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Birth
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Birth
Mary Shelley and the Horror of Maternity
Sady Doyle
May 22
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Adventure As Medicine
What I learned about healing myself on the road.
Rebecca Thomas
May 7
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How Improving Your Receptivity To Feedback Can Supercharge Your Career
The one attitude you can’t succeed without
Matt Trainer
May 23
Proteas and the Case for Googling Your Plants
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Proteas and the Case for Googling Your Plants
A few weeks ago, my boyfriend brought me flowers for the first time. They were a strange choice — not conventionally pretty, but beautiful…
Edith Zimmerman
May 24
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What I Would Tell Any Young Woman Starting a Business
I never intended (or really wanted) to have my own business. I was always open to the idea of freelancing, as someone whose father has been…
Chelsea Fagan
May 23
In case you missed it
A friend sent me a proposed proof of a famous unsolved maths problem — so why haven’t I read it?
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A friend sent me a proposed proof of a famous unsolved maths problem — so why haven’t I read it?
When mathematics loses its shine, and then recovers it
Junaid Mubeen
May 14
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Art, light or dark
Respect the arts or they will fuck you up.
Christopher May
May 22
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Let Computers Be the Judge
The case for incorporating machine learning into the U.S. criminal justice process
Jennifer Doleac
Apr 20
How to Optimize Your Brain for Exceptional Focus and Productivity
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How to Optimize Your Brain for Exceptional Focus and Productivity
Science shows that multitasking can eat away your focus. Here are the solutions that will make you more successful.
Elle Kaplan
May 25
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In the World of Women’s Health, Men Make the Rules
It’s not our honor at stake — it’s our health care, and it needs defending
Meghan Bausone
Apr 21
Unexpected Lessons from Unintentionally Starting a Business
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Unexpected Lessons from Unintentionally Starting a Business
From a personal Tumblr to an LLC
Chelsea Fagan
Apr 28
The Future of Telecommuting
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The Future of Telecommuting
Potentially Positive Economic News?
Yonatan Zunger
Apr 15
The Next Powerful Political Constituency: The Millions Marginalized by Autonomy
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The Next Powerful Political Constituency: The Millions Marginalized by Autonomy
Job losses, pay cuts, and ineffective retraining could mimic the trajectory of the Rust Belt
Joshua Lasky
May 16
Expensive Public Transportation Projects Won’t Survive the Shift to Autonomous Vehicles
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Expensive Public Transportation Projects Won’t Survive the Shift to Autonomous Vehicles
Governments need to ensure that long-term investments aren’t undercut by emerging technologies
Joshua Lasky
May 12
Nazi Chic: The style that just won’t go away
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Nazi Chic: The style that just won’t go away
In 1999 the British editor of GQ was fired for placing a Nazi on a list of who was Best Dressed in the 20th Century. He specifically…
Angella d’Avignon
May 3
Orders of the Pax Americana
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Orders of the Pax Americana
The Blob has whiplash. That coterie of Beltway foreign-policy experts and think-tank denizens, keepers of the bipartisan conventional…
Luke Thompson
May 2
Who leads, in theory and in practice
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Who leads, in theory and in practice
The demise of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) in March proves that failure is an orphan. The rancorous squabbling over the bill’s fate…
Luke Thompson
Apr 10
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“I Really Couldn’t Relate to The Murdering Psychopathic Main Character”
The contagion of “relatability” in fiction.
Felicia C. Sullivan
May 15
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The Mood Repair Device
A short story about one day making procrastination obsolete
K. D. McAdams
May 16
The Complete Guide to Developing Your Grit
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The Complete Guide to Developing Your Grit
A realistic method for achieving your goals
Patrik Edblad
Apr 14
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The Persistence of America’s Political Polarization
And the structural conditions that got us here
Jennifer Victor
Apr 6
Silicon Valley’s Obsession with the Future Is Older Than You Think
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Silicon Valley’s Obsession with the Future Is Older Than You Think
In 996 AD, a Benedictine monk named Father Gerbert, who would later become Pope Sylvester II, created the first modern mechanical clock. It…
Michael Marinaccio
May 15
The Telegraph Changed How You Spend Your Time
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The Telegraph Changed How You Spend Your Time
And made you a slave to irrelevant media
Michael Marinaccio
Apr 17
Our Top-Down Congress
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Our Top-Down Congress
How the centralization of congressional power thwarts the legislative process
James M. Curry
Apr 6
How to Use Psychology to Solve the Procrastination Puzzle
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How to Use Psychology to Solve the Procrastination Puzzle
Tips from the world of procrastination research
Tim Pychyl
Apr 26
