How to read a book a week
In February, I read Belle Beth Cooper’s Fast Company piece "How I became a morning person, read more books, and learned a language in a year," which listed the four steps to assuming a new hobby:...
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How To Survive The Cascadia Tsunami
“Thirteen thousand people will die in the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami,” reads Kathryn Schulz’s now-infamous New Yorker article. “Everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.” Turns out a very similar event occurred in Chile 55 years ago. What wisdom can its survivors share with residents of the Northwest?
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We Hung Out with the Hells Angels to See What They're All About in 2016
The police still recognize the biker brotherhood as an organized crime group, but to me they just looked like a friendly group of guys with face tattoos.
Are You Ready to Meet Your Fixer Uppers?
How Chip and Joanna Gaines are renovating Waco’s reputation, one home at a time.
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Craft Beer Has Killed Day Drinking
Day drinking as we know it is dead, and that death has a lot to do with the rise of craft beer and the cost of that product compared to its lighter peers.
Why don't black and white Americans live together?
In many parts of the US, Americans of different races aren't neighbours - they don't go to the same schools, they don't always have access to the same services.
I Used to Be a Human Being
An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
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Rural Indian Girls Chase Big-City Dreams - NYTimes.com
BANGALORE, India — The factory floor is going full throttle when the new girls walk in. Everywhere is the thrumming of sewing machines, the hum of fans, the…
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The Bangladeshi Traffic Jam That Never Ends - NYTimes.com
Of all the dysfunctions that plague the world’s megacities, none may be more pernicious than bad (really, really bad) traffic. Sitting still in Dhaka, where bad…
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Barack Obama and Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Ultimate Exit Interview
OVAL TEAM The 44th president and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin share a West Wing tête-à-tête. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz. His presidency is winding down. A…
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The Free-Time Paradox in America
And why have so many low-income men stopped looking for work entirely?
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The Revolutionary Concept of Standard Sizes Only Dates to the 1920s
Nearly everything in your home is a certain size, thanks to German architect Ernst Neufert.
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How Tech Companies Disrupted Silicon Valley’s Restaurant Scene
Anthony Strong, right, deconstructing a roasted pig at Pizzeria Delfina in Palo Alto, Calif. Jason Henry for The New York Times PALO ALTO, Calif. — It wasn’t so…
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Religion without belief
Most Japanese reject religious belief while embracing multiple forms of ritual practice. Are they religious or secular?
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Seattle’s homeless problem is becoming a problem for the tourism industry
When you look around Seattle, you can’t help but notice the homeless encampments on Interstate 5 in the Jungle or in parks and greens spaces throughout the city.
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Organisms might be quantum machines
Few of us really understand the weird world of quantum physics – but our bodies might take advantage of quantum properties
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As New Mexico struggles, where is Susana Martinez?
A recent report on the state of New Mexico’s economy confirms what has been apparent to even casual observers for quite some time: we are still in a deep recession going on eight years, and decent-paying jobs are hard to come by. The Legislative Council Service issued the results of an economic analysis showing that […]
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Forever Soldiers · thewalrus.ca
Coming home from the battlefield is hard—maybe some veterans shouldn't
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Will the skyscrapers outlast the pyramids?
Egypt’s pyramids were the skyscrapers of their day – and they are still standing 5,000 years later. Could today’s tallest buildings outlast them? Zaria Gorvett reports.
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Taking mental health discussions off the bench at work
How one startup is helping employees combat stigmas around stress
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The Death of Flair : As Friday’s Goes Minimalist, What Happens to the Antiques?
Tall windows flood the vast dining room with natural light, illuminating a minimalist mix of rectangular and round tables—each ringed by t...
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The Death of Flair: As Friday's Goes Minimalist, What Happens to the Antiques?
Tall windows flood the vast dining room with natural light, illuminating a minimalist mix of rectangular and round tables—each ringed by t...
