New job? Now it’s time to pick your health insurance
Your first day of work may feel a little like your first day of school. There's a lot to learn – from where to find the coffee machine to all your new coworkers’ names. One of your most important tasks might be picking a new health...
How to choose the right words when talking to your teen
Your teenage son comes home from school, mutters a few unintelligible words when you ask about his day and retreats to his room to play videogames. Your teenage daughter comes home from school, parks herself in the kitchen and unloads all her troubles in a...
How subscription medicine can benefit your patients–and grow your business
One day last fall, a patient texted Vance Lassey, M.D., while he was at church to say she thought she had a urinary tract infection (UTI). After discussing her symptoms and confirming her suspected diagnosis, Lassey, a Holton, KS, physician and president of...
Day is done
I’ve played the trumpet since I was 11, and I even majored in music in college. After I became a nun, in 1992, I played only at Christmas and Easter, and I missed playing more. Fortunately, about 10 years ago, I heard about Bugles Across American and signed...
Shared wisdom
Welcome to Scouting! You’re joining a force of volunteers a million strong, some who started in Scouting before you were born (see tip No. 38). Yet you may be uniquely qualified to have a powerfully positive impact on the young people in your unit (see tip...
An Eagle’s origin story
When they’re not busy saving the planet, superheroes offer a window into the human condition, says Sterling Gates, the Eagle Scout who writes DC’s The Adventures of Supergirl comic book series based on the Supergirl TV drama. Batman must deal with the...
Make it shine
Having your car professionally detailed can set you back several hundred dollars, especially if you pay someone to come to your home or office. However, you can get great results yourself for a fraction of the cost. If you’re like Costco member Mike...
Common values, uncommon rewards
Becca Calendo and Amelia Lorenz, housemates at Chicago's Hesed Community Cooperative, love molasses cookies. So last Christmas they used one of the group's three kitchens to whip up several batches of their favorite recipes. Then they enlisted the rest of the...
Antibiotic resistance: Toward better stewardship of a precious medical resource
Antibiotic resistance has emerged as one of the world’s deadliest health crises. The spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is threatening the effectiveness of last-resort treatments for life-threatening infections. Every year, 700,000 deaths (and...
Scouting magazine–Roundtable section
Dr. Bridget Walker makes her living scaring people, and she’s proud of it. A practitioner of cognitive behavioral therapy, she knows the best way to fight fear is to face it, as she describes in her new book, Anxiety Relief for Kids (New Harbinger...
Boy Scouts of America sustainability report
When I was a Boy Scout in the 1960s, we didn’t learn about recycling or climate change or sustainability. But we did learn to leave each campsite better than we found it, to leave nothing but footprints, and to take nothing but pictures. A half-century...
Faculty profile: Jackie Villadsen, Physics & Astronomy
Professor Jackie Villadsen, physics & astronomy, is helping to answer one of science's burning questions: Are there Earth-like planets in far-off solar systems? To find out, she and her research team are studying bursts of radio waves from stars like the red...
Adventure ahead!
The Cub Scout motto is “Do Your Best,” but maybe it should be “Embrace Change.” Since Cub Scouting began in 1930, the program has changed frequently. Age limits have dropped. Tigers have been introduced. Lions have gone extinct. The Webelos Scout...
The best health and home innovations from CES 2020
During CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January, more than 4,400 companies debuted some 20,000 tech products, everything from 8K TVs to foldable laptop computers to plant-based pork from the people who brought you the Impossible Burger. (Clearly, the show has grown...
Into the storm
The raging storm was spawning tornado after tornado. It was May 3, 1999, and Reed Timmer and three other college meteorology students watched beside Interstate 44 in Oklahoma while most of the tornadoes vanished as quickly as they formed. But then one...
The ticking time bomb: Ageing population
When Emma Morano died in Italy April 2017, she was the world’s oldest person. She was also the last link to the 19th century, having been born in November 1899. According to a BBC report, the 117-year-old woman’s life “not only spanned three centuries...