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  Pandemic Makes Evident 'Grotesque' Gender Inequality In Household Work

  NPR - Terry Gross

  COVID-19 has transformed home life — turning kitchen tables into home offices and classrooms and putting a spotlight on the countless household tasks typically performed by women. Brigid Schulte says the pandemic has laid bare the "grotesque inequality" that exists within many families. "There's …

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  A letter to… my wife, who won’t talk about her anger

  The Guardian - Guardian staff reporter

  ‘I’m finally above reminding or begging you for closeness’: the letter you always wanted to write

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  To improve memory and learning, the brain forgets things on purpose

  Ladders - Thomas Oppong

  Traditionally, forgetting names, skills, events or information is often thought of as purely negative — a passive decay.However unintuitive it may …

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  How Long Is Right Now? Calculating the Present

  VICE - Shayla Love

  As long as it took you to read that headline. Or shorter. Or it might not exist at all. Something remarkable will happen when the clock ticks from 11:59 to 12:00 AM. In an instant, 2019, once all-encompassing, will recede into the past, and 2020, previously futuristic and far away, will step in to …

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  Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back

  FiveThirtyEight - Daniel Cox and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

  Millennials have earned a reputation for reshaping industries and institutions — shaking up the workplace, transforming dating culture, and …

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  What we get wrong about time

  BBC Future - Claudia Hammond

  Most of us tend to think of time as linear, absolute and constantly “running out” – but is that really true? And how can we change our perceptions to feel better about its passing?