Reader's Digest US - September 2022

In this issue

SO THAT’S WHY WE SAY THAT!*
Fun facts about the language that’s been confounding speakers for centuries: English.
by Brandon Specktor

The Placebo Cure
Why doctors are prescribing sugar pills instead of the real thing.
by Lia Grainger

A Gem of a Proposal

CHRISTIAN LIDEN WAS in eighth grade when he hatched a grandiose plan to create a personalized engagement ring for his future fiancée. Never mind that he didn't have a girlfriend. If a natural diamond could take billions of years to form, he figured he could be patient.

2 mins

Learn a Language as an Adult

Contrary to conventional thinking, it isn't too late

4 mins

Bubble Tea Blows Up

WHEN BUBBLE TEA was first introduced to the United States about 30 years ago, you could get it only in mom-and-pop shops in big-city Chinatown and Koreatown. Now it's popping up in cafés around the country; Baskin-Robbins even offered a version this spring and summer.

2 mins

A Celebration of 100th Birthdays

A Celebration of 100th Birthdays

3 mins

Beyond Burnout

What to do when (or ideally, before) stress reaches epic proportions

4 mins

MIND OVER MIGRAINE

A German study of migraine sufferers found that weekly sessions of mindfulnessbased cognitive therapy reduced the frequency of their headaches by 40 percent.

2 mins

SO THAT'S WHY WE SAY THAT

Fun facts about the language that's been confounding speakers for centuries: English

10 mins

What I'm Currently Reading

Classics? Self-help books? Not for this Reader's Digest editor.

3 mins

The ENDURING DELIGHT of the DICTIONARY

Every unknown word is a solvable mystery

3 mins

THE PLACEBO CURE

WHY DOCTORS ARE PRESCRIBING SUGAR PILLS INSTEAD OF THE REAL THING

6 mins

THE GREAT 9/11 MARITIME RESCUE

We've read about so many heroes of that fateful day, yet somehow this mission-the largest of its kind in history-remains largely unknown

7 mins

My Southern Accent, Lost and Found

For years, I denied this part of myself, until I realized what I was missing

7 mins

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