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Immigration lawyer Burden traces the exhilarating start and excruciating dissolution of her two-decade marriage in this bruising debut. Dividing the narrative into five acts, Burden recounts how, ...

A study establishes that "social ties" — a fancy way of saying being nice to other, even those you don't know — has benefits.

Since Omegle's demise in late 2023, the internet has been introduced to a number of Omegle alternatives, from the tame to the explicit. Thundr is a random video and text chat service that's emulating ...

I was always amazed at the ability of my husband’s parents to strike up conversations with total strangers any time in almost any place. Most memorable was an escalator ride going down to the main ...

A quick look at how we have designed the modern world suggests that most people would prefer not talking to strangers. We order our food via apps to avoid talking to a restaurant employee or cashier.

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A Queens sicko was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly waltzed into an apartment he had no connection to last month and started a vicious inferno that killed four people, including a 3-year-old girl.

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This post is Part 2 of a series. Part 1 can be found here. Recently, I was asked to blurb a book called Once Upon a Stranger. In it, I learned fascinating insights on why talking to strangers can ...