March 4, 2021
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It’s Not Every Day We Get a New Blue
“In 2009, a professor discovered a novel hue by accident in his university lab. Now, you can paint with it YInMn Blue is named for its chemical components:…”
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The Pandemic Can End Without Herd Immunity
“Health The new variants are rewriting the pandemic’s end—but it can still end. Sarah Zhang 7:00 AM ET Mark Harris / Getty Let’s begin by defining our terms.…”
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The Clubhouse App and the Rise of Oral Psychodynamics
“There has been a lot of brouhaha about “Clubhouse” lately—a drop-in audio chat app that’s exactly what it sounds like. Right now, it’s invite only, so it’s not…”
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We Are Saying It With Flowers. Loudly and Repeatedly.
“At Home Make: Birria Explore: ‘Bridgerton’ Style Parent: With Improv Read: Joyce Carol Oates Emily Scott, a florist who runs Floriconvento Flowers in her…”
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“Nearly two years ago when I wrote one of the earliest features about Substack for the Times, I called it something akin to a new/old social network, a product I…”
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Billie Holiday deserves better
“B efore the tragedies of Britney Spears or Whitney Houston, there was Billie Holiday. There’s a cruel blueprint to the way American society treats many of its…”
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Imagine Your Flexible Office Work Future
“This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here . If you like it and want more like it in…”
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The short-term, middle-term, and long-term future of the coronavirus
“W hen experts envision the future of the coronavirus, many predict that it will become a seasonal pathogen that won’t be much more than a nuisance for most of…”
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“Looking closely at dang near anything might very well be the key to it all. 1 With that in mind, I’ve been trying to get better at this, this deceptively simple…”
March 3, 2021
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Lorraine O’Grady Finally Has the World’s Attention
“Photo: Hassan Hajjaj for New York Magazine. Photo assistance by Martei Korley. On a very hot day in September 1983, the artist Lorraine O’Grady dressed in all…”
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The story of ‘Drake’s plate’, the biggest hoax in Calif. history
“This was nice. But Shinn decided it would be even nicer to roll rocks down the steep incline. As he searched the ground for rocks, he noticed a flat metal…”
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What Every Heart Emoji Really Means
“Questions about heart emojis are very common, and this makes a lot of sense. No-one wants to be accused of giving the wrong impression, nor step over some kind…”
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“Advertising has replaced product recommendations and personalization on Amazon and other retailers’ websites. They are no longer trying to guide product…”
February 25, 2021
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‘WandaVision’ Lives Inside TV. Just Like We Do.
“What to Watch Best Movies on Netflix Best of Disney Plus Best of Amazon Prime Best Netflix Documentaries New on Netflix Critic’s Notebook After a year of…”
February 8, 2021
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Portrait of a Clubhouse skeptic
“A song to read by: “ Everyone ,” by Van Morrison What I’m reading: “ The Sympathizer ,” by Viet Thanh Nguyen Share Medialyte Clubhouse in the dog house On…”
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How Marvel Movies Are Made Before They’re Actually Made
“Insider takes a look at how big Hollywood blockbusters (Marvel movies, in this case) are increasingly made, with an extensive digital previsualization stage…”
February 7, 2021
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Opinion: From ‘wellness’ to insurrection – the hidden threat of global woo
“In dealing with the peculiarities of our friends and family, it used to be pretty easy to draw a line between the dangerous and the merely flaky. If they…”
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The Democratic Party Has a Fatal Misunderstanding of the QAnon Phenomenon
“On Thursday, the House voted to strip Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, putting an end to one chapter of what’s sure to…”
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“Pattern Matching The hot new social app has found success by replicating real-world social structures rather than exploding them Will Oremus 2 hours ago · 10…”
February 5, 2021
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Drug makers resist Ottawa’s pleas for more COVID-19 vaccines before April
“Toronto’s Mass Vaccination Clinic on Jan. 17, 2021. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press The federal government’s plans for a mass-vaccination campaign to start in…”
February 1, 2021
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In Praise of Positive Reinforcement for Your Pets
“You want to reward good behaviors, not use tools to punish negative ones. Pet supplies is big business. In 2019, Americans spent $95.7 billion on our pets. With…”
January 31, 2021
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The Oscars Are a Mess. Let’s Make Them Messier.
“Critic’s Notebook Nothing has been normal about the last year, including the movies. The academy shouldn’t try to pretend otherwise. It should see this as an…”
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The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship
“Health There’s a reason you miss the people you didn’t even know that well. Amanda Mull 12:02 PM ET Valerie Chiang A few months ago, when millions of Americans…”
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A Pandemic Is Hard Enough. For Some, Being Single Has Made It Harder.
“At Home Make: Butterscotch Pudding Paint: With John Lurie Exercise: Moderately Listen: To Arlo Parks “One day I realized it had been three months since I had…”
January 30, 2021
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We Have to Save Books from the Book People
“Some online discourses resurface as if on schedule, like an itch that can never be scratched to satisfaction. I’d like to prescribe a salve for one of Twitter’s…”
January 22, 2021
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Kingston City Council urges province to phase out gas-powered electric plants
“City Council discussing a motion to write to provincial ministers regarding gas-fired power plants. Kingston City Council unanimously passed a motion at their…”
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Why Biden’s Inaugural Address Succeeded
“Ideas In 20 minutes, the president signaled how he will approach this job and this moment in history. 11:18 AM ET James Fallows Staff writer at The Atlantic…”
January 21, 2021
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Apple’s First Headset to Be Niche Precursor to Eventual AR Glasses
“An attendee uses a hand tracking feature with Facebook’s Oculus Quest VR headset during the Oculus Connect 6 conference in San Jose, California, on Sept. 26,…”
January 19, 2021
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Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History
“Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man is, particularly relative to its prescience, one of the most misunderstood books of all time. Aris…”
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How COVID unlocked the power of RNA vaccines
“It was a Friday afternoon in March 2013 when Andy Geall got the call. Three people in China had just become infected with a new strain of avian influenza. The…”