August 13, 2022
-
Bookmark
Are You Sure You’re Not Guilty of the ‘Millennial Pause’?
“This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday.…”
-
Bookmark
Don’t Be So Certain That Social Media Is Undermining Democracy
“opinion Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty If you only read The Atlantic to get your tech news , you’d probably be under the impression…”
-
Bookmark
Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
“Ezra Klein I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message Aug. 7, 2022, 6:00 a.m. ET Credit… Photo Illustration by Pelle Cass Send any…”
-
Bookmark
Desk setup videos have taken over YouTube — and my life
“I t It all started — for me at least — with a desk mat. In the early days of the pandemic, like millions of others, I was suddenly working from home every day…”
-
Bookmark
“I mentioned a month or two ago that I was taking over as the host of The TED Interview podcast, which has been true delight so far—and unsurprisingly many of…”
-
Bookmark
As Right-Wing Rhetoric Escalates, So Do Threats and Violence
“Both threats of political violence and actual attacks have become a steady reality of American life. Experts blame dehumanizing and apocalyptic language. Send…”
August 10, 2022
-
Bookmark
Why aren’t smart people happier?
“Photo cred: my dad Here’s a definition of intelligence that lots of psychologists can get behind : Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among…”
August 9, 2022
-
Bookmark
Privilege and Pro-Office Pablum
“I want to make a confession. In the last years – since 2019, at the very least – I have worn pajamas to work almost every day. This in no way changes the…”
-
Bookmark
Opinion | The Case for Longtermism
“Guest Essay The Case for Longtermism Aug. 5, 2022 Credit… Tim Enthoven Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month.…”
-
Bookmark
Opinion | Why does the IRS need $80 billion? Just look at its cafeteria.
“Opinion Why does the IRS need $80 billion? Just look at its cafeteria. By and Photos by Matthew Busch This is the cafeteria at the Internal Revenue Service…”
August 7, 2022
-
Bookmark
The Perils of Audience Capture
“I. The Man Who Ate Himself In 2016, 24 year old Nicholas Perry wanted to be big online. He started uploading videos to his YouTube channel in which he pursued…”
August 6, 2022
-
Bookmark
The Rehearsal’s Most Mind-Bending Episode Yet Reveals What the Show Is Really About
“Nathan Fielder in The Rehearsal episode, “The Fielder Method.” HBO What does Nathan Fielder want? Or should we perhaps ask what, exactly, does “Nathan Fielder,”…”
-
Bookmark
Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present
““Blade Runner,” “E.T.,” “Tron,” “The Wrath of Khan” and “The Thing” all arrived that one season 40 years ago to become indelible and influential. The future is…”
-
Bookmark
Four ways of looking at The Rehearsal
“Nathan Fielder, the mastermind of The Rehearsal . HBO Imagine a TV show so profoundly strange that the more you thought about it, the less you knew what it ……”
-
Bookmark
What was the Schleswig-Holstein Question anyway?
““Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business,” occasional British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston is reputed to have said. “The…”
August 5, 2022
-
Bookmark
How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire
“Mike Esposito still won’t say who gave him the tip about the records. But on July 14, he went public with an explosive claim. In a sometimes halting video…”
August 3, 2022
-
Bookmark
Footprints Discovery Suggests Ancient ‘Ghost Tracks’ May Cover the West
“Footprints discovered on the Utah Test and Training Range, about 80 miles west of Salt Lake City. Credit… Daron Duke The set of 88 prints is about 12,000…”
-
Bookmark
Speculation Is on Fire Around HBO Max’s Future, Planned Layoffs in Major Streaming Shake-Up
“Speculation Is on Fire Around HBO Max’s Future, Planned Layoffs in Major Streaming Shake-Up by , Brandon Katz and Umberto Gonzalez | August 3, 2022 @ 11:23 AM…”
-
Bookmark
Why Old Spice, Colgate and Dawn are locked up at drug stores
“New York (CNN Business) These days, it feels like many stores are fortresses. Most of the products on the drug store shelf are behind lock and key, even…”
August 2, 2022
-
Bookmark
The Ace Hotel brings Toronto architecture to a new level
“The Ace Hotel’s main entrance on Camden Street cuts through a facade made up of brick-fronted panels. Younes Bounhar/Doublespace Photography/The Globe and Mail…”
August 1, 2022
-
Bookmark
TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants
“Last month, Blake Chandlee, TikTok ’s president of global business solutions, was asked if he was concerned about competition from existing social-media…”
-
Bookmark
The campaign to rename monkeypox gets complicated
“S ince the earliest days of the current global monkeypox outbreak, scientists and public health authorities have been calling for the disease to be renamed,…”
July 31, 2022
-
Bookmark
“Photo by John Thomas on Unsplash Recommendation media is the new standard for content distribution. Here’s why friend graphs can‘t compete in an algorithmic…”
-
Bookmark
‘You can’t say that!’: how to argue, better
“A few years ago, I had an argument with a close friend who had decided not to give his children any vaccinations . To preserve our relationship, I vowed never…”
July 30, 2022
-
Bookmark
US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design
“Enlarge / NuScale’s reactor-in-a-can. NuScale On Friday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it would be issuing a certification to a new…”
July 28, 2022
-
Bookmark
Is This the Future of Urban Resilience?
“What began as a defensive measure to protect Canada’s largest city from extreme flooding has evolved into one of the most ambitious urban resilience projects in…”
-
Bookmark
What’s the Deal With Water Bottles?
“July 9, 2022 A solitary figure, a microphone and a stool. Those are the primary images of stand-up comedy — as reliable and ubiquitous as a book’s cover, spine…”
-
Bookmark
Of the hundreds of methods out there to help us get things done…why don’t they, you know, work?
“Back in 2010, Walter Chen and Rodrigo Guzman had a weird idea: a website where you write down the stuff you accomplished that day, and which then emails you a…”
July 27, 2022
-
Bookmark
The habits that help prevent allergies
“As a child, Isabelle Gerretsen suffered from a wide range of food allergies. Could scientific advances save others from having to endure the same? W When I was…”
-
Bookmark
Is Beyoncé’s Latest Album Rollout (Gasp!) Conventional?
“The singer, who has prioritized innovation over commercial domination, has opted for a more standard playbook ahead of her seventh solo album, “Renaissance,”…”