In an age of polarized debates and dug-in opinions, obdurate feels more relevant than ever. It’s the word that captures our cultural stalemates: firm, unmovable, sometimes admirable and often ...

Imagine you’re a physician and you are called in to evaluate a patient who has had a sudden change in his neurological status, likely a stroke. You find him alert, mobile, and talking. But when you ...

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MAGA is completely losing it after New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani told a story about his “aunt” who wasn’t really his parent’s sibling. Zohran Mamdani has been forced to explain ...

There are words that are easy to understand, and then, there are words like “recondite.” The thing about “recondite” is that it doesn’t just describe something obscure and complex to figure out, it is ...

Hollywood makes death seem dramatic. The hero is dying, yet they miraculously muster up the energy to utter something profound, some last-minute understanding of the world. But in reality, death is ...