chill Mobile mindfulness: An unscientific review of the Headspace meditation app I once scoffed at heady mindfulness practices. Now, I meditate every day. Valentina Palladino – Dec 1, 2017 8:00 am | 67 Credit: Headspace Credit: Headspace Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn more…

Books And why we insist on blaming them for it. November 27, 2017 A generation has inherited a world without being able to live in it.Illustration by Adrian Tomine Imagine, as I often do, that our world were to end tomorrow, and that alien researchers many years in the future were tasked with…

There is a specific queer loneliness in the music of Sufjan Stevens that has made him a central cultural figure to a generation of queer people—cis gay men, especially—with an affinity for melancholy.

This story is part of the Internet Time Machine, a collection about life online in the 2010s. I went on dates. I went on a Tinder date with a schoolteacher who read me poetry aloud on his faded leather couch, but he seemed a little too earnest for me, so I went on a Hinge date with a musician who…

I started my meme account, @sensualmemes, on Instagram in the spring of 2016. At the time I was in an on-again, off-again relationship with someone who had sexually abused and emotionally traumatized me, and was attempting to navigate young adulthood against all of the other roadblocks women…

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Arquivo pessoal “Oi! O Fofão está no Hospital das Clínicas. Amputaram o dedo dele, que estava gangrenado. Ele tem surtos, quer bater em todo mundo e tem que ser amarrado porque arranca todos os acesso

The Latvian student was struggling with his assignment. I had asked all the students in my writing class at Maastricht University in the Netherlands—where instruction was in English—to translate one of their stories into their native language. Remove Ads The Latvian student, B., was one of 23 who…

It’s useful​ to know on opening Hanya Yanagihara’s second novel, A Little Life – currently, a month before the winner is announced, the 3/1 favourite to win the Man Booker Prize – just how much research she did into the experiences and psychological background of Jude St Francis, the book’s central…

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. “What we mean by accusations of escapism, what escapism is, what it flees and seeks, how it operates, what modes it finds besides the literary—such issues could justify a treatise.” –Robert B. Heilman, “Escape and Escapism: Varieties of…

If you are ever captured in the jungle by a group of men and women who taunt you, insisting they will soon devour your flesh, there are a few tricks you can use to avoid this fate. First, you can pretend to be French. It will probably help if you wail in agony, like a baby, leading them to wonder if…

St. Vincent's latest record, Masseduction, is available Oct. 13. Alex Da Carte/Courtesy of the artist In the decade since her debut as St. Vincent, Annie Clark has earned some of the rarest honors a rock artist could hope for. Her 2014 self-titled LP won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.…

Here are a few of the places I've played Mario Kart in the last two weeks: On the couch. In bed. On the train. In an Uber. On a plane. In a Vegas hotel. At the dog park. In a weirdly long line at Trader Joe's. And, of course, on the toilet, more times than I'm proud of. In every case, all I had to…

If you have to travel a short distance in a city — to run an errand or meet a friend for a drink — how do you get there? In America, at least, your answer is probably not “ride a bike.” “I think our b

The website FamilyTreeNow presents itself as an alternative to genealogy websites such as Ancestry and FamilySearch. It claims to have “one of the largest collections of genealogy records anywhere.” Some old-timey photos adorning the site give the impression that it can help you discover family from…

The images that flashed before our eyes on television and social media from this weekend’s racist rallies and counterprotests were ones filled with rage, hatred and sadness. The world bore witness to the results of an election filled with hostility and fearmongering, which gave the people who…

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. For many visitors, the highlight of a new photography exhibit at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is a book of algae pictures. It sounds a little mundane, but it’s actually “The First Photographically Illustrated and Printed Book”—and it…

Lit Thursday: Get a Sneak Peak of the First Book in Our Imprint An excerpt from Jenny Zhang's forthcoming story collection, Sour Heart . version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"? By Jul 27, 2017 Advertisement - Continue Reading Below I moved from Shanghai, China, to Flushing, Queens, in the…

Modern Love The 12-Hour Goodbye That Started Everything Credit...Brian Rea The first time he slept over was an accident. He came to watch a movie, which for me became an exercise in remaining perfectl

Modern Love Todo comenzó con un rompimiento maratónico Credit...Brian Rea La primera vez que se quedó a dormir en mi casa fue por accidente. Vino a ver una película, aunque yo estaba más concentrada e

Lana’s look is not to make it look easy. In 2011, Lana Del Rey showed up to the chillwave party with flowers in her hair and a video she’d made herself. She was awkward, a pity guest tugging at the hem of her hand-me-down dress. She didn’t know how to do eyeliner. The video—for “Video Games”—looked…

From just about any way you look at it, the three years I’ve spent at Jezebel and the six years I’ve spent at Gawker Media have been a continuous series of calamities ranging from the minor to the severe. If I’d been scripting it for a prestige miniseries you would tell me my plot was excessive and…

Hallencourt, the derelict, poverty-stricken town where Édouard Louis’s The End of Eddy is set, is less than 100 miles from Paris, but it feels light years away. For generations, life in the town has revolved around the local factory. Workers clock in for day shifts and night shifts to ensure it’s…

COMENTARIO Patricia Flor [email protected] En los países desarrollados, las pasantías laborales se encuentran ampliamente consolidadas. Las pasantías laborales benefician tanto a las empresas como a los pasantes. Por un lado, los pasantes cuentan con la oportunidad de experimentar en tiempo y…

Jan. 1, 2017 Credit...Olivier Schrauwen By January is the big month for buying gym memberships. The excesses of the holiday season leave many of us looking to make improvements in our lives — a search that often leads straight to the elliptical machine. But what about your job and career? How have…

En el paraninfo de la facultad de Psicología de la Universitat de Barcelona, una pancarta enorme -Maria la recuerda así, muy grande- anunciaba la presentación del Front d’Alliberament Gai de Catalunya (FAGC). Ella tenía 18 años y se había matriculado en Psicología para ver si le daban "alguna…

Lorde’s new album is carefully plotted surprise, and it gets you every time. “Melodrama offers the hope that it may not be too late.” — Linda Williams, “Melodrama Revised” (1998) “Go back and tell it” — Lorde, “Hard Feelings / Loveless” (2017) Exactly halfway into Lorde’s Melodrama is the tellingly…

Whenever a young person comes to me for career counsel I let loose a dramatic sigh, fix her with a steely stare and deliver the following discourse, which is drawn on more than a decade’s experience spent toiling in this industry: “If you want to succeed, find a field in its infancy, one with no…

When MTV News was rebooted at the beginning of 2016, it was heralded as nothing short of an uprising. “What we are about to do here is about the most revolutionary and forward-thinking thing that we c

Negocios El Ether amenaza con desplazar al Bitcoin como moneda digital Estantes con computadoras minando bitcoins y ether en una granja de servidores en Guizhou, China, en junio pasadoCredit...Gilles

Arte: Pedro Nekoi/VICE Brasil FYI. This story is over 5 years old. Naiara Azevedo, Maiara & Maraisa e Marília Mendonça cantam modas com fortes protagonistas femininas e de um ano para cá estão unidas

Page-Turner June 26, 2017 Roxane Gay’s new memoir, “Hunger,” deals with her rape, her overeating, and her struggles with her public and private identities.Photograph by Eva Blue Roxane Gay has several personae, but she first garnered Internet fame as a diarist. On Tumblr, during the platform’s…

Desde 2010 as “damas do agronegócio” reúnem-se mensalmente na sede da Sociedade Rural Brasileira na cidade de São Paulo. Entre as 23 integrantes do Núcleo Feminino do Agronegócio, participava a grande pecuarista Ana Luiza Junqueira Vilela Viacava. Em 2012, ela declarou: “Gosto da terra e da…

Una delegación de especialistas en financiación y planificación del Programa de Naciones Unidas para los Asentamientos Humanos (ONU Hábitat) visitó el país, oportunidad en que estudian la implementación de una nueva agenda urbana para el ordenamiento territorial de las ciudades. La comitiva fue…

But where to find them? For me, last night I saw an episode of “Sex and the City” I’d never seen before. The concentrated newness of early life makes it so days pass like years and memories stick like

A Traditional City PrimerDecember 4, 2013 As you read my blog, you will often see me talk about and promote the Traditional City. This post will be an introductory to the Traditional City for those that are not familiar with it. I have been called a quack - criticised for promoting the Traditional…

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) Listen to Melodrama on headphones. Not because it’s one of those records that’s trying to be The Dark Side of the Moon. Do it because it sounds like Lorde is whisper

Cultural Comment June 19, 2017 To celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial, the pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen appeared alongside the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Photograph by Jag Gundu / Toronto Symphony Orchestra The most beautiful sound in the world to me is that of an orchestra tuning itself to the…

On her debut album Pure Heroine, Lorde was always skeptical when it came to perfection: she criticized pretty cities, diamonds, the overblown love you hear about in chart-topping songs. Teenage ennui

Silent crying comes in handy all the time: In bathroom stalls all through school; on pillows in the dark next to significant others when you fail to successfully disagree about something; funerals; cabs; standing in line at coffee shops; riding public transit. It’s never a perfect cover. As best I…