Graduate School The man who wants to make university degrees obsoleteBBC News - José Luis PeñarredondaVega believes “there is nothing university offers that Platzi cannot offer” (Credit: Sergio Fabara) These abilities are in high demand in Latin America, the region with the biggest skills gap in the formal
Coinbase The Serious Money Is Warming to BitcoinWIRED - Gregory Barber There’s an arms race afoot over who can store cryptocurrency safest. Perhaps you’d like your bitcoin buried in a vault under a mountain in the Swiss …
Happiness Don't retire early, buy a home, or be a lawyer if you want to be happy, researchers say — here's whyCNBC - Alex Palmer, Contributor In an age of anxiety and uncertainty, Americans are more stressed than ever. So it's no surprise that we're all searching for ways to add more …
The Brain What does running do to your brain?The GuardianNeuroscientists have studied treadmill runners, ultramarathon athletes – and a number of lab animals – to investigate the effects of running on grey matter It may seem obvious – as you push on through
Amazon Alexa The results are in: Alexa is legitimately dumber than Siri and Google AssistantDigital Trends - Emily Price The venture capital firm recently asked Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant the same 800 questions. Google Assistant was the most …
Mukesh Ambani India’s Richest Man Is Turning Cautious. Bad SignBloomberg - Andy Mukherjee Does Mukesh Ambani see dark clouds gathering on the horizon? From his message to shareholders, it doesn’t look like India’s richest tycoon is …
Media Industry Maybe facts don’t care about your feelings — but political polarization is about feelings, not factsNieman Lab - Robert B. TalisseDiversifying your media diet might help prevent political polarization — but it may not reverse the polarization once it’s taken effect. Politicians and pundits from all quarters often lament democracy’s
Kashmir Opinion | Let us grant Kashmir freedom from Indian aestheticslivemint.com - Manu Joseph The liberation of Kashmir from its own elite in the name of ‘development’ may actually be appreciated When Indian politicians talk of “development" we …
Mobile Technology Believe it or not, study shows e-bike riders get more exercise than cyclistsElectrek - Micah TollElectric bicycle riders have always known that e-bikes can actually be a great form of exercise. But a new study now shows that e-bikes can actually result in riders getting more exercise than standard
Cybersecurity Hackers Can Turn Everyday Speakers Into Acoustic CyberweaponsWIRED - Lily Hay Newman Speakers are everywhere, whether it's expensive, standalone sound systems, laptops, smart home devices, or cheap portables. And while you rely on …
Opinion Ditch your air-conditioning. You'll be fineThe Guardian - Franklin SchneiderWe think of air conditioning as a “first world” luxury, but it’s really more of an American one. In Europe, fewer than 5% of households have air conditioning, according to the International Energy Agency,
Time Management What Makes Some People More Productive Than OthersHarvard Business Review - Robert C. Pozen and Kevin DowneyWe’ve learned a lot about personal productivity and what makes some people more productive than others. Last year we published a survey to help professionals assess their own personal productivity — defined
Lifestyle (UK) I feel lonely and ashamed that I don’t have any friendsThe Guardian - Mariella FrostrupProactive behaviour will eventually earn you the results you’re after The dilemma I’m 40 and a full-time working mother of two teenagers. I have zero friends and few acquaintances. Spending time with husband
Technology The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the InternetThe New York Times - By STEVEN STROGATZMathematical Twitter is normally a quiet, well-ordered place, a refuge from the aggravations of the internet. But on July 28, someone who must have been a troll off-duty decided to upset the stillness,
Sleep You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing YouWIRED - Condé Nast But particularly me. As I write this, I’m at TED 2019 in Vancouver, which is a weeklong marathon of talks and workshops and coffee meetings and …
Long-form Journalism The Radical Transformation of the TextbookWIRED - Brian Barrett For several decades, textbook publishers followed the same basic model: Pitch a hefty tome of knowledge to faculty for inclusion in lesson plans; …
Drinking 'Everything is better without alcohol, and I really do mean everything': readers on drinkingThe Guardian - Guardian readersThis week Gay Alcorn wrote about giving up alcohol for a month and how she was not prepared for the impact it had. She wrote: I drank to pretend that my life was more interesting than it was, to escape
Edward Snowden Edward Snowden says Facebook is spying on youMashable - Jack MorseThe U.S. government is not the only one that's watching you. So warns famed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who on Thursday called Facebook to task for spying on its users. What's more, he promised teach
U.S. Politics “The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker PearsonRecode - Eric Johnson“There’s a famous phrase: The first step in solving a problem is recognizing you’ve got one,” says Pearson CEO John Fallon. And for education company Pearson, the problem is also one of its key products:
E-Mail How to write an email that will actually get a response, according to 5 self-made millionairesCNBC - The Oracles, Contributor Have you ever sent an important email...only to hear nothing back? In this day and age of overflowing inboxes, it takes a lot of strategy and effort …
Visceral The man who can remember every day of his lifeBBC FutureSome think it’s a blessing, others think it’s a curse. Bob Petrella can remember every moment of his life, in visceral detail. Bob Petrella can recall any moment from his past. Called highly superior memory,
Trends More people than ever before are single – and that’s a good thingTNT - Bella DePaulo Today, the number of single adults in the U.S. – and many other nations around the world – is unprecedented. And the numbers don’t just say people …
Friendship Why I choose not to have a BFF anymoreTNT - Ananya Singh I find it empowering of being able to take my own decisions without consulting my BFF every step of the way.The post Why I choose not to have a BFF …
Lead Poisoning What does the dust in your home mean for your health?TNT - Gabriel Filippelli Some ingredients in those tiny particles can have big impacts.The post What does the dust in your home mean for your health? appeared first on The …
Hollywood Hills Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Tarantino’s Best in YearsThe Atlantic - David SimsAn epic and melancholy hangout film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a film star grappling with his looming irrelevance. Rick Dalton is good at playing cowboys. At the start of
After all this, the love was left to destinyTNT - Harshita Dagha And guess what, everything that person knows about you is what you tell them.The post After all this, the love was left to destiny appeared first on …
Lifestyle (UK) They became millionaires and retired at 31. They think you can do the sameThe Guardian - Miranda BryantIt really makes people question their lives and they don’t like that because it’s scary Kristy Shen If everybody was FI [financially independent], Trump wouldn’t have got elected. Bryce Leung Growing in
The internet is surprisingly fragile, crashes thousands of times a year, and no one is making it strongerTNT - Vasileios Giotsas Like a road network, the internet has its own highways and intersections that consist of cables and routers.The post The internet is surprisingly …
Long-form Journalism "The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck" Author Actually Gives A Fewbuzzfeednews.com - Zan Romanoff Mark Manson, the bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck and Everything Is Fucked, thinks we should stop complaining so …
How A 10-Year-Old Boy Helped Apollo 11 Return To EarthNPR - Josh AxelrodThis story is part of the StoryCorps series of conversations. A half-century ago, America's dreams were realized in space. The power of U.S. innovation and spirit took the Apollo 11 crew to the moon and
