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The Original Attention Crisis - Cal Newport

I recently heard from a historian of science at All Souls College, Oxford. He forwarded me ​an essay​ he wrote about Nicolaus Steno, a seventeenth-ce…

Why ‘things to read instead of doomscrolling’ won’t actually fix your doomscrolling

A habit built solely to negatively drive out another will inevitably lead to either relapse or irritation

‘How to Live in this World’ | J. Krishnamurti

Questioner: Please, sir, could you tell me how I am to live in this world? I don’t want to be part of it yet I have to live in it, I have to have a h…

Russia Has Massed 500 Tanks For An Attack On Kupyansk. Thousands Of Ukrainian Drones Await Them.

Can a swarm of two-pound drones, even thousands of them, defeat 500 tanks and 650 fighting vehicles as they attack behind a wall of artillery fire? W…

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Mitt Romney’s checks plan: up to $350 per month, per kid for parents

Why do we need to be right?

Pokémon Legends: Arceus Review

Jennifer Rudolph Walsh on Breaking the Busy Stigma, Finding Essentialness, and Transcending Bullshit | Goop

9 Questions Interesting People Ask to Cut Through the Small Talk

An Astronaut's Guide to Mental Models

| J. Krishnamurti

On writing better documents

¡A´hooo!, el grito de resistencia de Los cogelones, desde Neza

The Translator’s Funeral, a new short story by Rónán Hession

Forget the Iowa Fiasco. Trump Is the Democrats’ Real Problem.

Choosing Love: Scarlett Lewis on Overcoming Tragedy

American torture

Katy: a short story by Bryan Washington

Diamonds Aren’t Special and Neither Is Your Love

Is the "Death Drive" Real?

Better logging with Emoji

The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S.

The Untold History of Facebook’s Most Controversial Growth Tool

Deliberate Anti-Productivity

How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)

Apple Privacy Chief: North Dakota Bill 'Threatens to Destroy the iPhone as You Know It'

Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light

Spotify Invents A New Way To Recommend Music—By Monitoring Your Speech

5 ways to support parents right now

Thunder in Her Head - The American Scholar

11 Habits that changed my life (and will yours too)

Media that matters: Peter Walker talks Digital Media Art

Music in the age of algorithm

Preparing For The End Of The World, On A Budget

Billions of Locusts Are Swarming East Africa

How White nationalists evade the law and continue profiting off hate - CNN

Learning to Love in the Wilds of Our Bodies - Gay Mag

How creatives win friends, influence people and break the internet

Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was — Are.na

Sweet syrupy love