Olga Khazan

CycleBeads are among the apps offering to help with "user-directed birth control."

Sex without the Pill? There’s an app for that!

March 10, 2015Health

You might have thought of the “rhythm method” of family planning as discredited and low-tech. Not anymore. Fertility awareness mobile apps are reinventing the rhythm approach by adding precision and detail to calendar-based efforts to monitor a woman’s hormonal cycle.

How artists and sculptors healed maimed soldiers during World War I

August 11, 2014Conflict

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