Updated, 09/08/14 Facebook’s News Feed—the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone—is not a perfect mirror of the world. But few users expect that Facebook would change their News Feed in order to manipulate their emotional state. We…

Sometimes stories are so slender that to become movies, Hollywood has to generously pad and exaggerate the scanty details. In the case of the current effort to bring the life of Louis Zamperini to the silver screen, the challenge for filmmakers is quite the opposite — managing to fit all the…

We’ve been told our whole lives that rewards and accountability are what get us to actually follow through on our promises. It’s the reward that drive us to complete a difficult or undesirable task; it’s the light at the end of the tunnel that keeps us going when times get tough. Heck, every RPG in…

What Lack of Affection Can Do to You

Get the FREE eBook! The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Paleo! Discover if Paleo is for you The one simple trick to know if your food is Paleo-friendly Easy Paleo recipes for beginners to get you started The Paleo Diet is an effort to eat like we used to back in the day …WAY back in the day. If a…

The Great Divide is a series about inequality. Most people, asked whether parental involvement benefits children academically, would say, “of course it does.” But evidence from our research suggests otherwise. In fact, most forms of parental involvement, like observing a child’s class, contacting a…

Note: What you will find below is not so much a long blog post, but a short ebook; approach it as such. At over 20k words, it will probably take an hour or two to read, and surely even longer to process. This is the conclusion and culmination of this long series on manhood, and this short book…

7 Things You Need to Stop Doing to Be More Productive, Backed by Science BY CAMMI PHAM — First appeared on my personal blog When I was 17 years old, I used to work and study for about 20 hours a day. I went to school, did my homework during breaks and managed a not-for-profit organization at night.…

BuzzFeed has achieved an outrageous amount of success in recent years, reaching an estimated 203 million people a month, including 112 million in the US alone, according to Quantcast . There are a lot of reasons for that but a major one is the site's remarkable talent at relating to people. Many of…

While on a trip to check out graduate programs, Alexis, 24, went out drinking and met S., 29, at a local bar.* Their physical chemistry was immediate and they slept together that night. Six months later, Alexis relocated to the area for school and she and S. immediately started dating. For five…

A career-spanning Q&A with Louis C.K. FX I interviewed Louis C.K. at his apartment in Manhattan in November, 2011, for a Rolling Stone profile (you can read that story in full here ). This is a condensed and edited transcript of our conversation. Jonah Weiner: You don’t want me to say where you…

submitted 2 years ago * by throwingawaythepast2 I'm now a little over three months out of a breakup. Let me start out by saying, I'm not over her nor have I met someone amazing or have a new girlfriend. In many ways, I think that makes this post more genuine and honest than it would be coming from…

Putting it off doesn’t make it go away. Getting it done does. — Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction You get out of the meeting with your client, full of ideas and energy about what you’re going to do next. You commit to a deadline for ideas, a proposal, designs — some kind of deliverable to move…

In 1993 a psychologist , James Cutting, visited the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to see Renoir’s picture of Parisians at play, “Bal du Moulin de la Galette”, considered one of the greatest works of impressionism. Instead, he found himself magnetically drawn to a painting in the next room: an enchanting,…

From avoiding crowds to taking advantage of your body's natural rhythms, there's a best time of day to do just about anything. Here's a list of some of the best. We've shared many of these "optimal times" over the years, but we though it'd be cool to round them all up into a list, sorted by time,…

And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and…

El Chapo escaped from a maximum-security prison and evaded many attempts at capture, often hiding out in the Sierra Madre. Credit Clockwise from top left: Alfredo Estrella / AFP / Getty; Greg Mathieson / Mai / Mai / Time Life Pictures / Getty; Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP / Getty; Nikolai Golovanoff /…

As a corollary, conservatives believe that the true heir to the civil-rights movement and its ideals is the modern Republican Party (the one containing all the former segregationists). A whole subgenre of conservative “history” is devoted to rebutting the standard historical narrative that the…

"Have confidence!" is one of the most essential pieces of advice you'll receive in life that makes no sense if you've never done it. You know what confident people look like, the advantages they get, and that it's something worth emulating. How do you get there, though? What is Confidence Anyway? In…

Most demanding careers practically guarantee stress, but if you're feeling completely exhausted, unable to concentrate, or as though you're neglecting your own well-being, you may be suffering from burnout. It's a very real condition that's easy to ignore, but you can detect and fix the problem if…