How to Maintain Some Semblance of a Health Routine on VacationYes, letting loose is the whole point, but you still want to feel good on your trip—and when you get home.
Swap Your Meat for CheeseThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Times are tough for omnivores. By now, you’ve heard all the reasons to eat less meat: your health, the planet, the animals.
The telltale words that could identify generative AI textThus far, even AI companies have had trouble coming up with tools that can reliably detect when a piece of writing was generated using a large language model.
Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School VouchersProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story is exempt from our Creative Commons license until Oct. 29, 2024.
Do be a quitter! How I broke my exercise streak – and smashed my fitness goalsI don’t record every single run that I do, so I can’t tell you precisely how often I have laced up my trainers, or how far they have taken me in the last 10 years. But I track enough to know that I have run more than 1,849 times and 13,948km.
14 Fun Facts About ManateesThese roly-poly herbivores just may be the teddy bears of the sea. But keep an eye out when boating; they don’t move so fast.
New Parents Have Milestones, TooFlip through any baby book or parenting website (guilty) and you’ll find endless lists of the milestones your baby will hit during their first year of life: rolling over, babbling, pulling themself up, and on and on.
The Youngest Pandemic Children Are Now in School, and StrugglingThe pandemic’s babies, toddlers and preschoolers are now school-age, and the impact on them is becoming increasingly clear: Many are showing signs of being academically and developmentally behind.
How to Manage People Who Are Smarter Than You (or Think They Are)The ultimate test of your real talent as a manager is to create the conditions for talented people to deliver value, and to boost team performance.
How to Fry Fish: The Ultimate Guide on Everything from Oil Temperature to Batter RecipesHere’s your guide on how to fry fish like a pro.
The Sunflower and the Soul: Wendell Berry on the Collaborative Nature of the Universe and the Cure for Conflict“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” Walt Whitman wrote an epoch before the Nobel-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger examined the quantum conditions of existence to ask that urgent, discomposing question: “What justifies you in obstinately discovering… the difference betwee
6 Of The Most Passive-Aggressive Phrases You’re Probably Using (But Shouldn’t Be)Passive-aggressive behavior occurs frequently in everyday interactions with our friends, romantic partners, family members and co-workers. But because it can be insidious, you may not always recognize when it’s happening to you — or when you’re guilty of doing it yourself.
‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himselfThere’s a state that veteran Hollywood actors can reach, beyond ravenous ambition, but with retirement still distant, that seems to make them contented as professionals and mellow as people. Kevin Bacon, now 65, has hit that sweet spot.
Could the British Royal Family Have Saved the Romanovs?In 1909, 10 years before the assassination of the tsar and his family, two kings and their families gathered for a final meal. Could their bonds have changed history?
Norman Maclean Didn’t Publish Much. What He Did Contains EverythingWhen I am stuck on something I’m trying to write and have exhausted all the other options—ignoring the problem, staring blankly at the problem, moving the problem around to see if it’s less annoying in some other location, eating all the chocolate in the house—I eventually do what I should h
There's an Extremely Stupid Reason NASA Scientists Can't Study China's Amazing New Moon RocksEarlier this week, China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe landed in Inner Mongolia, delivering the first-ever samples collected from the far side of the Moon.
Making, and Eating, the 1950s’ Most Nauseating Jell-O Soaked RecipesUnlike the menus on contemporary food blogs and in best-selling recipe books, mid-century cooking seems guaranteed to make you gag.