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Reader's Digest US
ALL in a Day's WORK
While working for the IRS, I fielded a phone call from a man who asked, \"Are you the person I spoke with yesterday?\"
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
How AI IS SAVING LIVES
Artificial intelligence can find new uses for existing drugs, helping to treat rare diseases, including the one that almost killed Joseph Coates
8 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
LAST-DITCH EFFORT
THE 13-YEAR-OLD SKATEBOARDER HAD BEEN MISSING FOR THREE DAYS. THEN A SHARP-NOSED HERO PICKED UP THE TRAIL.
9 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
FLUSH WITH PRIDE
The first modern flushable toilet was invented in 1596 by Sir John Harington.
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
LAUGHTER - THE BEST Medicine
A hack golfer is having a tough day, shanking his shots off the fairway and into roughs.
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Host Amy Poehler's goal with this podcast was simple: \"to try and make a very rough and unkind world fill with a little bit more love and laughter.\"
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Project Hail Mary
HELP US, RYAN GOSLING, you're our only hope!
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Making Friends with AI
Whether you're already chummy or you've been avoiding getting acquainted, our guide will help you understand how to best use the technology to make your life easier ... and what to watch out for
8 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Escape from Bunker Hill
A freed slave's valor lets colonists fight another day
2 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Could He Avoid AI for Two Whole Days?
Spoiler alert: It was harder than you might think!
10 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
ALL in a Day's WORK
While working for the IRS, I fielded a phone call from a man who asked, \"Are you the person I spoke with yesterday?\"
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Missing Mom
A grieving daughter finds unmistakable signs on a walk around her neighborhood.
2 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
The Ultimate Impulse Buy
After a few minutes at the open house, I am comfortable committing to live in this house forever
2 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
News FROM THE WORLD OF MEDICINE
BRUSH UP - A new study from New York University, which the lead author called “the largest study and most detailed analysis of its kind,” found that certain microbes in the mouth were linked to a sharply higher risk of pancreatic cancer.
2 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
AMERICA THE TASTY
Favorite vittles from around the colonies
2 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
On Second Thought ...
\"Never\" is a long time to not change your mind
4 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
A Marriage at Sea By Sophie Elmhirst
Things you need to brave 117 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean: grit, will, wits ... a bit of joie de vivre?
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
American Classic
What's a renowned, burned-out Broadway star who just had a drunken public meltdown to do other than go back to his Pennsylvania hometown for a shot at redemption?
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
WRITTEN OFF
Before filing your taxes, see what's allowed and what isn't.
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Living History
13 Things
3 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
POINT TO PONDER
EVERY SINGLE DAY YOU LIVE, you make a difference in the world, and you get to choose the difference that you make.
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
LIFE IN THESE 13 Colonies
The voter has long expected politicians to engage in “treating,” whereby candidates ply them with rum punch and whiskey to influence elections.
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Scavengers By Kathleen Boland
Bea Macon, fired from her job on Wall Street, retreats home to her estranged dreamer mom, Christy, and is pulled into a hunt for treasure buried in the Utah desert that Christy read about online.
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Brown Beauty's Midnight Ride
I'T WAS A STODGY spring night that saw Brown Beauty, a valiant beast as brown as the bark on a shagbark hickory tree and as beautiful as m’lady’s ankle, hasten silversmith and amateur dentist Paul Revere across the Massachusetts countryside.
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Where Broken Items GET NEW LIFE
Want to save money and keep stuff out of the landfill? Come to a Repair Café, where neighbors help neighbors.
7 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
"Aaarrrrgghh!!!"
What happens in your brain and body when you're aggravated
6 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
HUMOR in UNIFORM
In Top Gun, the call sign for Tom Cruise's character was Maverick. Mine, as part of Marine Wing Support Squadron 174 while we were stationed in Saudi Arabia, was less masculine.
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
GLAD TO HEAR IT
3 STORIES TO Make Your Day
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
Get the Good Dirt
UP TO 40% of the U.S. food supply gets thrown away—what a waste! Fortunately, many towns now collect compost.
1 min |
April / May 2026
Reader's Digest US
When the Body Attacks Itself
The mystery and misery of autoimmune diseases
3 min |