Five Lessons in Creativity From Metallica
The artistic process, as revealed by demos, alternative takes, and abandoned cuts of a heavy-metal classic
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Why I Mountain-Bike for My Mental Health
Growing up as a Mexican American kid in an anti-immigrant environment, Eric Arce began a yearslong struggle with anxiety and depression. In this essay, he explains how biking has helped him.
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‘Take it easy, nothing matters in the end’: William Shatner at 90, on love, loss and Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner | The Guardian
His career has taken him from Shakespeare to Star Trek – and soon he will be swimming with sharks on TV. He discusses longevity, tragedy, friendship and success
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Stowaway Continues an Argument Sci-Fi Fans Have Been Having for Decades
There’s a long, and problematic, history behind Stowaway.
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Why a Disgraced Musician Is Dominating the Charts
After saying a racial slur and being exiled from radio, Morgan Wallen has become only more popular. What’s going on?
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Slack Is the Right Tool for the Wrong Way to Work | The New Yorker
If Slack, which improves a fundamentally flawed approach to collaboration, is worth tens of billions of dollars, imagine the value in fixing the underlying problems.
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How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters - Issue 94: Evolving - Nautilus
Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Outbreak” issue…
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The New Comedy of American Decline
"Ted Lasso" and "Emily in Paris" are works of escapism that grapple with the inescapable.
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The Abolition Movement
What we talk about when we talk about addressing the savage roots of policing: justice and safety for everyone.
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Americans Are Living in an Alternate History
As the pandemic has raged on, popular culture has found new ways to ask an old question: What could have been instead?
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Ask a Sane Person: Jia Tolentino on Practicing the Discipline of Hope
"I want the courage to need very little and demand a lot."
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America Is Officially in ‘Fuck It’ Mode
When doing the right thing is too hard, we give up and let fate run wild
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The Paranoid Style in American Entertainment
How the mechanisms of reality TV taught us to trust no one
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How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters - Issue 84: Outbreak - Nautilus
I’m no stranger to forced isolation. For the better part of my 20s, I served as a nuclear submarine officer running secret missions…
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The American restaurant is on life support
We’re eating at street-corner stalls, food trucks, and the grocery. Restaurants might not be here when we get back.
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Baseball, Fiction, and Life: Roger Angell’s Era-Spanning Career at The New Yorker
It is tempting to view Roger Angell, who is now ninety-nine, as a keeper of this publication’s institutional memory. But he’s more likely to say, “I learned something truly amazing today!”
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Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - Issue 80: Aliens - Nautilus
A spacefaring species could easily settle the entire Milky Way given billions of years. Yet the fact is that there is no obvious one…
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The Age of Instagram Face
How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.
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Fighting Crime With San Diego’s Real-Life Superhero Squad | MEL Magazine
It’s a cool night in downtown San Diego on the weekend before Halloween, and I’m standing outside the Hall of Justice in an astronaut costume,...
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An Unfiltered Oral History of the Marlboro Man
“Mild as May” That was the original advertising slogan for Marlboro cigarettes when they first hit the market in the 1920s. Decades before the rugged...
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Why millennials and Gen Z love "Friends"
This Gen X sitcom endures because it sells younger fans on the appeal of working through life in second gear
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I Tried to Live Like Joe Rogan
He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.
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Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?
He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.
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Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man - Issue 74: Networks - Nautilus
Today the alkaline desert is quiet. The roar of techno music and flamethrowers has been replaced with the soft clink of rakes and…
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How the ‘Octochamps’ Broke the National Spelling Bee
As the quality of the top contestants has ramped up dramatically in recent years, the national competition has struggled to keep up.
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The Ancient Rites That Gave Birth to Religion - Issue 72: Quandary - Nautilus
The invention of religion is a big bang in human history. Gods and spirits helped explain the unexplainable, and religious belief…
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Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden
Women are increasingly playing the role of best friend, lover, and on-call therapist to their male partners.
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Jeopardy Wasn’t Designed for a Contestant Like James Holzhauer
'James’s performance, I’m sure, is causing grief for an accountant somewhere.'
