Teens Teens Explain the VSCO Girl—and Why You Never Want to Be Oneslate.com - Heather Schwedel Teens are harsh spectators of the VSCO girl. Franco ZacharzewskiA lot can happen in one teenage summer. Everyone’s familiar with the growth spurt …
Tennessee This Is the Best Place to Live in America Right NowMoney Great places to live don’t have to be unaffordable — if you know where to look. At Copper Petal, a trendy boutique on walkable Franklin Street in the …
Instagram Who Would I Be Without Instagram?thecut.com - Tavi Gevinson A History of Instagram in Four Acts: The Instagram aesthetic is always evolving. Gevinson and photographer Eva O’Leary reenacted some of its phases. …
Pierre Nkurunziza Inside the most brutal dictatorship you’ve never heard ofgq-magazine.co.uk - Sean Williams One stuffy Friday night in spring 2017, Thierry Hakizimana, a driver for a Catholic diocese in northern Burundi, stopped by a bar near his home after …
Security 'Freeze... and marry me!' - Russians who propose at gunpointBBC News - Nina NazarovaAnastasia is expecting her boyfriend Sergei to be waiting for her when her flight arrives at St Petersburg airport. But as she lands he texts to say that, due to unforeseen work commitments, a friend be
CBD Vapes spiked with illegal drugs show dark side of CBD crazeAssociated Press - By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated PressJay Jenkins says he hesitated when a buddy suggested they vape CBD. The vapor that Jenkins inhaled didn't relax him. After two puffs, he ended up in a coma. That's because what he was vaping didn't have
Lingerie ThirdLove says it’s by women, for women. But women who’ve worked there disagree.Vox - Zoe SchifferThe fiercely worded letter ran as a full-page ad in the New York Times on Sunday, November 18, and took direct aim at Victoria’s Secret. “I was appalled when I saw the demeaning comments about women your
Science 10 of the Toughest Math Problems Ever SolvedPopular Mechanics - By Dave LinkletterEarlier this week, a math puzzle that had stumped mathematicians for decades was finally solved. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it’s sometimes known as the “summing of three cubes”: Find x, y,
Radiation Of Science, Fear, and Nuclear Radiationundark.org - Mark Wolverton Some critics argue that our current approach to regulating radiation does more harm than good. But many scientists say it’s the best method we’ve got. …
Play buttonRic Ocasek Why Ric Ocasek Was the Ultimate New Wave VoiceRolling Stone - Rob Sheffield Ric Ocasek was one of the all-time great American songwriters: the spirit of Buddy Holly in the body and mind of Mr. Spock, a new wave eccentric who …
Music The Cars' 15 Greatest Songs: Critic's Picksbillboard.com - Andrew Unterberger The Cars were The Cars in both form and function. Their many hits throughout the late '70s and '80s were sleek, steady, piston-pumping pieces of …
Employment How 5G will reinvent “working from home”Quartz - Omar AbboshIt’s 10:00 am. Do you know where your employee is? No doubt they are working—somewhere. Thanks to greatly improved internet connectivity and workforce applications, employees in an increasing number of
Science Mysterious waves have been pulsing across OklahomaNational Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasA buzz that rocked the state all summer sent geologists on a labyrinthine chase—and unearthed new mysteries about how energy moves through land and air. It all started when a wave swept across Oklahoma
Science How Hackers Invented KiteboardingThe New Yorker - James SomersAn unusual design process combining recklessness, imagination, and computers created one of the fastest-growing sports in history. Just as he was graduating from high school, in 1990, Chris Moore had fanciful
Opinion Country Music Is More Diverse Than You ThinkThe New York TimesThis spring the rapper Lil Nas X, who is black, released “Old Town Road,” a twang-inflected song that rocketed to the top of the country music charts — even though Billboard temporarily removed it from
Play buttonCountry Music For Ken Burns, Country Music Tells the Story of Race, Class, and Inclusion in American HistoryEsquire - By Madison VainEight and a half years ago, the most famous documentarian of the modern era got down, metaphorically, on his knees and, as he likens it, "proposed to country music." It's the second genre that Ken Burns
Vaping 'I was non-stop Juuling up a storm': 10 college students on their vaping addictionsCNN - By Eric Levenson, CNN Photographs by Mark Kauzlarich for CNN(CNN) — The CDC, FDA, White House and a who's who of officials in suits want young people to stop using e-cigarettes amid a mysterious outbreak of hundreds of vaping-related lung illnesses. But what actual
Long-form Journalism Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seasThe Guardian - Ian UrbinaOn the night of 14 August 2010, the captain of a South Korean trawler, the Oyang 70, left Port Chalmers, New Zealand, for what would be his final journey. The ship was bound for fishing grounds about miles
Maine Life Lessons from a 97-Year-Old LobstermanOutside Magazine - Suzanne RicoIf the definition of a true outdoorsman is spending more of your life braving the elements than seeking shelter from them, lobsterman John Olson may be the finest example alive. On Halloween morning last
Women's Fashion The Hottest Accessory Is Someone Dressed Exactly Like YouThe Daily Beast - Alaina Demopoulos Fashion Week stomped in and out of New York like Working Girl's Melanie Griffith in her commuter Reeboks (which, incidentally, were seen on a few …
Culture The mysterious Tinder catfish that ensnared 16 women in a single nightCNET - Daniel Van Boom Swipe left.
San Francisco, CA What if I were homeless? An immersion course in empathy in San Francisco’s TenderloinLos Angeles Times - Nita LelyveldImagine that you are homeless, that you have no money, that you have spent the night wary and watchful, huddled on hard city sidewalk. Imagine that you are exhausted. Feel how your hunger gnaws. Join line
Culture Paint It LoudGQ - Scott Indrisek Meet Katherine Bernhardt, the so-called “female bad-boy” of contemporary art. “I guess that's my aesthetic,” Bernhardt says, “raw, stained, messy, using-your-hand-in-it art.”
Kickstarter Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoilslate.com - April Glaser How a Nazi-punching satire led to the first union drive at a well-known tech company—and, workers say, the firing of two organizers in eight …
The Feel Good Project38% of R29 readers are stressed about planning for their futures and managing their priorities. So many young women feel like they are failing, falling short, or need to make a change when it comes to their careers, finances, relationships, mental and physical wellness, and sex lives. This package is dedicated to making our readers feel like they have their lives under control, they are taking charge of their futures, and they are making positive changes to achieve success, in whatever form it takes. Simply put, we want to make young women feel like they are nailing it, and here we will lead the conversations and provide the tools that will help them to do so.
Newfoundland and Labrador The Capital of KindnessThe Washington Post MagazineOn 9/11, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador showed stranded travelers the true meaning of compassion. And that’s how it became a tourist destination. Dianne Flynn pressed play on the stereo
Long-form Journalism Two Sisters and the Terrorist Who Came Between ThemElle - By Jessica RoyWe’re here to determine whether the woman is a terrorist, but all Lori sees is her sister. The gait and the posture she would recognize anywhere, even through her khaki prison uniform. The tattoo, a pair
Film (UK) From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secretsGuardian US - Stephen KinzerGlass shattered high above Seventh Avenue in Manhattan before dawn on a cold November morning in 1953. Seconds later, a body hit the sidewalk. Jimmy, the doorman at the Statler hotel, was momentarily Then
Driving After devastating fires, Paradise football team gives a community hopeESPN - Tim Keown • Senior Writer for ESPN The Magazine • Columnist for ESPN.com • Author of five books (3 NYT best-sellers) E:60's prime-time debut, featuring a story on the …
Robert Frank How Robert Frank's Vision Influenced And Inspired Generations Of PhotographersNPR - Keith JenkinsIn an era when photographs are produced by the hundreds of thousands every second, the death of photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank on Monday presents an opportunity: not only to mourn him, but to
