Balance
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Evidence-minded writing on rest, health, and the Nordic approach to a good life.
- Aug 6, 2026 Yale researchers tracked 3,635 adults over 12 years and found that reading books By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 6, 2026 Being the funny one in the family often starts as a way to defuse tension, and it can take decades before that person… By The Balance
- Aug 6, 2026 Oxford researchers surveyed 150,000 people across 142 countries and found that sharing meals is as strong a predictor… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 6, 2026 Psychology says people who seem calm during every crisis aren’t always emotionally strong By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 6, 2026 I thought retirement would finally give me freedom, but three months in I discovered something I hadn't expected By Jeanette Brown
- Aug 6, 2026 Quote of the day by Carl Jung: "Where love rules, there is no will to power By Mal James
- Aug 6, 2026 How did a country keep homelessness near 0.08 per cent By Mal James
- Aug 5, 2026 Psychology suggests people who are nice on the surface but have no close friends often perfected the nice long before… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 5, 2026 The advice nobody packages as advice By Nato Lagidze
- Aug 5, 2026 I spent a year in New York before I understood why nobody smiles at you on the subway, but everybody will still help… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 5, 2026 A 2026 study of 1,834 people found a genuinely unusual personality is usually driven by extreme individual traits, but… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 The friendships that survive into someone's fifties tend to share one unglamorous quality By The Balance
- Aug 5, 2026 Psychology says people who often research self-improvement but rarely start may not be lazy By Brendan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 A psychologist at the University of Texas handed students a blank sheet of paper and fifteen minutes a day, four days… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 5, 2026 Psychology says people who apologize for things that aren't their fault aren't insecure, they're operating from a… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 A 1994 study found that when people looked back over years rather than days, regret over things they had not done… By Scandinavia Standard