I became interested in studying first impressions after my research group discovered that such impressions can predict the outcomes of important political elections. First impressions mattered. I was

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When the Harvey Weinstein story broke, I thought of something my mother told me when I was a little girl. She said: To be a free woman, you have to be a financially independent woman. She wasn’t wrong

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excellent New Yorker article

On 10 February 1355, St Scholastica Day, two students at the University of Oxford got into a dispute with the landlord of the tavern at which they had been drinking. The quality of the wine, they felt

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Rely heavily on concrete nouns and action verbs. Nothing conveys immediacy and excitement like the concrete noun and the action verb. Rely heavily on short sentences and even fragments. Long complex s

On Wednesday, 11 October at 7:15pm a stand-alone TV episode I wrote and directed, called FIRST DAY, will be broadcast on ABC ME. FIRST DAY is about Hannah, a 12 year-old transgender girl who’s starting high school. Having presented as male at primary school, it’s the first day she’ll wear a girl’s…

Just as fish presumably don’t know they’re wet, many English speakers don’t know that the way their language works is just one of endless ways it could have come out. It’s easy to think that what one’

Posted in Editor's Pick Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World John Sherman | Longreads | September 15, 2017 | 2,250 words September 15, 2017 October 19, 2022 A personal essay in which John Sherman

On a disgustingly hot day in February, one of those days that the air is so hot that you feel it dry your eyeballs, I helped Alex move house. He and his housemates had been issued with an eviction not

“I only want to know if you’re happy and well.” That was the phone message I left for the brother I hadn’t seen in forty-five years. My voice was shaking as I added, “I hope you’ll return my call.” *

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There have been times during my career that I've found myself at a press event, listening to the creative director of a role-playing game, talking about their forthcoming release. Very, very often they will say something like, "there is such a rich story behind our game, there is a lot of lore for…

Credit: Holloway Getty Images As if octopuses, squids and other cephalopods were not already strange enough, they may have found a way to evolve that is foreign to practically all other multicellular

By now, the idea that gut bacteria affect a person’s health is not revolutionary. Many people know that these microbes influence digestion, allergies, and metabolism. The trend has become almost commo

“Minimum Viable Product. It’s an interesting term, and I don’t… I’ve never… really thought about it before. We don’t really do Minimum Viable Products, I guess we do Maximum Viable Products.” – Cabel

Written By Mark Manson Filed Under Happiness Productivity Listen to this article 00:00 00:00 I go to this boot camp-style class sometimes at a gym near my apartment. It’s one of those classes where a

Published in Monday Note · 5 min read · May 8, 2017 -- by Jean-Louis Gassée Courtesy: Apple Support site Apple execs have finally acknowledged their inexplicable failure to update the high-end Mac Pro

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Not many people know this, but those hops in your favorite IPA are actually wonderful medicine for insomnia and menopause, thanks to their high phytoestrogen content. These same phytoestrogens, howeve

Imagine music as a recipe. Would you be able tell whether it had been made with artificially engineered ingredients or fresh produce from the farmer’s market? Canned tomatoes might work just fine—but

Meet Ken: He is a beefy Asian man with 20/40 vision who frequently works out of doors. And, meet Ken: He is a young record executive who expresses himself through bold sneaker attire while simultaneou

O ne of the advertising world’s most celebrated contrarians, Sir John Hegarty is still railing against conformity after more than 50 years at the forefront of the industry. The co-founder of ad agency

By Michael Bodey June 13, 2017 — 4.59pm , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ben Mendelsohn has d

That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment media. By snubbing NATO and withdrawing from the Paris climate agree

Jenji Kohan already was in production on the fifth season of Orange Is the New Black when Donald Trump was elected president. But as she looks ahead to season six, she’d like to find a way to weave th

I love stories. My chief hobby is reading. I was formally trained as a writer, not as a game designer (there wasn’t really any formal training for game design I got started, but that’s another story). I think most game stories are not very good. And I quite enjoy games with narrative threads pulling…

Illustration by Steven P Hughes O n a blustery overcast morning this past April, Kaeli Swift walked across the campus of the University of Washington toting a weathered, purple-and-white plastic shopp

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“I’ll tell you why these neo-Nazis and fascists move here,” a man named Phil, who’d moved up to Glacier National Park after graduating from a liberal arts college, told me over dinner. “During the sum

Every time FBI Director James B. Comey appeared in public, an ever-watchful President Trump grew increasingly agitated that the topic was the one that he was most desperate to avoid: Russia. Trump had