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…

A lesser-known artist you love makes a new recording — say, the hip-hop group Clipping or the Chicago punk band Mace or the electronic composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith . You feel you have to graft it onto your life. How does that go for you these days? Does streaming from Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal…

RIO DE JANEIRO — The great-grandmother who could pass as Barbara Bush’s kid sister waded through the stands at Olympic Stadium on Sunday night, trying to get close enough to congratulate the South African runner Wayde van Niekerk, who had just captured the gold medal in the 400 meters and broken one…

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Illustration by Nate Kitch T he world can cope with 7 or even 10 billion people. But only if we stop eating meat. Livestock farming is the most potent means by which we amplify our presence on the planet. It is the amount of land an animal-based diet needs that makes it so destructive. An analysis…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Among the most enigmatic features of Jamaica, an island of only 2.8 million people, is its astonishing supremacy in running. Currently, the world’s fastest man and woman are both Jamaicans. Nineteen of the 26 fastest times ever recorded in 100 meter races were by Jamaicans. The…

What do literary tourists look for when they visit the British Isles? Often it’s the quaint, old-fashioned bookshops that provide the perfect excuse to browse uninterrupted and to disconnect from the world. Until recently, the trend for barista-made coffee and high-speed Wi-Fi was considered by some…

Sex, lies and YouTube: The predatory side of internet fame Sex, lies and YouTube: The predatory side of internet fame It only took one interaction for April Fletcher to get sucked in. It was at the E3 conference in 2011, and Fletcher was there for work. At the time, she didn’t really know what…

Y ou can tell a lot about a person by watching him lose. I did not suggest Ping-Pong specifically because I thought Jonah Hill would lose at it, but rather because his initial suggestion for an interview activity — tennis — presented logistical complications: specifically, the problem of trying to…

A little thing like capitalization can be a big deal Can you spot the differences with the messages above? The left side has a few more capital letters than the right side. Big O, little o. Who cares, right? Well, if you write for an app or website, you should care. A little thing like…

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When physical fitness meets the literary life. From a poster for the Works Progress Administration’s Recreation Project, ca. 1936. Young people are a mess. They eat the crappiest fast food, make a point of drinking only to excess, barely sleep, indulge in all sorts of chemicals—and yet, given even a…

Image: Ventral is Golden. There is the language adults use with each other and the language they use with children, which, in linguistics, is known as “child-directed” or “caretaker” speech. Caretaker speech obeys a separate grammar from adult speech, with diminutive inflections and suffixes. It…

The moral high ground of food just shifted a little bit. Using biophysical simulation models to compare 10 eating patterns, researchers found that eating fewer animal products will increase the number of people that can be supported by existing farmland. But as it turns out, eliminating animal…

Nope. I didn't see it. Not live, as it unfolded, not Friday morning, as the spin kept rolling in. I have my limits, and my limit is voluntarily watching Donald Trump officially accept the Republican nomination for president of the United States. And over the next few months, I promise to not watch a…

W hen Steve first came to my consulting room, it was hard to square the shambling figure slumped low in the chair opposite with the young dynamo who, so he told me, had only recently been putting in 90-hour weeks at an investment bank. Clad in baggy sportswear that had not graced the inside of a…

On her sweat-stained road to Rio, Greek-American distance runner Alexi Pappas has learned that success can be measured in messy moments. After training with her new Greek Olympic team in Karpenisi, Pappas is spending her final days leading up to the Olympics training in Mammoth Lakes, California.…

Photo by Derek Keats If you had asked 22-year-old me what my “career aspirations” were, I would have looked at you blankly and then casually changed the subject to what programs you’d recommend to model cute 3D bunnies for a video game, or whether the writers of Alias would be so devious as to ship…

A journalist from the Times called the Olympic rematch between Johnny Hayes and Dorando Pietri “the most spectacular foot race that New York has ever witnessed.” Photograph by David Lees / Corbis On Sunday, more than fifty thousand runners will mass behind the starting line of the New York City…

Share this Share this... Facebook Stepping into Natasha Khan’s East London home feels transformative. Outside, the morning sky is filled with low-hanging clouds, the heat oppressive in its humidity. Inside, save for the sound of Joni Mitchell’s Clouds wafting from a turntable in the study, a calming…

What family means to the world’s longest-married couple after 88 years together Kartari Chand, aged 101, and Karam Chand, 109, have the world’s longest known marriage. After 88 years together, their relationship and their family – including eight children, 26 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren…

Get Motivated Get Motivated Procrastination's main instigator? Insecurity. 0 Richard Petty , a psychology professor at Ohio State University has spent decades studying confidence. He defines confidence as this: the stuff that turns thoughts into action. Why? Because confidence first turns our…

Get Motivated Get Motivated Will we ever decouple perceived effort and long hours with our rewards system? 0 As you sink into the couch, or slide onto the barstool, at the end of an exhausting workday, it’s hard not to experience the warm glow of self-congratulation. After all, you put in the hours,…

The toast of this year’s American festival circuit, Thunder Road triumphantly debuts online today after winning awards at Sundance, SXSW, Los Angeles, and Palm Springs, including the coveted Jury Prize at both Sundance and LA. It’s hard to get stronger festival validation than what Thunder Road has…

Streetwear Supreme exists within the nebulous genre of streetwear, which emerged from the nexus of workwear brands, athletic gear, and hip-hop style in the early 1980s. Nike released its Air Jordans in 1984, just as Run DMC repped Adidas and LL Cool J popularized Kangol bucket hats. Also in 1984, a…