How Anger Affects the Body

If your chill was nowhere to be found this year, you’re not alone. Public life and personal hardships provided ample fodder for flare-ups, which, in addition to costing your cool, can also take a more serious toll: According to scientists, prolonged and extreme anger can also exacerbate existing health problems, as well as affect the…

Mistletoe: A Brief and Strange History

Mistletoe fans speculate that the reason we kiss under the plant — a hemiparasitic shrub that has been used to treat cancer — can be traced back millenniums: maybe to Celtic druids, maybe to a Norse myth. But according to Judith Flanders, a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham and the author of…