PsychologyJune 20, 2024
A New Vision for Neighborhoods That Could Fight Loneliness
These cohousing communities are fighting an epidemic of loneliness with radical neighborliness.
Stories by Kit R. Roane
Kit R. Roane is a producer at Retro Report. He has worked as a journalist and documentary photographer for more than 20 years, covering local, national and foreign assignments for a variety of publications, including The New York Times and U.S. News & World Report.
ConservationApril 20, 2023
This Astoundingly Simple Ancient Technique Is Helping to Beat Back Drought
Amid a warming world, these conservationists have brought back a very old and very low-tech drought-busting practice, and they are getting results.
Public HealthNovember 17, 2020
Vaping Industry Echoes Big Tobacco’s Misleading Call for Science
To understand the battle over e-cigarettes, one must look to history—and big tobacco
Public HealthMay 19, 2020
Why History Urges Caution on Coronavirus Immunity Testing
Snorting powdered smallpox scabs and jumping into the beds of those freshly dead from yellow fever. Humanity has gone to extreme lengths in search of immunity before.
Public HealthMay 14, 2020
Why History Urges Caution on Coronavirus Immunity Testing
Being immune was once a status symbol—and another way to segregate and divide humanity
Public HealthApril 8, 2020
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