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We’re living through a bath bubble
With freestanding tubs, we’re embracing self-care, seeking status, and perhaps feeling a little lonely.
The Champion Who Picked a Date to Die
Knowing she had the legal right to die helped Marieke Vervoort live her life. It propelled her to medals at the Paralympics. But she could never get away from the pain.
False Idol — Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump
On the morning of September 29th, six weeks before the 2016 election, Donald Trump was in a conference room at Trump Tower in New York talking to leaders of the religious right about sex-reassignm…
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Why Is Chinese Sci-Fi Everywhere Now? Ken Liu Knows
The translator Ken Liu has done more than anyone to bridge the gap between Chinese science fiction and American readers.
Do Butterflies Challenge the Meaning of Species? - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Hybridization, it turns out, plays a pivotal role in how life forms evolve. The tree of life may never look the same.Photograph by…
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Best Screenplay Goes to the Algorithms - Issue 79: Catalysts - Nautilus
Ross Goodwin has had an extraordinary career. After playing about with computers as a child, he studied economics, then became a speech…
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How Can I Recharge My Depleted Motivation?
Even the most motivated people run out of steam sometimes. Maybe you’re exhausted or feel as though your creativity has been depleted, but for whatever reason, you can’t get your act together. Here are a few strategies for recharging your motivation.
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Being a Remote Worker Sucks - Long Live the Remote Worker
I've been a 100% remote worker at Microsoft for just about 5 years now. My last two jobs were both 7 year long gigs, so ...
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Adam Sandler’s Everlasting Shtick
Skip to contentSkip to site index He became America’s most reliable comic star without ever leaving his comfort zone. So what’s he doing in this year’s most…
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An architectural ski tour: Les Arcs, 50 years on
Full tilt … Charlotte Perriand’s La Cascade is cantilevered into the hillside.Photograph: ©AChP ‘C hocolate box” isn’t a term you’d associate with the Les Arcs…
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On Discord With the Boys Scalping Harry Styles Tickets
Hanging out on Discord with today’s teen-idol ticket scalpers—average guys, no bots
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The 'Mess of Complexity' in Directing Your Porn Star Partner
LOS ANGELES—Kayden Kross is crouched on a stool, legs tightly crossed, leaning toward a pair of monitors reflecting the feeds from two cameras capturing a profusion of acts and parts, a simulacrum of sexual abandon. An industrial warehouse space in downtown Los Angeles has been transformed into a fictional sexual underground with spotlit drifts of ethereal smoke. On the screens: hands, breasts, butts, vaginas, penis, tongues collide in a blur of seemingly endless permutations and possibility. M...
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A Nude ‘Playboy’ Photo Has Been a Mainstay in Testing Tech for Decades
The documentary ‘Losing Lena’ is about the many small ways in which women are told they don’t belong in tech
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The Eight-Hour Workday Is a Counterproductive Lie
What was once a socialist dream has become every knowledge worker’s nightmare. It's time to unmake the modern myth of productivity.
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The 8-Hour Workday Is a Counterproductive Lie
What was once a socialist dream has become every knowledge worker’s nightmare. It's time to unmake the modern myth of productivity.
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Successfully Merging the Work of 1000+ Developers
Collaboration with a large team is challenging, and even more so if it’s on a single codebase, like the Shopify monolith. Shopify changes 40 times a day. We follow a trunk-based development workflow and merge around 400 commits to master daily. There are three rules that govern how we deploy safely, but they were hard to maintain at our growing scale. Soft conflicts broke master, slow deployments caused large drift between master and production, and the time to deploy emergency merges slowed due...
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The Suburban Office Park, an Aging Relic, Seeks a Comeback
After losing tenants to revitalized downtowns over the last decade, developers are adding modern amenities to secluded campuses.
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How These Niche Stores Are Surviving the Retail Apocalypse
Cash registers, game cartridges, pencils, rubber stamps. There’s a passion — and apparently a market — for all things analog. Want an experience other than…
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The Final Frontier
My father and I had already done all the talking we were ever going to do. Illustration by Mickey Duzyj Ensign Spock, a young half-Vulcan science officer fresh…
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The Three Personalities of America
People in different regions of the U.S. have measurably different psychological profiles.
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Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'
More managerial jobs generate more meetings, but they are not about making decisions, says a study.
