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One of the Best Ways to See the Northern Lights? On an Airplane

Few travelers anticipate looking out their window and seeing the northern lights from a plane—but it may just be your best bet at catching the phenomenon. Witnessing the majestic northern lights is a classic travel bucket list experience, after all, but unlike visiting the Eiffel Tower or peering into the depths of the Grand Canyon, encountering the aurora is not a guaranteed experience. Even the best laid winter trips to Iceland or Swedish Lapland can be thwarted by cloudy or rainy nights, which are common weather conditions in the northern reaches of the world where the lights appear.

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Health & Fitness

What Happens To Your Body When You Don't Get Enough Light

It’s that time of year again: The days are so short that you barely get any daylight outside of work hours. By the time you clock out, it’s already dark, and you’d rather saddle up on the couch than hit the gym. To make matters worse, you’re craving comfort foods that will only add to your waistline. It’s also the time of year when many of us are hit with seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of depression that occurs when you don’t get enough light. So how exactly does the lack of light translate into all of these issues?

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Health & Fitness

Take a Homeric Bath

One of the things I love about the Iliad and the Odyssey is that I always notice new things when I re-read them.

During my last read-through, the importance of baths in both Homeric works stuck out to me.

In Homer, the bath serves as a ritual in several ways. In both the Iliad and the Odyssey, warriors returning from the battlefield take baths to wash the gore and grime of battle off themselves physically and spiritually. In this instance, the bath serves as a purification ritual.

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Mental Health

I Tried the Scandinavian Sleep Method

Last month, my now-husband, Alex and I spent a week in Copenhagen, Denmark for part of our honeymoon. And not to be dramatic, but I loved absolutely everything about it—the hygge lifestyle, the thriving bike culture, the drool-worthy design, the clothes—even the sleeping arrangements. Yep, the sleeping arrangements. Because when we tucked in for bed on our first night, we noticed we weren’t bundled under one duvet, but two.

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Find Your Fancy with These January Getaway Ideas

Gearing up for the first month of a new year we always get chills—and not just because, for many of us, it’s actually chilly outside. No, we’re excited about new adventures, outlooks, and maybe even a new haircut. Though the last few years have felt like déjà vu, this time it feels different, so let’s dream big. (Man, we hope we’re not jinxing anything.)

The Year's Most Popular Netflix Shows, Mapped

As you look back on the places you visited and the things you accomplished in 2022, don’t forget about the shows you binge-watched. This year saw the release of several new hits, as well as the conclusions of some long-running favorites. If Netflixis your streaming hub of choice, there’s a good chance you tuned in to one of the shows in the graphic below.

I usually wake up just ahead of my alarm. What's up with that?

Maybe this happens to you sometimes, too:

You go to bed with some morning obligation on your mind, maybe a flight to catch or an important meeting. The next morning, you wake up on your own and discover you've beat your alarm clock by just a minute or two.

What's going on here? Is it pure luck? Or perhaps you possess some uncanny ability to wake up precisely on time without help?

It turns out many people have come to Dr. Robert Stickgold over the years wondering about this phenomenon.

Terrible Life Tips That Are As Funny As They Are Awful

Life is hard. The moment that you think you might have learned the basics, a curveball comes along to prove you all wrong. This thing doesn't come with a manual, no matter what the self-help industrymight try to keep selling us. We've got to take those valuable pieces of advice wherever we possibly can, and hope that they actually work out for us.

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