Harvest Guilt

On my way home from work today I passed through the center of Northampton. For once I didn’t notice the reading on the Silverscape sign: -90. I’m not sure if it’s Fahrenheit or Celsius. I’m hoping Fahrenheit because that’s a lot warmer...
Wellness: Fading Scars

Wellness: Fading Scars

One of my earliest memories is of visiting my Aunt Karen in the hospital shortly before we lost her to breast cancer. I was too little to remember much, but I remember thinking that in her mid-30s my aunt was too young to die—dying was for old people. Earlier...

Smart Apps vs. Obamacare

Health care costs in the U.S. have been rising so steadily for so long that containment barely seems possible. Even optimists don’t dream of cutting the price tag. As its official name—the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—suggests,...

From Our Readers

Take a Number   Thanks for Tom Vannah’s article about how tough it was to understand a math textbook statement about the relationship between an independent change and a dependent variable change (“A Textbook Case of Math Disability,” Sept. 25)....