Here’s Why Athletes Love to Suffer
The effort paradox explains everything from mountain climbing to buying IKEA furniture
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Movies Every Physics Student Should Watch
Biographical, time travel, quantum physics and philosophy films
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The Rise And Fall Of Online Culture Wars - Astral Codex Ten
How do Internet atheism and Internet feminism help us understand the current cultural moment?
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The best questions I ask myself — The Sunday Soother
Hello Recomendo readers! You can subscribe to my Sunday Soother newsletter here Happy Sunday, Soothers. Last week I promised to share with you four practices I've begun using this year to genuinely actually engage with fear and begin to release it. I have this whole Sooth
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Efficiency is the Enemy
If you ever find yourself stressed, overwhelmed, sinking into stasis despite wanting to change, or frustrated when you can’t respond to new opportunities, you need more slack in your life. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it.
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“Congratulations, You Killed Osama bin Laden.”
The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room.
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A Meta-Scientific Perspective on “Thinking: Fast and Slow
2011 was an important year in the history of psychology, especially social psychology. First, it became apparent that one social psychologist had faked results for dozens of publications ( Second, …
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Simplify Your Time Management With the 'Rule of 4'
There are hard limits to what your brain can manage in a day. Ignore them at your peril.
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If Nothing Lasts, Then What Is Happiness?
A great sign of progress is being able to find peace in the down moments, to not get swallowed up in sorrow because things are not going your way, but instead to find balance in the understanding of impermanence, the knowing that nothing can last forever.
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A Backdoor Lets the Immune System Monitor the Brain
A newfound hub of immune system activity at the back of the brain solves a century-old puzzle.
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Why Nonnative English Speakers Actually Speak The Best English : Goats and Soda : NPR
The demand for "proper" English can be used to shut people out of spaces and opportunities. The folks at NPR's "Rough Translation" podcast have a story to tell.
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Newark cops, with reform, didn’t fire a single shot in 2020 | Moran
It's not about de-funding police. The task is to teach cops to do better, and watch them to make sure.
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Seth Rogen and the Secret to Happiness - The New York Times
Credit... Chris Buck for The New York Times Feature How the comedian (and director, writer, ceramist and weed entrepreneur) has made a career out of mining the…
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Why is Everything Liberal? - Richard Hanania's Newsletter
Cardinal Preferences Explain Why All Institutions are Woke
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Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
Rocky Mountain metros are growing both despite and because of the pandemic | United States
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The Third Age of JavaScript
A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now will look totally unrecognizable
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You Are Not ‘Behind’
Have you ever felt like you were behind? I used to feel that way. I would read articles about a 26-year-old entrepreneur with a billion-dollar company or a 16-year-old kid who invented a new kind o…
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Why are so many Christians in Colombia converting to Orthodox Judaism?
One photographer set out to document their growing community.
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Is This the Most Interesting Idea in All of Science?
Neurons might contain something incredible within them.
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The evolutionary reason why there are 6 types of human screams
There are six types of human screams, a new study finds.
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The secret to being witty, revealed
Some of us are just not that funny. But writer James Geary's new book, Wit's End, shows how to cultivate wit, turning communication into play.
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China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline
The country’s leaders see their moment, and are seizing it | China
