What I learned from Frank, the health club security guard | Mickey Z.

Photo by Ryan McGuire Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 27, 2017 Yes, I’m someone who eschewed a college education, but I earned a PhD in human nature working at the Vertical Club (my first ever gym ...

That time I changed the course of women’s tennis history (nbd) | Mickey Z.

Martina NavratilovaMickey Z. -- World News Trust May 21, 2017 I’ve sometimes gained personal training clients thanks to the ordinary act of correcting a stranger’s workout form. You see, to put it bl ...

Pufferfish and humans share the same genes for teeth | Alexandre P. Thiery et al.

By Brocken Inaglory - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2219327 May 16, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Human teeth evolved from the same genes that make the bizarre beaked t ...

Why you need your beauty sleep: People may not want to hang out with you if you look tired | Deborah Netburn

Credit: xiaphias/Wikipedia May 18, 2017 (Los Angeles Times) -- You know the drill: You haven't had a good night's sleep for a few days and now you don't like what you see in the mirror - puffy eyelid ...

Scientists shed light on the tight connection between mental and physical health | Nature Human Behaviour

May 16, 2017 (medicalxpress.com) -- How do you feel right now, in general? Pleasant or unpleasant? Crummy, calm, or jittery? Somewhere in between? Northeastern's Lisa Feldman Barrett and her colleagu ...

A Paler Shade of Gray | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 5, 2017 If you seek to know why this country is in so much trouble, check out the lead reports about the health care reform bill in today’s New York Time ...

Who Cares About Helping Homeless Women? | Mickey Z.

Photo courtesy of PIX11 News Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 25, 2017 I hadn’t seen J. in more than a week and that was concerning. It always worries me when one of my “regulars” vanishes. Often, ...

The Drug War on Us... Through Painkillers! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust April 11, 2017 This writer's friend Jerry told me a sad tale about his 45-year-old nephew: "In 2010 he had major back surgery for herniated ...

Racket of Rackets | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 31, 2017 If you thought banking in our time was a miserable racket -- which it is, of course, and by “racket” I mean a criminal enterprise -- then so-c ...

The Unrealized Dreams of the Renwick Smallpox Hospital (photo essay) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 21, 2017 Late last year, I visited and photographed the crumbling ruins of the old Renwick Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island (formerly ...

Rebuilding Activism from the Ground Up | Mickey Z.

Photo by Ryan McGuire Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 22, 2017 I. I recognized a familiar sound I’d just finished working with a personal training client near Central Park before hopping on a down ...