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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.
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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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A Deadly Day of Chaos at the Top of Mount Everest
It was one of the most arresting viral photos of the year: a horde of climbers clogged atop Mount Everest. But it only begins to capture the realities of what transpired that day at 29,000 feet. These are the untold accounts of the people who were there.
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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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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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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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Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'
More managerial jobs generate more meetings, but they are not about making decisions, says a study.
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The Secret to Enjoying a Long Winter
I grew up in Wisconsin, and have lived in Iowa, Minnesota, and New York. Except for a two-year stint in the Bay Area, I've exper
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How quantum teleportation works
An explanation of how quantum teleportation works, and why it matters
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An Oral History Of Blade Runner's 2019 Los Angeles, Because The Future Has Arrived
It took place in November 2019. Pretty soon, Blade Runner will take place in the past.
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Why the Boeing 737 will never take the place of the 757
I’m depressed. I’m depressed because the word on the street is that Boeing will not be moving forward with its so-called “new midsize airplane,” or NMA, also known as the 797. That’s the rumor, at any rate. If built, the 797 would bridge the range and capacity gap between the narrowbody 737 family and the …
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Tech and Liberty
The First Amendment is not about a law, but rather a culture — specifically a culture of liberty. It is essential to tech, and in this context, Facebook is mostly right about political ads (but can…
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The Rise (and Stall) of the Boba Generation
For many first- and second-generation Asian Americans, bubble tea is far more than just a drink
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Your Office Chair Is Hurting You
But also, forget standing desks. Try ‘active sitting,’ according to a trauma surgeon who wants to cure sitting disease.
