Pocket’s Top-Saved Stories of the Week: December 2023

There is growing evidence that simple, everyday changes to our lives can alter our brains and change how they work. Melissa Hogenboom put her own brain in the scanner to find out.

How the cheap, kitschy new Chinese shopping site came from seemingly nowhere and is changing the way we shop.

There are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age.

We may look back on new weight-loss drugs as some of the greatest advances in the annals of chronic disease.

How to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist with others in society today.

It’s not COVID or the flu. If you’ve been sick for a few weeks and have tested negative for everything, here’s what’s going on.

You can say no to the tipping tablet. That doesn’t mean you should.

The world is a mess right now, but there are ways to cope.

Steamy, spiritual and stress-busting, there are more than 3m saunas in Finland. Not only are they skin tingling, they help people explore what it is to be human.

For decades, experts have said that less is more when it comes to dairy fat and health. But recent research has called this into question.

The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans.

It’s time to ban this phrase once and for all, argues this communications expert.

Everything seems profound on psychedelics. Scientists are starting to ask why.

Here are some rules for deciding whether a new social-science finding is really useful to you.

You won’t find a silver bullet in a single food, experts say, but there are some that may help you build the best defense.

The captivating stories that Pocket readers saved most last month, from the key to better studying to the surprising best place to find product reviews.