LIFE

From helping nurses de-stress to giving advice to would-be DJs, Guardian readers remember the Radio 2 star whose humour and humanity lit up Britain

A 1983 New Yorker article by Whitney Balliet argued that “Women don’t have the grace and poise to play jazz.” While this comment wasn’t uncommon for the time, it certainly wasn’t universally accepted. In fact, this comment is what feminist writer and producer, Rosetta Reitz, sought to disprove through her decades-long efforts to promote underrepresented […]

Heartbeats could one day help power something beyond hearts. A pacemaker is a device that helps regulate abnormal heart rates using electrical pulses. Leadless pacemakers, which are placed in the heart …

Moshe Pesach Geller, a Bronx-born teacher who spread the gospel of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia with nearly equal fervor, died in Israel on Feb. 12.

I was promoted to conductor on May 19, 1981. This was rare at my age — I had just turned 21 at the end of 1980.

In those days you had to have two years on the road as a brakeman to even qualify to get a promotion. The test I had to take had 519 questions altogether with the first

A young Central Texas boy who struggled with severe epilepsy for nearly a year, now has a new lease on life thanks to immune therapy.

Don’t settle for your friendships withering away. Instead, take action by restoring connection and deepening your community.

When David Jackson Ambrose, M.A. ’15 graduated from St. Joe’s Writing Studies Program after already having a career in social work, he had no idea what lay ahead.

He didn’t expect this future: three published novels and a major literary award nomination.

“State of the Nation,” published in 201

COVID-19’s 2020 death toll had dragged life expectancy down to 78, the lowest since 2009, the report showed.

It’s a whole new experience.