Technology The transhumanists who want to live foreverMIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado For a core of longevity true believers, the time to intervene is now. I turn 50 this year. There’s a new creaking in my bones; my skin doesn’t snap …
Are You Bad at Breathing? These Gurus Think SoThe Daily Beast - Alaina Demopoulos On a recent Saturday afternoon, dozens gathered at The Assemblage, a wellness-focused coworking space located off of Park Avenue. The fern-filled …
San Francisco, CA Here’s what it’s like working at SF’s smallest bar. It involves a bathtub.SFGate - Grant Marek, SFGATEWelcome to San Francisco's smallest bar. Cassandra Harvell stands — very precariously — on the rim of a clawfoot bathtub, weight shifted to the balls of two feet tucked neatly into a pair of white high-tops.
Books Too busy? Distracted by your phone? How to love reading againThe GuardianIf reading has given way in your life to social media and other distractions, it can be hard to return to books – but these tips could help In 2019, books are not just a last resort when the wifi is down.
Play buttonArt The Staying Power of the Smiley Faceartsy.net - Kate Silzer Fatboy Slim, Brighton (Camouflage Series), 2018. Joseph Ford Underdogs GalleryIn a video installation by James Joyce, a yellow circle rotates as two …
Vietnam Peter Fonda, What I've LearnedEsquire - By Mike SagerThis article originally appeared in the January 2009 issue of Esquire. Peter Fonda died Tuesday at the age of 79. I was born famous, so right off the bat, fame meant nothing to me. I could dig the coolest,
Omaha, NE 'Holden Caulfield at 27': Esquire's 1968 Profile of Peter FondaEsquire - By Rex ReedPeter Fonda was lying on his back in a bathing suit of old cut-off chinos, out by his swimming pool up on Lime Orchard Road in Beverly Hills. He lives there, more or less a part of the society he’s been
NASA Rare 'fire cloud' looks otherworldly in photo snapped from NASA's flying labNBC News - By David FreemanNew research on the clouds aims to improve forecasts of weather and air quality. You’ve seen billowy cumulus clouds and wispy cirrus clouds, but odds are you’re not too familiar with fire clouds. Even
Summer Camp Vintage Photos of Summer Camp Through the Yearscrfashionbook.com - Arricca Elin Sansone Roasting marshmallows, paddling around the lake, and learning camp songs may be part of your favorite childhood memories, but summer camps have been …
Greta Thunberg How teen Greta Thunberg shifted world's gaze to climate changeNBC News - Linda Givetash“Instead of worrying about how that future might turn out, I’m going to try to change that future while I still can,” the teen told NBC News. LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Staring through a swarm of photographers
Adam Neumann WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap operaThe Verge - Elizabeth LopattoOn August 14th, The We Company (the company formerly known as WeWork) filed its mandatory S-1 paperwork to go public, and it’s worth reading in full. I mean, forget the serious stuff for a moment. The
Jeffrey Epstein Inmate 76318-054: The Last Days of Jeffrey EpsteinThe New York Times - By ALI WATKINS, DANIELLE IVORY and CHRISTINA GOLDBAUMJeffrey Epstein, inmate 76318-054, hated his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. It was cramped, dank and infested with vermin, so Mr. Epstein, long accustomed to using his wealth to play by
Healthy Living This Entomologist Has a Travel Warning: Always Put Your Suitcase in the Hotel Bathroomapartmenttherapy.com - Kaitlin Stanford There’s just something about walking into your hotel room after a long flight, flinging your suitcase (and yourself) on the bed, and officially …
Men's Fashion How a Single Pair of Sneakers Explains the Booming Billion-Dollar Sneaker Resale IndustryGQ - Cam WolfZac leans into the pair of sneakers in his hands and takes a great big whiff—the sort of noisy inhale typically reserved for fresh-out-of-the-oven cookies and the heads of newborn babies. Zac is a sneaker
Tips for traveling abroadVeniceMagazine by The Washington PostDon't look like a tourist on your next trip overseas with these helpful tips, tricks and news you can use from By The Way.
Most Memorable Movie Moments of the Past 21 YearsEntertainment IndustryMagazine by Rotten TomatoesThe scariest, funniest, most thrilling and moving moments from cinema
Ayn Rand The Last of the Ayn Rand Acolytesnewrepublic.com - Alexander Sammon This year's Objectivist Conference revealed that her cult of hyper-capitalism has a major recruiting problem: All the young people want to be …
Long-form Journalism Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English languageThe Guardian - David ShariatmadariThe 21st century seems to present us with an ever-lengthening list of perils: climate crisis, financial meltdown, cyber-attacks. Should we stock up on canned foods in case the ATMs snap shut? Buy a shedload
Science Fractal Patterns Offer Clues to the Universe's OriginWIRED - Natalie Wolchover Pour milk in coffee, and the eddies and tendrils of white soon fade to brown. In half an hour, the drink cools to room temperature. Left for days, …
Amelia Earhart Exclusive: Inside the search for Amelia Earhart’s airplaneNational Geographic - Rachel Hartigan SheaMany attempts have been made to discover the famed aviator's fate, but never with the technological tools at Robert Ballard's disposal. It’s a balmy tropical night south of the equator in the Pacific but
Sports Mixing MMA and Romance: Inside Life as the Better Half of a Cage FighterBleacher Report - Jeremy BotterFor a mixed martial arts fighter, the night of an event is the culmination of a process. By the time they step into the cage, they've been through four, eight, 12 weeks of training camp, usually on a schedule.
Google Search Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in TechWIRED - Nitasha Tiku On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring …
Lyme Disease Why Is Lyme Disease So Hard to Understand?The Atlantic - Meghan O'RourkeIn the fall of 1997, after I graduated from college, I began experiencing what I called “electric shocks”—tiny stabbing sensations that flickered over my legs and arms every morning. They were so extreme
Birth Control The Myth of Male Birth ControlCosmopolitan - By Hannah SmothersAlex (or maybe his name is Andrew or Jesse) brought you back to his place and things are totally on. His arms? Beefy. His make-out skills? Clutch. His hair? Like Zeus himself blow-dried it. Clothes are
Sports How the NFL took over America in 100 yearsESPN - Anthony Gulizia and Jeremy Willis Prior to his death in 2005, Hunter S. Thompson, a foremost chronicler of America's last 50 years, once wrote the following for ESPN: "We must have …
Slavery The 1619 Project: Observing the 400th Anniversary of the Beginning of American SlaveryThe New York Times American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s true origin.
Puzzles The great escapeVox - Rachel SugarThere are few desires more deeply human than the desire to escape whatever reality you’re in. The problem is not the details of any particular life — and the nicer your life is, the more resources you
Butterflies The Mysterious Fate of the World’s Largest Butterflyundark.org - Nick Haddad The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing, with a wingspan of up to 12 inches, is among the world’s rarest butterflies, but next to nothing is known about …
Richard Linklater How Linklater's 'Bernadette' uses architecture to reflect heroineLos Angeles Times - Mark OlsenA movie about a reclusive star architect rather obviously needs both a star and some pretty striking architecture. For his adaptation of Maria Semple’s 2012 novel “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” filmmaker
Kylie Cosmetics Kardashian BFFs Are Here Today And Gone Tomorrowbuzzfeednews.com - Zan Romanoff From Kylie Jenner to Jordyn Woods — and now Stassie Edwards — the Kardashians have always been good at monetizing friendships between women. Kylie …
