10.29.22

Welcome to your weekly roundup on living well, made simple.

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A TikTok trend about mouth taping while you sleep can be dangerous

Social media is promoting mouth taping as a solution to mouth breathing at night. Science says there's no proof this works, and may even harm your health if you have a sleep disorder.

Stop trying to fix yourself, this expert says

Nora McInerny's new essay collection offers a cutting and comedic retort to "our aggressively, oppressively optimistic culture" and "obsession with self-improvement." She suggests honesty and underachievement as goals better suited to reality.

6 things Taylor Swift has taught me about living well

Her deeply personal lyrics are iconic. Her public statements are often revealing, even as she grows more private. We have watched singer-songwriter Taylor Swift grow into a woman at the top of her industry and she has a lot to teach us about living well.

New treatment for nightmares holds promise, study finds

Playing a sound while people are reimagining their nightmares as positive experiences lessened scary dreams fourfold, a new study found.

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Watch: Dog behavior can now be demystified using brain scans

Researchers at Emory University have figured out how to get dogs to lay still in fMRI machines for 30 minutes at a time without restraint, all so they can figure out the answers to questions like, "Does my dog love me?" This latest study looks at the two key ways a dog's eye differs from that of a human, and how a wider perspective might affect their behavior.

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