The Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation - Issue 70: Variables - Nautilus
In 2011, a friend of mine in college asked me if I’d read The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan…
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How translation obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible – Robert Alter | Aeon Ideas
No translation of the Bible has tried to maintain both the meaning and the melody of the Hebrew scriptures – until now
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Why Does Every Tech Ad Use the Same Song? Because of This Man.
You're already listening to music by Steven Gutheinz, you just don't know it.
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Echos - Issue 68: Context - Nautilus
Before Corrine’s husband abandoned her in Berlin, he liked to say that her name reminded him of the word “corrupt.” But ending…
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How We’ll Forget John Lennon - Issue 68: Context - Nautilus
A few years ago a student walked into the office of Cesar A. Hidalgo, director of the Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab.…
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An Rx for Doctors - Issue 66: Clockwork - Nautilus
Every physician remembers their first bad case. Mine went like this. One morning, a man came into our emergency department with back…
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How Millennial Hipsters Revitalized — and Likely Destroyed — PBR
Pabst Blue Ribbon may be on its last cans. To many, the news may be like seeing a death notice and swearing that person died...
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The Oral History of the Vodka Red Bull
It’s always the guy with the hat on backward. It’s 10:30 p.m. on a Friday, he’s scanning the bar, looking for women, sometimes chewing on...
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How The X-Files invented modern television
Twenty-five years after its debut, The X-Files is that rare show that seems to exist both in the time it aired and in the present.
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Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? - Issue 65: In Plain Sight - Nautilus
Reading medieval literature, it’s hard not to be impressed with how much the characters get done—as when we read about King Harold…
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Advice from Our Food Critic: If I Have One Day in New York, Where Should I Eat?
The best course of action is to embark on a snacking tour that keeps you in Manhattan, mostly below Fourteenth Street, capped off by a light-ish dinner.
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Bracing for the Vanilla Boom
Some of Madagascar’s farmers, made wealthy by this year’s vanilla crop, will spend their cash in crazy “hot money” sprees. But their profligate spending may not be as illogical as it first appears.
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This Man Says the Mind Has No Depths - Issue 62: Systems - Nautilus
A whole lot of books on the brain are published these days and you can read yourself into a coma trying to make sense of their various…
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Is This Man the Elon Musk of E-Waste? - Issue 62: Systems - Nautilus
Eric Lundgren, the 33-year-old, fedora-wearing CEO of a major electronic waste recycling plant in Los Angeles, could be called both…
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What a Russian Smile Means
When I approach Sofiya Campbell, she regards me and my exuberant smile carefully. It’s only after we shake hands formally that,…
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The Wisdom of Running a 2,189-Mile Marathon
The limits of looking to ultramarathoners for lessons on perseverance
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Is the Chinese Language a Superstition Machine? - Issue 59: Connections - Nautilus
Every year, more than a billion people around the world celebrate Chinese New Year and engage in a subtle linguistic dance with luck.…
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The Thing That Made The Office Great Is the Same Thing That Killed It
Its TV-as-catharsis approach to the monotony of office work was groundbreaking, but the show's premise wasn't built to last more than a few seasons.
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The Classic Dinner and a Movie Date Costs Parents Too Much
Marketing professionals really want me to go on movie dates. The pressure is always there and worse during Oscar season when marketing professional are allowed to insinuate that going on movie dates would help me better myself in some way. And, look, they might. Date nights are wonderful. Friends say so. Scientists say so. Therapists... View Article
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Breaking Bad became one of the best TV shows ever by borrowing a trick from Shakespeare
The show balanced improvisation and careful planning thanks to its overarching structure.
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The Emotional Legacy of The Breakfast Club
John Hughes’s coming-of-age classic feels dated in retrospect, but the film paved the way for more character-focused teen stories.
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The Stick Is an Unsung Hero of Human Evolution - Issue 56: Perspective - Nautilus
In April 1997, at the snooker world championship held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, Ronnie O’Sullivan stepped up to the…
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Best Song Ever: "Spin the Bottle" by Juliana Hatfield
"It's like, kiss this guy you don't know and will probably never see again!"
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Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
Inside Elon Musk's world-changing plans to inhabit outer space, revolutionize high-speed transportation, reinvent cars – and find love along the way.
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The Rise of Bikepacking, A Manifesto - BIKEPACKING.com
Our unofficial/official mission statement… and why we think bikepacking is one of the best things to happen to the bike industry.
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Highest Hundred - Interview With The Long Ranger - BIKEPACKING.com
Justin Simoni, "The Long Ranger," bikepacked and climbed Colorado's 100 highest peaks. The self-supported, non-stop trip required over 380K' of ascent...
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The Last Invention of Man - Issue 53: Monsters - Nautilus
The Omega Team was the soul of the company. Whereas the rest of the enterprise brought in the money to keep things going, by various…
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How to Choose Wisely - Issue 52: The Hive - Nautilus
Sparkling or still water? Organic or conventional avocados? Four stars or three-and-a-half? The modern world sets loose upon us a…
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The best antihero dramas aren’t vicarious thrill rides. They’re morality plays in reverse.
The recent glut of bad antihero dramas makes it worth remembering what makes for a good antihero drama.
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Jon Ronson on bespoke porn: ‘Nothing is too weird. We consider all requests’
Turned on by gremlins? Excited by ketchup or rare stamps? There’s a porn film for that. Inside California’s new growth industry
