In recent months, there has been a lot of excitement around the idea of a new World Wide Web based on blockchains. It’s commonly referred to as “web3”, to be contrasted with “web1” (websites) and “web2” (social media platforms). The creators of Ethereum have been pushing this idea for a while, but…

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In 2006, i was 50 —and I was falling apart. Until then, I had always known exactly who I was: an exceptionally fortunate and happy woman, full of irrational exuberance and everyday joy. I knew who I w

I’d forgotten that Abigail Shrier had a Substack column called “The Truth Fairy“, and so I would have missed this wonderful talk (in transcript) had several readers not sent me the link. It is a talk that Shrier gave to a group of students at Princeton, hosted by the Princeton Tory, the Witherspoon…

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Well Challenge Day 2 During pandemic lockdowns, many of us learned the importance of short home workouts. Take the 7-Day Well Challenge for a new exercise video and more ways to keep moving in 2021. Credit...Andrew B Myers By Jan. 4, 2021 Leer en español Make 2021 the year of the exercise snack.…

Death Was a Theory, Until I Became a Mother An existential philosopher reflects on the mortality of motherhood. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. A

Hiding from the rioters in a secret location away from the Capitol, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) appealed to Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. Sen. Lin

There are three moments in the yearlong catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic when events might have turned out differently. The first occurred on January 3, 2020, when Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke with George Fu Gao, the head of the Chinese…

How to Remember What You Read From Non-Fiction Books A guide for applying evidence-based learning strategies to reading any non-fiction book, and retaining what you read. Eva Keiffenheim 15 min read· Dec 14, 2020 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Christina Morillo / Pexels At age…

Illustrations by Guillem Casasús / Renderings by Borja Alegre This article was published online on September 23, 2020. T here is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and

I am not usually one to see a glass as half full, especially when any idiot can see that it’s half empty, as it is right now. But the new quarantine regime that is forcing even the most outgoing perso

Over the years, some words have established themselves at the London Mathematical Laboratory as a useful vocabulary. “Laplacing something” and “Weltschmerz” (p.32) are among these words. Another is “Democratic Domestic Product” or DDP — a humorous term, like all the others, that reflects the first…

In 2008, Yuval Noah Harari, a young historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, began to write a book derived from an undergraduate world-history class that he was teaching. Twenty lectures became twenty chapters. Harari, who had previously written about aspects of medieval and early-modern…

Calling someone manipulative is a criticism of that person’s character. Saying that you have been manipulated is a complaint about having been treated badly. Manipulation is dodgy at best, and downrig

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When I was a student, in the distant past when most computers were still huge mainframes, I had a friend whose PhD advisor insisted that he carry out a long and difficult atomic theory calculation by

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Submit a letter: Email us [email protected] Reviewed: Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran Other Press, 520 pp., $28.95 Catherine and Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and t

B ack in the middle of the first decade of this century, a new movement was heralded by the publication of several books on the same subject. The main four authors were Richard Dawkins , Christopher H

T his week Democrats plunged into two controversies that portend danger for the party as the 2020 election season begins. Both centered on freshman representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who, not coi

Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything. Photo: Cole Bennetts/Getty Images One of the hardiest and most irresistible political fallacies holds that, if your side’s agenda is failing, it has fai

“If the connection between reality and human response were direct and immediate, rather than indirect and inferred, indecision and failure would be unknown.” “Truth always rests with the minority … be

Sarah Kendzior is a St. Louis-based commentator who writes about politics, the economy and media. From the moment Donald Trump launched his campaign in August, 2015 – a spectacle of sloganeering, spee

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The Miami Herald’s investigative team, led by Julie K. Brown, is doing some remarkable reporting on “ How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime .” This is the very disturbing story of Jeffrey Epstein, the gazillionaire hedge-fund rent-skimmer who used his…

Joyce Carol Oates newest book, Hazards of Time Travel , is available now from Ecco. * Who do you most wish would read your book? What an unexpected question! My truthful answer is—“I have no idea.” I’ve never had the slightest idea or expectation about audience(s). I am continually surprised to…

Yalitza Aparicio, left, with Marco Graf in “Roma.” (Carlos Somonte/Netflix) Rating: ‘Roma,” a masterful drama by Alfonso Cuarón, is many things at once: epic and intimate, mythic and mundane. Based on Cuarón’s memories of growing up in a bourgeois Mexico City household in the 1970s, this tone-poem…

Decades before the rise of social media, polarisation plagued discussions about language. By and large, it still does. Everyone who cares about the topic is officially required to take one of two stances. Either you smugly preen about the mistakes you find abhorrent – this makes you a so-called…

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), left, speaks at a small rally outside an orientation meeting for incoming members of Congress at Harvard University as Rep.-elect Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rep.-elect Lori Trahan (D-Mass), look on in Cambridge, Mass. on Dec. 4. (AP Photo/Michael…

It is no longer journalistically sound to report on the Trump investigation as if it is a matter that may, or may not, yield damning information about the President. In a series of filings that came Friday night, the office of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, and a separate group of federal…

What Straight-A Students Get Wrong If you always succeed in school, you’re not setting yourself up for success in life. Dr. Grant is an organizational psychologist and a contributing opinion writer. Leer en español Credit Linda Huang A decade ago, at the end of my first semester teaching at Wharton,…