How We Need to Keep Growing Up The business of growing up is something we normally think comes to a close when we get to 16 or so – and finally turn into those fully finished products: adults. Up until then, our growth is the subject of quite a lot of collective fascination. Twentieth-century…

“There’s always someone worse off than yourself.” Whenever I hear that, I wonder who stands at the end of the chain of misfortune, the person whose life is worst of all. In a parish where I once worked, I met him. He was a young man whom I’ll call Dean, with schizophrenia, a condition so…

Animation by Slate . Photo by Thinkstock. On Slate ’s watch, professional writing has changed out of cocktail attire into sweatpants—or, more precisely, it’s embraced the freedom to wear evening gowns, clubwear, athleisure, business casual, or nothing at all. That doesn’t mean the subjects being…

Half an hour late, and just ahead of his minder—he was always a step ahead of his ponderous old minder—Abraham Chabon sauntered into the room where the designer Virgil Abloh was giving a private preview of Off-White's collection for spring-summer 2017 to a small group of reporters, editorial…

On Feeling Depressed We’re not talking about the extreme, most paralysing, regions of despair – where external medical help is vital. Our target is rather the times when we feel – as indicated by Henry David Thoreau’s phrase – mired in moods of ‘quiet desperation’: a large, grey hinterland in which…

Design + Mental Health And how the design industry can tackle mental health Words by Emily Gosling Published on September 12th, 2016 Creativity and Depression, illustration by George Douglas Notions of the “tortured artist” are well-worn: who can forget Van Gogh’s severed ear; poor Sylvia Plath’s…

The Age of the Instagram Eyebrow Image credit: Darren Garrett You can probably tell a woman’s generation by the thickness of her eyebrows. I was a teen in the 90s, when a uniformly tweezed, slender arch was the norm—and when you pluck that much you just aren’t going to get it back. Now my natural…

After years of posting indiscriminately to social media, I was suddenly faced with uncomfortable questions about what will happen to all of it when I die. BuzzFeed News A few weeks ago, I went to my own funeral. Or at least a simulation of my own funeral. I was sitting in an auditorium, alone except…

Why We Go Cold on Our Partners The story of the path to coldness in love is well known. We start off full of affection for one another and then – with time – feelings fade. We start prioritising work; we check our phones while they’re speaking; we don’t especially want to hear how their day went.…

The Third Transportation Revolution Lyft’s Vision for the Next Ten Years and Beyond Introduction: A Country Built for Cars I remember when I first fell in love with cars. It started small with Hot Wheels when I was three and Micromachines when I was six. Everything about them was fast and exciting —…

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I was sitting in a large meditation hall in a converted novitiate in central Massachusetts when I reached into my pocket for my iPhone. A woman in the front of the room gamely held a basket in front of her, beaming beneficently, like a priest with a collection plate. I duly surrendered my little…

Why We’re Fated to Be Lonely (But That’s OK) There are few more shameful confessions to make than that we are lonely. The basic assumption is that no respectable person could ever feel isolated – unless they had just moved country or been widowed. Yet in truth, a high degree of loneliness is an…

Yvon Chouinard showing Crow children how to fish in Montana. He has frequently disappeared for months, sometimes for half the year, to fish, climb, kayak, surf, ski—and preserve—the planet’s untamed precincts. Photograph by John Francis Peters for The New Yorker When Yvon Chouinard, the climber and…

Here’s why… For the next two weeks, a Tube station in South London will create a rip in the space time continuum. The C itizens A dvertising T akeover S ervice has replaced 68 adverts in Clapham Common with pictures of cats. This isn’t a clever marketing stunt for a pet food brand, or a guerrilla…

There are three popular explanations for the clear under-representation of women in management, namely: (1) they are not capable; (2) they are not interested; (3) they are both interested and capable but unable to break the glass-ceiling: an invisible career barrier, based on prejudiced stereotypes,…

The anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth is marked by a new volume of the writer’s correspondence with his mother. PHOTOGRAPH BY RONALD DUMONT / DAILY EXPRESS / HULTON ARCHIVE / GETTY Roald Dahl, the British children’s-book author behind such inventions as an auntie-squashing peach and the mercurial…

A few days ago I caused a stir in my own tiny corner of the internet world by saying what I thought everybody already knew: If you support Trump, you are a White Supremacist. When people talked about Hillary going too far when she said half of Trump’s supporters can be put into a “ basket of…

Bleary-eyed at three in the morning, I submitted the personal essay I’d spent months crafting. When I woke up, an email was awaiting me with the subject THIS ESSAY IS EVERYTHING ! “Ur writing is srsly #OnFleek!” wrote the editor. “I need 2 tweak a little and then we can publish it on the site.…

The consequences of monetizing your bliss Edness Wilkens, a secretary at the U.S. Mint in Washington D.C., was also an avid coin collector in 1938. (Harris & Ewing Collection/Library of Congress) My great aunt loved to press flowers. She lived in the Northeast corner of California — the part nobody…

ONE puzzle of the world is that religions often don’t resemble their founders. Jesus never mentioned gays or abortion but focused on the sick and the poor, yet some Christian leaders have prospered by demonizing gays. Muhammad raised the status of women in his time, yet today some Islamic clerics…

When 14-year-old Brian O’Neill of Washington, D.C., wanted to find out what his friends had been up to over summer vacation, he did something radical: He asked them. Unlike most kids his age, Brian isn’t on social media. He doesn’t scroll through his friends’ Instagram shots or post his own, nor…

Rodrigo Benavides At 5am, after a night of drinking with strangers, and pool, and fireworks in the street, and crappy pizza I was sitting in the living room with two friends. One had a serious girlfriend, and one — like me — had been single for a long time. “Being single is really hard,” I said. My…

Life used to be much simpler. When I was growing up, we got a newspaper delivered each day. I was excited to pick it up and skim the front page, sports page, and entertainment section. As I got older even the business section. I liked the fact everyone else was seeing the same news and we could…

Technology has a lot to answer for: killing old businesses , destroying the middle class , Buzzfeed. Technology in the form of the internet is especially villainous, having been accused of everything from making us dumber (paywall) to aiding dictatorships . But Michael Harris, riffing on the…

Share this Share this... Facebook Dave Eggers’ productivity never seems to pause. Apart from being the head of a publishing house, three educational charities and the most influential literary magazine in the US ( McSweeney’s ), he’s also the author of 13 books. Eggers’ first, 2000’s A Heartbreaking…

In his “First Spouse” speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Bill Clinton referred to Hillary Clinton as “my best friend.” In his calculated and comforting accent, he drew out the words, giving them a holy weight, something repeated out of a religious text, to drive home…

Why "Black" Makes Us Uncomfortable Dear fellow white people, let's have an honest talk about why we say "All Lives Matter." First of all, notice that no one was saying "All Lives Matter" before people started saying "Black Lives Matter." So "All Lives Matter" is a response to "Black Lives Matter."…

There’s not really any normal way to start a relationship. Some people go on a date, and then another date, and then another, and one day it’s just clear to both of them that they’re in a relationship. Some people start seeing each other, but they keep things black and white until a “So are we doing…

Instrumental insights … Robert Schumann. Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image I grew up loving Schumann the man as well as Schumann the composer. I still remember where I was when I first came across a volume of his letters (No 42 Ladbroke Grove, in west London, to be precise). The beauty of…

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Share This Video I first heard of Martin Strel on the documentary film festival circuit in early 2009. A film called Big River Man — about a Slovenian dude who played classical guitar for the Pope and swam the length of the world’s longest rivers — was making waves at Sundance and Edinburgh. I…

Father Dave Smith has his opponent on the ropes. Photograph: Tom Toby F ather Dave Smith’s Sunday schedule rarely wavers. He rises early to prepare the morning service at Holy Trinity Dulwich Hill, in the inner west of Sydney, and then he delivers his weekly sermon. In the afternoon, he continues to…

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In this MUNCHIES special, we meet owner Joe Cooke, great-grandson of Robert Cooke, who opened London’s first pie shop in 1862. Joe shows us how to prepare a proper plate of pie and mash, complete with an eel and parsley sauce known as liquor. WATCH NEXT: Momofuku Cooks Impossible Foods' Meat-Free…

An honest conversation about how the West treats visibly Muslim women. Image by Ayqa Khan A few years ago, I was walking down a city street when I heard a (white) someone yell something out of the window of his car. I immediately assumed that something was Islamophobic. It nearly always is. When…

I’ll never forget how exciting it was to attend my first women’s conference. The convention center was pulsing with estrogen, and it was exhilarating to be a part of a like-minded sisterhood. Sprinting from workshops to motivational keynotes featuring famous faces and wannabes, I came away inspired…

Video 100 and She Just Won't Stop She is a national champion, a former activist and a centenarian. And she runs. By NOAH REMNICK and ERICA BERENSTEIN on Publish Date April 22, 2016. Photo by Elias Jerel Williams for The New York Times. On a cloudless Sunday afternoon in April, a 100-year-old woman…