In 1999 I sat in a Vancouver café with a group of anti-capitalist activists. They’d just returned from protesting the WTO in Seattle to find a new, far stranger foe in town – David Icke.
Rediet Abebe uses the tools of theoretical computer science to understand pressing social problems — and try to fix them. When Rediet Abebe arrived at Harvard University as an undergraduate in 2009, she planned to study mathematics.
Well hello! A version of this article also appeared in the It’s Not Just You newsletter. Sign up here to receive a new edition every Sunday for free. When my youngest child was just a little creature, she’d settle into my mother’s lap and pat the velvety folds of skin under mom’s chin.
Social-distancing mandates and quarantines during a global pandemic have made us more dependent on social media than ever before.
On April 13, the FDA and CDC recommended that use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine be suspended after six women developed serious blood clots after receiving a dose, one of whom died.
For generations, the standard way to learn how to ride a bicycle was with training wheels or a tricycle.
The pandemic has convinced us we have to be useful at all times. Here's what that mentality looks like, and how to deal with it.Think about your work ethic during the pandemic.
Falling head over heels in love is one thing, but if it becomes all-consuming you may be in ‘limerence’.
Whilst residing in Paris in the sixth century, Queen Clotild, the widow of the Merovingian ruler Clovis, became the unwilling subject of the inveterate plotting of her sons, Lothar and Childebert, who were jealous of her guardianship of her grandsons, the children of their brother, Chlodomer.
Take a look at any given corporation’s registration docs, and there’s a good shot you’ll see the address 1209 North Orange Street.
This article was published online on April 8, 2021. When I was a kid, my mother loved to take me out for some light trespassing. This was the 1990s, during which the Atlanta metropolitan area’s population grew nearly 40 percent, and housing construction boomed to match.
Christopher was an ancient Egyptian prisoner. Stephanie's dating the man who had her murdered. They and many others swear by the controversial benefits of past-life regression.
Three years ago, I had a baby. I won’t go into the details, but suffice it to say that she is extremely cute, and I enjoy being her mother. A few months after her birth, I was scrolling on my phone, and I came across news of a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
If you’ve spent enough of your waking hours in the gaping abyss of Twitter, there’s a chance you’ve come across at least one photo from Gerald Stratford, a 72-year-old British retiree who spends his days growing “big veg” (that’s “big vegetables,” for the uninformed).
Willpower is a dangerous, old idea that needs to be scrapped.
Everyone is disliked by someone. Don’t let it slow you down.
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Be honest, how many books on that shelf have you actually read cover to cover?
This piece of pseudo-profanity is what’s known as a taboo deformation—a word we say when we don’t want to say the word.
I love her and it’s a secret. I love her so much it kills me, and you bet I’d sooner die than tell her.