Canadian researchers examined the brains of bird-watchers and found expertise could help cognitive health.

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We like to think we are the lead actors in our lives, but we’re often just reading lines from a shadow script written by our past selves.

When my daughter was born, it felt like my entire brain reorganized itself. I didn’t recognize the self I had been before I became a mother. The world was changed, and I felt raw inside of it.

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