Business Daydreaming, promenading and zoning out pay rich dividends Mar 19th 2022 T HE FAMILIAR exerts a powerful subliminal appeal. The “name-letter effect” refers to the subconscious bias that peopl
Britain Mar 19th 2022 edition The British climate is unpleasantly chilly. Coping with that is getting harder Mar 17th 2022 B RITAIN IS A damp, cold place and always has been. Two thousand years ago St
L oretta Breuning grew up around a lot of unhappiness, but couldn’t figure out why. To try to find out, she avidly read up on psychology, alongside raising two children and working as a professor in m
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One of my formative childhood lessons came when I was playing in the garage one day. I went into my mom’s car and put the seatbelt on (probably to pretend I was flying a plane). I realized at one point that I could still lean pretty far forward. Far enough that my head could touch…
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Feb 19th 2022 W HEN SHELTON FABRE became a bishop in New Orleans in 2007 he took as his motto a phrase from the prophet Isaiah: “Comfort my people”. It was apposite to the city, still recovering from
Business Jan 15th 2022 edition The written word will flourish in the post-pandemic workplace Jan 15th 2022 T HE PANDEMIC has given a big shove to all forms of digital communication. Video-conferencing
It’s easy to accept the limits that are implied when someone asks us for advice and feedback. Fix the typos, sure. That’s important. But perhaps you have something bigger to add. A friend shares plans
The Americas Feb 12th 2022 edition It is 100 years since modernists vowed to transform the country’s culture Feb 12th 2022 A HUNDRED YEARS ago this weekend, a group of young artists and writers organi
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J ohn Oliver looked into my eyes and cocked his head. We held each other’s gaze. On the “stage” of an upstairs room in a grimy little pub, his partner – it may have been Andy Zaltzman but this was 15
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For blind and visually impaired people like me, accessibility is the difference between us being able to use a website and clicking off it. How screen readers work Screen readers allow blind and visua
Obituary Jul 3rd 2021 edition India’s champion sprinter, known as “The Flying Sikh”, was 90 or 91 Jul 1st 2021 B EFORE HIS best race, at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958, M
Obituary Oct 30th 2021 edition The pioneering cheesemonger died on October 9th, aged 40 Oct 30th 2021 E UROPEAN VISITORS to America, that land of infinite variety, have often been struck by strange in
Some people say “hobby” like it’s a bad thing. In a race for more, it seems as though doing something you don’t get paid for, something that requires patience and skill–well, some people don’t get it.
“If I could just find someone to handle all the sales, I could get back to work.” “Do you know someone who can do all of the investments, accounting, taxes and strategies around money?” “Why do I have
I f Christmas is often synonymous with hours spent indoors, the lure of the sofa and endless screentime, our second festive season spent under the shadow of Covid is presumably taking those things to
If you open a roadside motel, expect that tired and demanding budget travelers will arrive. If you run a fancy restaurant, don’t be surprised if people will angle and cajole and lie to get a ‘better’
Renay Mandel Corren Obituary Send Flowers Renay Mandel Corren El Paso, TX—A plus-sized Jewish lady redneck died in El Paso on Saturday. Of itself hardly news, or good news if you're the type that subs
Dec 18th 2021 alesia, gergovia and lutetia H EMINGWAY, ORWELL, Joyce, Turgenev: many great foreign writers have found inspiration in France. But for lasting influence, one scribe stands above them all
This is an absolutely terrible acronym for a really important idea. Use Your Best Judgment. Don’t wait for someone else to take responsibility. Don’t wait for perfect. Don’t wait to find this exact si
Nov 27th 2021 S HE LOVED that coat. It was the only one she had, made of thick smooth Casentino cloth, which some said was the best in Italy. Second, it was bright vermilion, as red as could be, bound
Simple Product Management Tricks I’m a fairly poor product manager. It’s not a discipline I’ve practiced much, so I haven’t developed any of the skills I’d need to be good at it. Constitutionally, I’m
If you’ve managed to avoid Dagger's hate trend and made it this far, you probably care about performance and want to make sure you’re getting everything you possibly can out of Dagger. If that’s the c
Nov 27th 2021 Y OUR COLUMNIST joined The Economist in 1988, at Thatcherism’s high tide. Sluggish institutions were being electrified, and long-suppressed energies unleashed. He is leaving during anoth
A n Audience With ..., the long-running ITV format that matches a star with a celebrity-heavy crowd, has lain dormant for a decade, ever since Barry Manilow serenaded guests including Gino D’Acampo, S
This nomadic life was of my own choosing. I was restless in a small town; the pull of the unknown was strong. And so, over ten years ago, I tore myself from everything I knew and packed two bags and l
Dec 3rd 2020 S ENT ON AN errand, or packed off to school, Diego Maradona didn’t walk. He practised keepie-uppies, instep to thigh to back-heel to head, with anything roughly round he could find. Scrum
W hat has been the British government’s biggest mistake since the war? For Charlie Mullins, the boss of Pimlico Plumbers, the answer is obvious: letting people work from home. It’s a surprising line f
One day in August 2021, Zhao Wei disappeared. For one of China’s best-known actresses to physically vanish from public view would have been enough to cause a stir on its own. But Zhao’s disappearing a
Sep 29th 2021 IN MANY PLACES where seaweed used to thrive, often growing in vast “forests”, it is disappearing. The cause is global warming, which, by heating the ocean’s upper layer, reduces its dens
From Protocol : Cloudflare is ready to launch a new cloud object storage service that promises to be cheaper than the established alternatives, a step the company believes will catapult it into direct
A $5.5 Billion Reminder that Email is Not Work August 12th, 2021 · Be the first to comment Last winter, a risk analyst at Credit Suisse noticed that one of their clients, a hedge fund named Archego, w
Aug 21st 2021 Just the Plague. By Ludmila Ulitskaya. Translated by Polly Gannon. Granta; 144 pages: £9.99 I N 1988 LUDMILA ULITSKAYA wrote a screenplay about an epidemic as part of her application for
Aug 14th 2021 All In. By Billie Jean King. Knopf; 496 pages; $30. To be published in Britain by Viking in September; £20 A T THE AGE of 15, Billie Jean King anticipated the trajectory of her life in a
There are broadly two kinds of readers — Finishers and Abandoners — and they are completely baffled by each other’s reading habits. I used to be a Finisher. If I started a book, I had to read to the l
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