Pocket’s Top-Saved Stories of the Month

“Just because I don’t care about you doesn’t mean I want to cause you more pain,” says Patric Gagne, author of a new memoir about her sociopathy.

What I learned after embarking on a week-long experiment using Charles Duhigg’s zippy psychology cum self-help book Supercommunicators to improve my conversational skills.

These tweaks to your daily routine can make a huge dent in your numbers.

Grumbling about something can feel as if it offers relief, but it spreads misery. Here’s how to break the habit and make everyone happier.

Can new legislation protect us from the companies building tech to read our minds?

I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam.

Airplanes aren’t made for this much luggage

If you’re worried about cognitive decline, add this to your routine.

As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

Famous marriage therapists on how to do it right.

Passkeys are here to replace passwords. When they work, it’s a seamless vision of the future. But don’t ditch your old logins just yet.

Austin Riley spent decades raising exotic animals in the Texas Hill Country. The animal he thought he knew best changed his life forever.

American society is largely built around the assumption that one parent will stay home. So why is there so little material support for homemakers?

Forming a healthy relationship with regret means learning to look it in the face.

End your breakfast rut while you get your fiber fix.

A sudden appendectomy as a child made Heather Smith curious about what the appendix is for and why it gets inflamed. Now as an anatomy researcher, she’s finding answers.

The tech myth has pervaded all corners of society, but its origins show it was never true to begin with.

After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death?

And what Washington is doing about it behind the scenes.

No, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise?

Why it’s tough to feel rested, how to deliver a eulogy or other challenging speech, and the man rich Ivy League hopefuls are banking on for help.