Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, ...

I broke its neck. When making a vase at the potter's wheel, I torqued its slippery neck clear off the pot as I tried to thin it into a graceful curve. I find vases gratifying to make and their shapes ...

The late writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron famously felt bad about her neck. Ephron’s concern, as expressed in her best-known essay I Feel Bad About My Neck, was ageing, and the neck in particular as a ...

Those of you familiar with What Every Body Is Saying, or my previous Psychology Today posts, know that when we are under stress, our brain requires a certain amount of hand-to-body touching (hand ...