Humanity They Said Engineers Don’t Give Birth to Artists. They Were Wrong.medium.com - Margarita Gokun Silver Six months ago, the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean passed my window frame as I stared at my laptop screen and lingered over the pay …
Humanity Ditch the Google Searchmedium.com - Carmella Guiol Just as my partner and I were settling into our new home in San Juan, we were already leaving. A summer trip to Europe had been in the works for a …
Girl Scouts What Do Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift, and Serena Williams Have in Common?medium.com - Stephen J. Dubner/ Freakonomics Radio What do Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have in common? All three female secretaries of state — Hillary Clinton, …
Comic-Con San Diego Comic-Con Is Overcrowded. Let’s Make It Biggermedium.com - Rob Bricken The world’s biggest pop culture convention has become its least enjoyable, but it doesn’t have to be San Diego Comic-Con is a one-of-a-kind experience …
Comic-Con San Diego Comic-Con Is Overcrowded. Let’s Make It Biggermedium.com - Rob Bricken The world’s biggest pop culture convention has become its least enjoyable, but it doesn’t have to be San Diego Comic-Con is a one-of-a-kind experience …
Tijuana Dispatch From the Cali-Mexico Bordermedium.com - Alejandra Oliva A volunteer helping families cross over into California shares the painstaking process I spent the second week of 2019 in Tijuana, Baja California. Or …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTijuana At the Border, No One Can Know Your Namemedium.com - Alejandra Oliva A volunteer helping families cross over into California shares the painstaking process I spent the second week of 2019 in Tijuana, Baja California. Or …
Internet The Bright Light of the Internetmedium.com - Cassie McDaniel I embraced social media early and indiscriminately. With ardent curiosity beginning with Twitter in 2007, I collected profile pages like trophies, …
Long-form Journalism How the Durag Became a Political Statementmedium.com - Jame Jackson The case for why this much-maligned style accessory deserves our admiration The durag is an easily recognizable piece of cultural iconography in the …
Hypnosis Can You Hypnotize the Pain Away?medium.com - Tessa Love Studies are promising — though why it works remains a mystery Early in Mark Jensen’s career as a rehabilitation medicine specialist, he kept running …
Mental Health Does PRP Therapy Actually Work?medium.com - John Bogna Proponents claim your own blood can be a healing elixir — think: the vampire facial — but the science is missing Osteoarthritis. Your aching back. …
Long-form Journalism Can a New Zealand lab take virtual assistants from marketing gimmicks to artificial intelligence?medium.com - Aaron Gell Can a New Zealand-based lab take virtual assistants from the realm of marketing gimmicks and endow them with real intelligence? One day in the spring …
Fan Bingbing My 9 Months on the Road With Fan Bingbing, China’s Biggest Movie Starmedium.com - Rian Dundon A decade before her disappearance, the Angelina Jolie of China hired me as her tutor. I got a crash course in China’s dizzying celebrity-industrial …
Protein Pump You Up: The Enduring Power of Protein Powdermedium.com - Rowan Jacobsen Everything you could possibly want to know about gym goers’ favorite hack My friend David recently hopped on the protein-powder express. Everyone I …
Long-form Journalism The Risky Business of Psychedelic Therapymedium.com - Mark Wilding Inner Mastery, sometimes known as Ayahuasca International, markets itself through social media. At least 50 Facebook pages, with more than 600,000 …
U.S. Politics Pence, Brown Men, and the Racist Protection of White Womenmedium.com - Mona Eltahawy When Vice President Mike Pence became the highest-ranking Trump official to visit a migrant concentration camp last week, most of the images showed …
Long-form Journalism The Dot-Com Don: Meet the Domain Prospector Turning Stray URLs Into Real Businessesmedium.com - Caitlin Dewey Most entrepreneurs acquire domains to fit their businesses. Peter Askew does the opposite. Inside the Switchyards, a buzzy Atlanta co-working space, …
U.S. Politics The GOP’s Dangerous Cowardicemedium.com - Jessica Valenti Americans will remember what Republicans did and didn’t do when faced with a bigot From calling African nations “shithole countries” and labeling …
Long-form Journalism The Moon Landing Hoax Theory Started as a Jokemedium.com - Darryn King How a freelance writer sowed doubts about the Apollo mission — now 50 years old — laying the groundwork for 9/11 truthers, birtherism, Pizzagate, and …
Long-form Journalism What to Expect When You Have a Miscarriagemedium.com - Emily Oster It is a simple fact that many pregnancies end in miscarriage. The likelihood that a pregnancy will end is about 25% if we consider all pregnancies — …
Antibiotics Bringing the Heat: Using Hyperthermia to Treat Lyme Diseasemedium.com - Jenni Gritters People are paying $30,000 for a controversial, high-heat treatment in Germany. Welcome to Klinik St. Georg. When you arrive in the small German town …
Truffles Can You Hack Into Your Creativity?medium.com - Tessa Love Creativity is one of humanity’s greatest allures — and mysteries. Plato wrote of creation as divine inspiration, or the muse “breathing into” the …
MySpace Why the ‘Weird Internet’ of the GeoCities Era Had to Diemedium.com - Owen Williams Simple and boring rules the day — for a pretty good reason. But there are still tools out there for the experimenters. Ask any web developer how they …
FaceApp What Does FaceApp Do With Your Photos? The Same Thing Facebook Does.medium.com - Dave Gershgorn If you’re worried about the data you’re giving FaceApp, there’s a lot more you should think about Last night, I learned that I am going to be a …
Neuralink Elon Musk Wants to Read Your Brainmedium.com - Emily Mullin The tech entrepreneur’s startup Neuralink wants to implant a brain-computer interface in people as soon as next year Elon Musk says he wants to merge …
Technology Is Your Phone Giving You a Headache? OLED Screens Might Be to Blame.medium.com - Angela Lashbrook Is Your Phone Giving You a Headache? OLED Screens Might Be to Blame An increasingly common kind of display has a slight flickering effect that causes …
U.S. Politics Dear Presidential Hopefuls: Please Stop Hispanderingmedium.com - Kelli María Korducki With the Trump administration’s ongoing ICE raids and images of caged children searing anti-Latinx injustices into the collective consciousness, the …
Long-form Journalism How Crop Farming Could Breed Deadly Superbugsmedium.com - Anna Almendrala A woman puts on her gardening gloves and plunges her spade into the earth. As she digs and plants all afternoon, thousands of microscopic fungal …
Oxygen Are There Hard Limits to Human Performance?medium.com - Jeremy Sutton, PhD For sports scientists like myself, the marathon provides an opportunity to test the psychological and physiological factors behind human performance. …
Burnout The Natural Cure for Burnout Is Profound and Utter Awemedium.com - Brad Stulberg Awe deprivation is common, but it doesn’t need to be Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, who piloted Apollo 14 and was the sixth American to walk on the …
Humanity They Said Engineers Don’t Give Birth to Artists. They Were Wrong.medium.com - Margarita Gokun Silver Six months ago, the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean passed my window frame as I stared at my laptop screen and lingered over the pay …
Humanity Ditch the Google Searchmedium.com - Carmella Guiol Just as my partner and I were settling into our new home in San Juan, we were already leaving. A summer trip to Europe had been in the works for a …
Girl Scouts What Do Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift, and Serena Williams Have in Common?medium.com - Stephen J. Dubner/ Freakonomics Radio What do Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have in common? All three female secretaries of state — Hillary Clinton, …
Comic-Con San Diego Comic-Con Is Overcrowded. Let’s Make It Biggermedium.com - Rob Bricken The world’s biggest pop culture convention has become its least enjoyable, but it doesn’t have to be San Diego Comic-Con is a one-of-a-kind experience …
Comic-Con San Diego Comic-Con Is Overcrowded. Let’s Make It Biggermedium.com - Rob Bricken The world’s biggest pop culture convention has become its least enjoyable, but it doesn’t have to be San Diego Comic-Con is a one-of-a-kind experience …
Tijuana Dispatch From the Cali-Mexico Bordermedium.com - Alejandra Oliva A volunteer helping families cross over into California shares the painstaking process I spent the second week of 2019 in Tijuana, Baja California. Or …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTijuana At the Border, No One Can Know Your Namemedium.com - Alejandra Oliva A volunteer helping families cross over into California shares the painstaking process I spent the second week of 2019 in Tijuana, Baja California. Or …
Internet The Bright Light of the Internetmedium.com - Cassie McDaniel I embraced social media early and indiscriminately. With ardent curiosity beginning with Twitter in 2007, I collected profile pages like trophies, …
Long-form Journalism How the Durag Became a Political Statementmedium.com - Jame Jackson The case for why this much-maligned style accessory deserves our admiration The durag is an easily recognizable piece of cultural iconography in the …
Hypnosis Can You Hypnotize the Pain Away?medium.com - Tessa Love Studies are promising — though why it works remains a mystery Early in Mark Jensen’s career as a rehabilitation medicine specialist, he kept running …
Mental Health Does PRP Therapy Actually Work?medium.com - John Bogna Proponents claim your own blood can be a healing elixir — think: the vampire facial — but the science is missing Osteoarthritis. Your aching back. …
Long-form Journalism Can a New Zealand lab take virtual assistants from marketing gimmicks to artificial intelligence?medium.com - Aaron Gell Can a New Zealand-based lab take virtual assistants from the realm of marketing gimmicks and endow them with real intelligence? One day in the spring …
Fan Bingbing My 9 Months on the Road With Fan Bingbing, China’s Biggest Movie Starmedium.com - Rian Dundon A decade before her disappearance, the Angelina Jolie of China hired me as her tutor. I got a crash course in China’s dizzying celebrity-industrial …
Protein Pump You Up: The Enduring Power of Protein Powdermedium.com - Rowan Jacobsen Everything you could possibly want to know about gym goers’ favorite hack My friend David recently hopped on the protein-powder express. Everyone I …
Long-form Journalism The Risky Business of Psychedelic Therapymedium.com - Mark Wilding Inner Mastery, sometimes known as Ayahuasca International, markets itself through social media. At least 50 Facebook pages, with more than 600,000 …
U.S. Politics Pence, Brown Men, and the Racist Protection of White Womenmedium.com - Mona Eltahawy When Vice President Mike Pence became the highest-ranking Trump official to visit a migrant concentration camp last week, most of the images showed …
Long-form Journalism The Dot-Com Don: Meet the Domain Prospector Turning Stray URLs Into Real Businessesmedium.com - Caitlin Dewey Most entrepreneurs acquire domains to fit their businesses. Peter Askew does the opposite. Inside the Switchyards, a buzzy Atlanta co-working space, …
U.S. Politics The GOP’s Dangerous Cowardicemedium.com - Jessica Valenti Americans will remember what Republicans did and didn’t do when faced with a bigot From calling African nations “shithole countries” and labeling …
Long-form Journalism The Moon Landing Hoax Theory Started as a Jokemedium.com - Darryn King How a freelance writer sowed doubts about the Apollo mission — now 50 years old — laying the groundwork for 9/11 truthers, birtherism, Pizzagate, and …
Long-form Journalism What to Expect When You Have a Miscarriagemedium.com - Emily Oster It is a simple fact that many pregnancies end in miscarriage. The likelihood that a pregnancy will end is about 25% if we consider all pregnancies — …
Antibiotics Bringing the Heat: Using Hyperthermia to Treat Lyme Diseasemedium.com - Jenni Gritters People are paying $30,000 for a controversial, high-heat treatment in Germany. Welcome to Klinik St. Georg. When you arrive in the small German town …
Truffles Can You Hack Into Your Creativity?medium.com - Tessa Love Creativity is one of humanity’s greatest allures — and mysteries. Plato wrote of creation as divine inspiration, or the muse “breathing into” the …
MySpace Why the ‘Weird Internet’ of the GeoCities Era Had to Diemedium.com - Owen Williams Simple and boring rules the day — for a pretty good reason. But there are still tools out there for the experimenters. Ask any web developer how they …
FaceApp What Does FaceApp Do With Your Photos? The Same Thing Facebook Does.medium.com - Dave Gershgorn If you’re worried about the data you’re giving FaceApp, there’s a lot more you should think about Last night, I learned that I am going to be a …
Neuralink Elon Musk Wants to Read Your Brainmedium.com - Emily Mullin The tech entrepreneur’s startup Neuralink wants to implant a brain-computer interface in people as soon as next year Elon Musk says he wants to merge …
Technology Is Your Phone Giving You a Headache? OLED Screens Might Be to Blame.medium.com - Angela Lashbrook Is Your Phone Giving You a Headache? OLED Screens Might Be to Blame An increasingly common kind of display has a slight flickering effect that causes …
U.S. Politics Dear Presidential Hopefuls: Please Stop Hispanderingmedium.com - Kelli María Korducki With the Trump administration’s ongoing ICE raids and images of caged children searing anti-Latinx injustices into the collective consciousness, the …
Long-form Journalism How Crop Farming Could Breed Deadly Superbugsmedium.com - Anna Almendrala A woman puts on her gardening gloves and plunges her spade into the earth. As she digs and plants all afternoon, thousands of microscopic fungal …
Oxygen Are There Hard Limits to Human Performance?medium.com - Jeremy Sutton, PhD For sports scientists like myself, the marathon provides an opportunity to test the psychological and physiological factors behind human performance. …
Burnout The Natural Cure for Burnout Is Profound and Utter Awemedium.com - Brad Stulberg Awe deprivation is common, but it doesn’t need to be Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, who piloted Apollo 14 and was the sixth American to walk on the …
