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Learning From Animal Friendships
The New York Times: A goat frolics with a baby rhinoceros. A pig nestles up to a house cat. A rat snake makes nice with the dwarf hamster originally intended as its lunch. Few things
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Want To Know When You’ll Die? Ask Your Friends
Refinery29: Your best friends know your favorite band and brunch place and exactly what movie will cheer you up. Sometimes, you may even feel like they know you better than you know yourself. Now, research suggests they
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Your Friends Sort of Know When You’ll Die
Pacific Standard: Your friends know you better than you know yourself. They even know how long you’ve got to live. Well, roughly speaking they do. It’s not that they’ve got extrasensory perception, time machines, or membership
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Are Teenagers Getting Less Lonely?
The New York Times: At a time when many say loneliness is increasing in America, a new study offers what seems like hopeful news: Teenagers, at least, may be less lonely than they used to be. But some
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Your Adult Siblings May Be The Secret To A Long, Happy Life
NPR: Somehow we’re squeezing 16 people into our apartment for Thanksgiving this year, with relatives ranging in age from my 30-year-old nephew to my 90-year-old mother. I love them all, but in a way the
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How Long Will You Live? Ask Your Friends.
The Huffington Post: When actor James Gandolfini died in the summer of 2013, at age 51, a prominent cardiologist described him as “a heart attack waiting to happen.” The award-winning Sopranos star was overweight and inactive, and
