotic patients develops TD. Why does it stick around after the drug stops — and how much do newer drugs help?
#5470: What a Hot Bath Actually Does for You
A friend's "you're stewing in your own dirt" comment ruined baths for Daniel for years. Here's what the research actually says.
#5468: Why Nobody Stops the Candy Bin Grazers
A hand, a mouth, forward motion: what open-bin snacking at Mahane Yehuda reveals about norms nobody enforces anymore.