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Global shipping carbon tax survives U.S. pressure campaign, could face November vote

The Trump administration has spent months pressuring countries to abandon the IMO's plan to tax shipping emissions. A recent ...
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People who grew up in the 1960s often carry a quiet fear of becoming dependent on others because so much of their identity was built around not needing help

He was seventy-four when he fell in the bathroom and didn't tell anyone for three days. He was bruised. He was shaken. He had ...
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I tried living without a smartphone for 30 days — here’s what I learnt about happiness

I didn’t go into this experiment to prove a point. I’m not anti-technology, and I run digital publications for a living. But a few months ago, I caught myself refreshing a news feed before my morning ...
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Psychologists identified three infant temperament types in the 1950s that still predict adult personality with uncomfortable accuracy — and the one labeled "difficult" tur…

Some children are labeled difficult before they can speak — and it turns out that label was hiding the most interesting thing ...
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I'm 77 and I finally understand the difference between a child who loves you and a child who manages you — and the hardest part is that managing you still looks like …

I am seventy-seven old. I have three grown children. Two of them love me. One of them manages me. And it took me until last ...
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I drank black coffee for 15 years before realizing I had no memory of choosing it - and it made me wonder how many parts of my life were never really mine

Most of what we call preference is really just repetition. And most of what we call identity is just preference we never revisited. I drink black coffee every morning. I've been drinking it that way ...
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The rarest form of generosity in midlife often isn't giving money or time, it's letting someone else tell a story you already know the ending of without correcting them ...

In midlife, the rarest gift costs nothing: listening to someone's repeated story as if hearing it for the first time, without interrupting or revealing you've heard it before. Your aunt is three ...
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North Carolina's Black communities are paying the price for fashion's forever chemicals

A community-led coalition in Sampson County has documented widespread PFAS contamination in private wells near North Carolina ...
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Nobody talks about why ordinary life can feel emotionally flat after a meaningful trip, but sometimes travel reconnects you to parts of yourself that are harder to access i…

Travel doesn't create feelings that aren't yours. It creates conditions where feelings that have been quietly suppressed ...
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It took me until my 35 to realize that discipline isn't a personality trait. It's a system. And the easier the system, the more disciplined I am.

If you've spent years thinking you're just not the disciplined type, the question worth asking might not be how to become more disciplined. It might be what part of your current system is asking too ...
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Adults who quietly stop drinking alcohol in their fifties without announcing it or joining anything aren't always doing dry January, sometimes they reached the age where ...

Somewhere around fifty, some people quietly stop drinking without fanfare or reason—not from a wellness trend, but because pretending to enjoy it finally costs more than the social comfort it provides ...
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I asked 7 digital nomads what they actually felt living the life everyone envies — and every single one of them used the same word without being prompted

I put the question plainly: what does it actually feel like to live the life everyone tells you they want? Seven digital nomads. Different countries, different income brackets, different reasons for ...