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Beyond Burnout
What to do when (or ideally, before) stress reaches epic proportions
Reduce-a-What?
Eating a little less of certain foods can do a lot of good
13 THINGS High-Flying Facts About Air Travel
A New DIY Nightmare
Pepitas Pack a Punch
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
We Found a FIX
HELP, HACKS & HOW TO
The Appalachian Apple Hunter
Thousands of varieties of our favorite fruit have nearly died out. One man is trying to bring them back.
THE REUSE KING
If you happen to be sitting on 8,000 lengths of blue rope or a few dozen 26-foot-long guardrails, this guy wants to talk
22 RIVERS across 22 STATES in 22 MONTHS
A lone canoeist crosses America in search of what binds us together
SUPERNATURAL VISITORS
Readers share their not-so-scary ghost stories
A Soldier's Ghost Story
The World War II veteran had a mysterious visitor who showed up at his bedside with a clear, comforting message
THE NICEST PLACES IN AMERICA
For the sixth year in a row, Reader's Digest spotlights places where people are kind, resilient, and always striving to make their communities better.
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.
Learn a Language as an Adult
Contrary to conventional thinking, it isn't too late
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.
A Celebration of 100th Birthdays
A Celebration of 100th Birthdays
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.
My Southern Accent, Lost and Found
For years, I denied this part of myself, until I realized what I was missing
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
THE PLACEBO CURE
WHY DOCTORS ARE PRESCRIBING SUGAR PILLS INSTEAD OF THE REAL THING
The ENDURING DELIGHT of the DICTIONARY
Every unknown word is a solvable mystery
What I'm Currently Reading
Classics? Self-help books? Not for this Reader's Digest editor.
SO THAT'S WHY WE SAY THAT
Fun facts about the language that's been confounding speakers for centuries: English
A Peek at New Eye Science
Smart contact lenses may do far more than correct vision.
A Dose of Mental Health
Many people are microdosing, but scientists are split over whether the benefits of taking small amounts of psychedelic drugs are a placebo effect or something more
13 Things Home Sweet Vacation Home
We found a fix
Advice to the Young
One of the world's most celebrated writers has much to share—though she sometimes wonders whether she should keep her thoughts to herself
Quincy the Show Goat
BEST PET PALS
THE BEST SANDWICH IN EVERY STATE
We teamed up with Taste of Home and our collective readers to find the 50 greatest ways to fill two slices of bread (or just one, or a bun, or a biscuit...)
WORLD OF MEDICINE
THE HEALTHY NEWS
THE IMPOSSIBLE RESCUE
When 13 members of a Thai youth soccer team became trapped in a flooded cave, the two-week ordeal mesmerized the world. Here's the extraordinary story of how they were saved.