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NYTIMESTo Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now
To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and NowFocusing on core competence and outsourcing the rest has made U.S.…
NYTimesSemicolons: A Love Story
How Kurt Vonnegut taught one writer to hate the semicolon; how William James convinced him to love it.
NYTimesCan Crows Make Mental Pictures of Tools?
New Caledonian crows were trained to seek rewards by tearing paper of a certain size, demonstrating what researchers say is quite advanced toolmaking.
NYTIMESBuilding A.I. That Can Build A.I.
Google and others, fighting for a small pool of researchers, are looking for automated ways to deal with a shortage of artificial intelligence experts.
NYTimesThe Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar
Two decades ago, a renowned professor promised to produce a flawless version of one of the 20th century’s most celebrated novels: “Ulysses.” Then he disappeared.
NYTimesThe Blindness of Social Wealth
I summarize all this because loneliness and social isolation are the problem that undergird many of our other problems. More and more Americans are socially poor. And yet it is very hard for the socially wealthy to even see this fact. It is the very nature of loneliness and social isolation to be invisible. We talk as if the lonely don’t exist.
NYTimesThe Way Middle-Aged White Men Work Now
Before he goes to sleep, between 11 and midnight, Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, typically checks in by e-mail with the same reporter: Mike Allen of Politico, who is also the first reporter Pfeiffer corresponds with after he wakes up at 4:20.
NYTIMESDark Clouds Over the Internet
Governments have legitimate reasons to seek user data beyond their territorial reach, and privacy advocates ignore that need at their peril.
nytimesWhy Fiction Trumps Truth
We humans know more truths than any species on earth. Yet we also believe the most falsehoods.
nytimesYes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why?
It has eight arms, three hearts — and a plan. Scientists aren’t sure how the cephalopods got to be so intelligent.
NYTimesHow to Make This the Summer of Missing Out
What’s happening? Who cares. Meet JOMO, FOMO’s benevolent younger cousin.
NYTimesArchaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools Outside Africa
Chipped rocks found in western China indicate that human ancestors ventured from Africa earlier than previously believed.
NYTimesWhy Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not
Our well-being is local and relative — if you live in a struggling area and your status is slipping, even if you are relatively comfortable, you are probably at least a bit miserable.
NYTIMESMaria Popova Has Some Big Ideas
Maria Popova is the mastermind of Brain Pickings, one of the faster growing literary empires on the Internet, yet she is virtually unknown.
nytimesMindfulness: Getting Its Share of Attention
What is the sound of one hand texting? A term for mental training reaches the height of trendiness, and like yoga before it, may be leaving its mark. What is the sound of one hand texting?
nytimesAmericans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.
U.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled. But for people without much education, the real question is: Do those jobs pay enough to live on?
NYTimesEyeing Pornography That Uses the Holocaust as Titillation
In early-1960s Israel pornographic, possibly anti-Semitic novels that detailed sensational tales of the torture and rape of male concentration camp prisoners by curvaceous female Nazi guards rapidly rose from marginal pulp reading to mass-market popularity.
NYTIMESGala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange
Salvador Dalí‘s “Gala Placidia. Galatea of the Spheres” from 1952, for which his wife, Gala Dalí, was the model and muse. A new exhibition in Barcelona examines Gala as someone willing to play those roles, but also as a person eager to forge her own path as an artist.
NYTIMESThe Libertarian Fantasy
Phosphorus and Freedom. Free markets can’t solve all our problems. Just ask Toledo.
NYTIMESDid You Just Forget, or Is It Something More Serious?
Memory lapses that disrupt daily living or cause a person to withdraw from family are more serious than absent-mindedness or confusing names, experts said.
NYTIMESSolving the Riddles of an Early Astronomical Calculator
More than 100 years after it was found, and more than 2,000 years after it was believed to have been built, the Antikythera Mechanism continues to raise questions and provide answers.
NYTIMES‘Wilde in America,’ by David M. Friedman
A cultural historian argues that Oscar Wilde was among the first to realize that celebrity could come before accomplishment.
NYTIMESCrows May Learn Lessons From Death
A new study suggests the birds pay careful attention to their dead as a way to gather information about threats.
NYTIMESUmberto Eco: Exploring Imaginary Lands With One of Italy’s Masters of Fiction
The Italian novelist and thinker has published a coffee table book about legendary (but nonexistent) lands.
NYTIMESDalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded
In many ways, there has never been a better time to be alive. Violence plagues some corners of the world, and too many still live under the grip of tyrannical regimes. And although all the world’s major faiths teach love, compassion and tolerance, unthinkable violence is being perpetrated in the name of religion. ... what unites the two of us in friendship and collaboration is not shared politics or the same religion. It is something simpler: a shared belief in compassion, in human dignity, in the intrinsic usefulness of every person to contribute positively for a better and more meaningful world.
NYTIMES‘The Story of Ain’t,’
“A lot had happened to English since the early ’30s, including a world war and most of the New Deal. Also television, the civil rights movement, superhighways, Dr. Spock, rock ’n’ roll, the Bomb, rocket science, the cold war, Superman and the Kinsey reports. New words — and new meanings of old ones— were everywhere, like 'astronaut,' 'beatnik,' 'den mother' and 'satellite.' Into Webster’s Third they went.” Webster’s Third New International was scorned for being less judgmental than its predecessor.
NYTimesThe Thing Inside Your Cells That Might Determine How Long You Live
You may have forgotten about the nucleolus since you took biology class, but scientists think this structure inside every cell in your body may play an important role in aging.
NYTIMESRoman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’
The ruins were uncovered near the southeastern city of Vienne and have been called “probably the most exceptional find from the Roman era in years.”
NYTIMESHow Evil Is Tech?
Our devices consume our time and dilute our social interactions. Not long ago, tech was the coolest industry. Everybody wanted to work at Google, Facebook and Apple. But over the past year the mood has shifted.
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