Here’s what to read the week of August 5, from the cost of chronic health problems to the truth about pain killer addiction • Photograph ℅ Sipa Press/Rex Features
How to Appreciate Food Without Being Culturally Appropriative
The dishes of America’s recent immigrants have become check marks on a cultural scavenger hunt for society’s elite, as Ruth Tam explains. Here’s how to appreciate rather than appropriate diversity in cuisine • Photograph ℅ Pinterest, source unknown
Currently Creasing: Week of July 29
Here’s what to read the week of July 29, from superbug E.coli strains in the gut to supporting a partner through their anxiety and the neuroscience of pain • Photograph of Nikki Giovanni ℅ Brain Pickings
5 Herbal Supplements to Build Bone
About 95% of our peak bone mass is present by age 20, and some overall gains in mass often continue until age 30. Here are herbs to supplement a healthy diet for stronger bones into later-adulthood • Photograph ℅ Paloma Wool
How the Dust in Your Home Can Affect Your Health
Professor & Director of Urban Health Gabriel Filippelli on how recent research uncovers the effect of environmental & chemical contaminants affect our health • Photograph ℅ Tria Giovan
The Troubling Necessity of Mercury Retrograde
When something, anything—a planet, a person, an animal, a couch—is behaving in a certain manner, we stop and take notice. As the planet of communication, intellect, logic, and translation, Mercury is begging us to take a look at how we communicate • Photograph ℅ Gemma Thérèse Pearce
Currently Creasing: Week of July 22
Here’s what to read the week of July 22, from the gut-Autism connexion to Black women’s maternal mortality rate in the U.K. • Photograph of Beyoncé ℅ Tyler Mitchell for Vogue
How to Choose the Best Probiotic for You
Your complete guide to understanding probiotics and choosing the right strain(s) for your specific needs • Photograph ℅ Seed
The Kosmic Kitchen's Herbed Corn & Feta Salad
Herbalists behind The Kosmic Kitchen share their sweet & cooling herbed salad . . .