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People talk a lot about prolonging their lives through medicine or technology, but most ignore ways we can get more from the time we have. You can add time by noticing time. And I don’t mean “get more
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In My Mountain Town, We’re Preparing for Dark Times As the contagion spreads, we look ahead to winter and wonder whom we can safely pull close. Oct. 17, 2020 The North Cascades in Washington, mid-Octo
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Intelligence is associated with coming up with more convincing bullshit and with being a better liar, but not associated with a better ability to recognize one’s own bias. Photograph by ArTono / Shutt
“ How to Build a Life ” is a biweekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. You live in the future. So do I. We all do. It’s human nature. However, there are times—such
This interview was recorded earlier this year and originally appeared on The Observer Effect ; it has only been lightly edited for formatting here. TABLE OF CONTENTS On productivity Let’s get into it.
“I will never have to work out again!” Twitch streamer Imane “Pokimane” Anys said on her stream Sunday. She zoomed the camera out to show her full form: waved brown hair, enormous teak eyes, and a cro
The cosmos is starting to look a bit weird. For a few years now, cosmologists have been troubled by a discrepancy in how fast the universe is expanding. They know how fast it should be going, based on
The Great Read Out There Is There a Black Hole in Our Backyard? Astrophysicists have recently begun hatching plans to find out just how weird Planet Nine might be. An artist’s concept of Planet Nine,
I’ve never felt less stoic. I’m essentially a walking raw nerve. I’ve just gotten divorced, ejecting from a 15-year marriage straight into a global pandemic, a combination of facts that’s so theatrica
This piece is based on this BBC Reel video produced by Andreas Hartman, and is a text reversion of this radio piece for the Rulebreakers series from BBC World Service in collaboration with the Sundanc
Penicillin is probably the most important discovery of the last 100 years. It’s saved somewhere between 80 million and 200 million lives. Your great grandparents would have found it indistinguishable
See discussion on Hacker News If it's a Nice Problem to Have, Don't Solve it Now When building a product from scratch you need to do a lot of hard things all at once, with limited resources. The stand
During the past five months, many prognosticators have prognosticated about how the coronavirus pandemic will transform politics , work , travel , education , and other domains. Less sweepingly, but j
The call for individuals and organizations alike to invest in learning and development has never been more insistent. The World Economic Forum recently declared a reskilling emergency as the world fac
NEW YORK , Aug. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Americans are continuing to renounce their citizenship at the highest levels on record, according to research by the Enrolled Agents and accountants Bambridge A
The time we’re living through will one day become history. This is always true, of course, but the coronavirus pandemic has, perhaps more than any other event in living memory, made people hyperaware
I n March, tens of millions of American workers—mostly in white-collar industries such as tech, finance, and media—were thrust into a sudden, chaotic experiment in working from home. Four months later
Mentors generally have the best of intentions. They want to help, they want to teach, they want to give back to the community oftentimes because they received assistance and mentorship to reach the le
I returned to Paris with my family three months after President Emmanuel Macron had ordered one of the world’s most aggressive national quarantines, and one month after France had begun to ease itself
Welcome to the first ever interview on 'The Observer Effect'. When planning for these series of interviews with interesting leaders and institutions, there was only one person I had in mind to have he
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We are in a period of extended turmoil that might informally be called the “omni-crisis.” There is no clear resolution in sight to the COVID-19 pandemic and the various material, psychological, social
By Jared Diamond Updated May 22, 2020 3:36 pm ET The Covid-19 pandemic is an almost unique phenomenon in world history. The only precedent for its rapid spread to every continent, killing people every
L OCKDOWN HAS delivered a nasty shock to academia, with universities around the world closing for the summer term, disrupting the plans of millions of students. Business schools are suffering along wi
Critic’s Notebook In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found Roy Lichtenstein's "Still Life with Clock and Roses," 1975. Credit... Estate of Roy Lichtenstein Almost as soon as it appeared, Covid-19 seeded
"That is not only not right; it is not even wrong" - Wolfgang Pauli A lot of really important technologies started out looking like expensive, impractical toys. It doesn’t work, isn’t useful, and the
The term ikigai is a succinct way to describe what gets you up in the morning – be it work, family or a well-loved hobby – much like a prosaic version of the French raison d'être. Our coverage during
How the Buddha Got His Face His image is so commonplace that you could believe it must always have existed — yet for six centuries after his death, he was never once depicted in human form. A headless
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‘Sadness’ and Disbelief From a World Missing American Leadership The coronavirus pandemic is shaking bedrock assumptions about U.S. exceptionalism. This is perhaps the first global crisis in more than
The Interpreter What Will Our New Normal Feel Like? Hints Are Beginning to Emerge Fear of others may linger long after the pandemic is over. But so may a new sense of community. Alone at Paris’s City
I heard Scott Galloway say recently that COVID-19 was going to act like an accelerator to a number of big changes. The comment vibrated my center and reminded me of something Andrew Yang said in his b
A lot of people are waiting for the one, two, and three that need to happen to make everyone relax and return to normal. The idea is that once we get a SARS-COVID-2 vaccine, or treatment, or combinati
Learn to Argue Productively Arguments don’t have to be heated, explosive moments. As long as everyone’s in good faith, everyone can learn from one another. Arguments don’t have to be heated, explosive
The first thing you should know? The dates, as we know them, have nothing to do with safety. J. Kenji López-Alt explains. Credit... Jonathan Carlson By Jan. 24, 2023 Leer en español Have you been reac
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