How Are You Feeling About Winter This Year?
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Although winter doesn’t officially begin until Dec. 21, it’s already cold in many places — and with the coronavirus pandemic still raging, many are dreading a season when we very likely won’t be able to gather safely…
After Home and School, Where Do You Find the Strongest Feeling of Community?
Have you heard of the idea of the “third place”? Think of it as the location you can be found most, after where you live and go to school, a place where you seek, and ideally find, community. What’s your third place? Is it possible to have a third place that is an online environment,…
Would You Want to Live a Life Without Ever Feeling Pain?
Imagine you could live your life without experiencing pain. Not quite as a superhero, you wouldn’t be super strong — you just wouldn’t feel any pain, physical or emotional. Ever. Would you choose that life? In “At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why.,” Heather Murphy writes: She’d been told that…
