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The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers
Fatal crashes. A door blowout. Grounded planes. Inside the citizen-led, obsessive campaign to hold Boeing accountable and prevent the next disaster.
Lauren Smiley
30 Hours in a Hurricane, on a Race With No Course
Why would hundreds of people trek overnight through the wilderness with nothing but a compass? Because it’s the best feeling in the world.
Doug Bock Clark
In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king
Noah Musingku made a fortune with a Ponzi scheme and then retreated to a remote armed compound in the jungle, where he still commands the loyalty of his Bougainville subjects
Sean Williams
Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process
The long read: Canonisation has long been a way for the Catholic church to shape its image. The Vatican is preparing to anoint its first millennial saint, but how does it decide who is worthy?
Linda Kinstler
My Final Days on the Maine Coast
Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, writer Joseph Monninger meditates on life, death, and beauty from his small seaside cottage down east.
Down East Magazine
How My Trip to Quit Sugar Quickly Became a Journey Into Hell
For my whole life, I’ve been a hard-core sweets junkie. Could a spa help me quit in a week?
Caity Weaver
The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell
Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut, will it have to betray its first patients—type 1 diabetics?
Virginia Heffernan
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
Derek Thompson
They Missed Their Cruise Ship. That Was Only The Beginning.
A group of nine passengers were stranded on a remote island in Africa. They spent seven days trying to catch back up with the boat.
Bridget Read
Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place’
We need physical spaces for serendipitous, productivity-free conversation.
Allie Conti
The Journalist Who the Nazis Could Not Silence
The Third Reich feared Carl von Ossietzky so much they sent him to a concentration camp. Could winning the Nobel Peace Prize save his life?
Kate McQueen
Lake Tahoe’s Bear Boom
The vacation hot spot has been overrun by people—whose habits are drawing fast-moving animals with sharp claws and insatiable appetites.
Paige Williams
How Las Vegas Became the Weirdest, Wildest, and Most Futuristic City in America
New food, new art, new sports, new heat, and, yes, new Sphere.
Redshirt the Boys
Why boys should start school a year later than girls
Richard V. Reeves
Drowning in Slop
A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse.
Max Read
The Benefits of Emodiversity
Becoming attuned to your more obscure emotions is good for you. So get over your stenahoria and embrace your amae.
David Brooks
Yes, Listening to Music Is Therapy | The Walrus
Music reduces pain, increases resilience, and reconnects Alzheimer’s patients with their memories. It’s time for science to take it seriously
Daniel J. Levitin
The Unending Allure Of High Mountains | NOEMA
A century after George Mallory’s disappearance on Everest, why do his words, “Because it’s there,” remain an indelible explanation for the human obsession with high places?
Henry Wismayer
End the Phone-Based Childhood Now
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.
Jonathan Haidt
Teach the Conflicts - The American Scholar
It’s natural—and right—to foster disagreement in the classroom
Mark Edmundson
Rewilding attachment theory by recognising Earth as a caregiver | Psyche Ideas
We are raised by people, but we are also raised by the Earth – here’s what that means for our emotional development
‘The liberating truth is: they’re probably not thinking about you’: Oliver Burkeman on how to quit people-pleasing
In an extract from his new book about making the most of our limited time on Earth, Oliver Burkeman has some top advice for those who go out of their way to accommodate others
Oliver Burkeman
When France Takes Its Clothes Off
The country has long been a haven for those who believe nudity is a virtue. A new exhibit explores the movement—and lets guests strip down themselves.
Condé Nast
Why does walking through doorways make us forget?
Forgetting why you entered a room is called the “Doorway Effect”, and it may reveal as much about the strengths of human memory, as it does the weaknesses.
Tom Stafford
Truly Humbled to Be the Author of This Article
How to flaunt your modesty online, in three easy steps
David Brooks
Can the Wisdom of Crowds Help Fix Social Media’s Trust Issue?
A new study finds that small groups of laypeople can match or surpass the work of professional fact checkers—and they can do it at scale.
The Secret, Magical Life Of Lithium | NOEMA
One of the oldest, scarcest elements in the universe has given us treatments for mental illness, ovenproof casserole dishes and electric cars. But how much do we really know about lithium?
Jacob Baynham
How Two Trailblazing Psychologists Turned the World of Decision Science Upside Down
After his book Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now?
Across the internet and in gyms everywhere, body-modifying drug use has become ubiquitous, effective and... normal. Can this really be a good thing?
What Should You Do with Your Stuff before You Die? | The Walrus
The practice of “death cleaning,” or minimizing your belongings in your twilight years, is more appealing than ever
Christina Myers
Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?
After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren’t as embedded as we think.
The Land That Doesn’t Need Ozempic
Some 43% of Americans are obese, compared with just 4.5% of Japanese people. What explains this gap?
How to have better arguments | Psyche Guides
Arguing well isn’t just about winning. A philosophical approach will help you and the other person get much more out of it
Scott Aikin & John Casey + BIO
The Next Generation of Cancer Drugs Will Be Made in Space
Injectable immunotherapy drugs can be made, in theory, but gravity prevents them from crystallizing correctly. A startup thinks the solution could be right above us.
The Squatters of Beverly Hills
After a fugitive doctor abandoned his mansion, an enterprising group of party throwers slid in, upending the lives of their wealthy neighbors.
Bridget Read
The Extraordinary Lives Of Coast Redwoods | NOEMA
Oddities, marvels and revelations proliferate in groves of the tallest trees on the planet.
Daniel Lewis
How First Contact With Whale Civilization Could Unfold
If we can learn to speak their language, what should we say?
Ross Andersen
The future of silk - Works in Progress
Silk is stronger than steel or kevlar. We are already using it to transport vaccines without cold chains and make automatically dissolving stitches. What else could it be used for?
Hiawatha Bray
The strange and turbulent global world of ant geopolitics | Aeon Essays
Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own
Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?
The Seven Laws of Pessimism
If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?
Maarten Boudry
Why Your Next Trip Should Be to a Blue Zone
This year, travel to one of the healthiest places on earth. We asked Blue Zones expert Dan Buettner for tips on visiting these five destinations, and ways to incorporate longevity habits into your own life.
Stephanie Pearson
The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave
Beatriz Flamini liked to be alone so much that she decided to live underground—and pursue a world record. The experience was gruelling and surreal.
The Quest to Pick Up the Lost Lifting Stones of Ireland
A strongman is on a mission to uncover and lift these forgotten tests of strength.
Banking the Most Valuable Currency: Time
In a “time bank,” members accumulate bankable hours, for instance by babysitting or doing repairs, and get “repaid” with assistance when they need it, usually later in life.
Michaela Haas
The Joy of Underperforming
The idea of life having “seasons” has become a common way of talking yourself through a sudden upheaval.
Olga Khazan
The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet
Laced across the cold depths of the world’s oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives.
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You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
As researchers try to make sense of “open-label” placebos—fake drugs that proudly announce their fakeness—the mysterious effect is starting to show up beyond the world of medicine.
Six bull sharks inadvertently made their home on an Australian golf course. Then they vanished | CNN
For golfers, staying out of the water could be the difference between winning and losing. At one course in Australia, it was the difference between life and death.
Jack Bantock
Forget Growth. Optimize for Resilience
The tech economy is all about getting those next 10,000 users. What if it maximized something else for a change?
What If Money Expired? | NOEMA
A long-forgotten German economist argued that society and the economy would be better off if money was a perishable good. Was he an anarchist crank or the prophet of a better world?
Jacob Baynham
What’s With All the Different Salts? Here’s How to Use Them. (Published 2024)
Table salt, kosher salt, finishing salt: The choice can be confusing, but we offer a little explanation and advice.
Melissa ClarkReporting from Aigues-Mortes, France; Maldon, England; and Portland, Ore.
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