During residency, I worked hospital shifts that could last 36 hours, without sleep, often without breaks of more than a few minutes. Even writing this now, it sounds to me like I’m bragging or laying claim to some fortitude of character. I can’t think of another type of self-injury that might be…

Alex West is a millennial, does cancer research, and absolutely loves making friends on the web. Also he would like to be added to The Awl ’ s Slack channel. In lieu of plugs, he’d like to redirect readers to a friend’s staggering medical bills . This week, West spoke to me about three of his…

Deep globalization is real. Image: Farrukh If you ever go to Asia (do not do this, it is too big, and trying to comprehend it will only convince you that your mind was never meant to really comprehend

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All I had to do for the two dollars was clean Her house for a few hours after school. It was a beautiful house, too, with a plastic-covered sofa and chairs, wall-to-wall blue-and-white carpeting, a wh

A SHORT TIME AFTER my wife and I got married, my mother-in-law suggestively forgot in our apartment a brand-new paperback copy of The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller, who gives the message on Su

PHOTOGRAPH BY BEOWULF SHEEHAN “Constructed Worlds,” which appears in this week’s issue, describes am young Turkish-American woman’s first few months as a freshman at Harvard, in the mid-nineties. Does

Magic internet money—also known as cryptocurrency—is at an all-time high. The experts who watch this stuff predict that one bitcoin (the most famous cryptocurrency) will soon be worth $2,000. The big

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Hello. It’s my first day back covering technology for The Atlantic. It also marks roughly 10 years that I’ve been covering science and technology, so I’ve been thinking back to my early days at Wired

Images: Cliff , GQ Most of us, by now, have read that GQ interview with Brad Pitt . We have at least clicked through the slideshow. We have looked with our heads tilted sideways at the photographs of

Published inKANG BLOG · 5 min read· May 16, 2017 -- Today, the Atlantic published an essay the late Alex Tizon wrote about the woman who spent her life as a slave for his family and his lifelong attem

Many, if not most, of the reviews of the new season of Twin Peaks—David Lynch's surreal, small-town soap-slash-fantasy Americana noir that transformed television 25 years ago and that improbably retur

Paramore. Lindsey Byrnes/Courtesy of the artist What holds Paramore together? The beloved Tennessee band's decade-plus career is littered with false starts and laborious successes: More musicians have

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“13 Reasons Why,” the Netflix show about a beautiful teen-age girl who slits her wrists in a bathtub after recording thirteen meticulous cassette tapes detailing who is to blame, has become a runaway

A friend of mine once had a curious experience with a job interview. Excited about the possible position, she arrived five minutes early and was immediately ushered into the interview by the receptionist. Following an amicable discussion with a panel of interviewers, she was offered the job.

Cormac McCarthy is best known to the world as a writer of novels. These include Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. At the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) he is a res

Published inColetividad · 5 min read· Jan 8, 2017 -- Se existe algo que une pesquisadores, estudantes de graduação, pós-graduação, pesquisadores ou qualquer pessoa que precise coletar muitas informaçõ

¿Por qué los uruguayos son sólo 3 millones desde hace más de 30 años? Ana Pais (@_anapais)BBC Mundo 10 abril 2017 Fuente de la imagen, Getty Images Pie de foto, A lo largo de la historia, Uruguay fue

A couple of years ago, I spent the summer in Portland, Oregon, losing things. I normally live on the East Coast, but that year, unable to face another sweltering August, I decided to temporarily decam

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Josh Schwartz was just a day shy of 27 when The O.C. premiered on August 5, 2003. A Jewish kid from Providence, Rhode Island, Schwartz's first exposure to the Orange County lifestyle was at the Univer

Scott Gilbert was walking through the halls of Swarthmore when he saw the poster, from a campus religious group: “Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries about when personhood begins,”

Getting fired can be devastating, especially to a conscientious employee. As a manager in the tech startup world, where turnover can be quite high and things change fast, I’ve had to let many good peo

When sitting down to lunch at a barbecue restaurant in Manhattan the creator and star of Please Like Me, Josh Thomas, and his real-life best friend, co-writer and co-star Thomas Ward, decide that they

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On a warm morning last August, three conservationists set out for a walk in the woods in Queens. The conservationists—Sarah Charlop-Powers, Jennifer Greenfeld, and Kristie King—work for the Parks Depa

Tikitu de Jager, a coder living in Greece, wanted to learn to program in iOS. So, like a lot of us do when we want to pick up a new skill, he started watching lessons online. At the outset everything

On Tuesday afternoon, I walked into Pier 92 for the breed competitions of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, which has been held in New York City every year since 1877. For the first time in my lif

Durante a perseguição a um caminhão colorido, cheio de luzes e personagens, um garoto de bicicleta aborda o fotógrafo Felipe Larozza. Papo vai, papo vem, ele descobre que somos de São Paulo e, com um

A 1905 illustration of Emma Bovary and her daughter Berthe in Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary.”Composition by Alfred de Richemont. Engraved by Charles Chessa. The following essay was drawn from “Fra

In 1973, the Brazilian writer Raduan Nassar quit his job. After six years as editor-in-chief at the Jornal do Bairro, an influential left-wing newspaper that opposed Brazil’s military regime, he had r

52 Places to Go My Canada Canada, our No. 1 pick for this year’s 52 Places to Go list, spans millions of square miles. It also contains multitudes, not just of people and locations, but of memories. W

As the daughter of a senior colonel in China’s People’s Liberation Army, Ren Futong has lived all 17 years of her life in a high-walled military compound in northern Beijing. No foreigners are allowed

Image: brett lohmeyer In this letter , you jokingly (I think) say that people who like to run are “crazy and cannot be reasoned with.” The thing is, though, I am one of those people — I like running a

[dropcap]These[/dropcap] days, the preferred method of coming out for celebrities is a glossy magazine cover or, barring the adequate amount of fame, a meticulously worded social media post. But when

Andrew Kelly TPX/Reuters Protesters outside Trump Tower the day after the election, New York City, November 9, 2016 “Thank you, my friends. Thank you. Thank you. We have lost. We have lost, and this i

We didn’t see this year coming, but we heard it from all sides. In Signal & Noise 2016, you’ll find the way we made sense out of all of that sound. On “A Burning Hill,” the final song on Mitski Miyawa

In October of 1955, a marketing researcher at Ford named Robert Young wrote the poet Marianne Moore a curious letter. Ford had designed a new car, which it hoped would revolutionize the industry, and it was struggling to find a good name. Young said that the options his division had come up with…