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  • Do you play it safe or spin the wheel? The question is central to the science of well-being

    Should I stay with the hand I’m holding or touch the table for another card? The tension between the two impulses creates the texture of our days, the foundation of our very character from THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Nov 16, 2024. We were on vacation, scanning the menus at a seaside cafe in Greece, when […]

  • How to Win a Nobel Prize

    Inside Michael Houghton’s painstaking quest for a cure for Hepatitis C From New Trail, Spring 2021 Illustration of Mr. Houghton by Adam Cruft When Chiron Corp., a small biotech company in California, hired a young scientist named Michael Houghton in 1982, it was already clear he was an exceptional scientist. Several top biotech companies had […]

  • The Mystery of “Type 2 Fun”

    From THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Sept 3, 2021 Last week, two videos landed in my inbox – field dispatches, from two friends who took off on adventures as soon as COVID-19 restrictions eased. One friend was cycling through the Rockies on a one-speed bike, sleeping rough and grinding it out over high alpine passes; the […]

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Bruce Grierson
Bruce Grierson is a five-time Canadian National Magazine Award-winning feature writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Popular Science, Eighteen Bridges, The Walrus, Psychology Today, Time Magazine, Scientific American , The Guardian, and elsewhere. Learn more…