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Diamonds Aren’t Special and Neither Is Your Love

We’ve coupled love to marriage and marriage to gems, and all three thrive on the assumption of rarity. What would it mean for love to be common?

Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It | The New Yorker

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Preparing For The End Of The World, On A Budget

Doomsday prepper properties designed to ride out societal collapse are growing in popularity. Fortitude Ranch in Colorado aims to make bunkers afford…

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

Humour in poems has the power to promote reflective thinking.

Is the "Death Drive" Real?

Statistically, at least ten people reading this article will be dead within sixteen months. I just made that statistic up, but if you felt a little f…

The Untold History of Facebook’s Most Controversial Growth Tool

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

Deliberate Anti-Productivity

Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light

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

Media that matters: Peter Walker talks Digital Media Art

Thunder in Her Head - The American Scholar

5 ways to support parents right now

Rip Tide - The American Scholar

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

How creatives win friends, influence people and break the internet

Billions of Locusts Are Swarming East Africa

Sweet syrupy love

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

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

Music in the age of algorithm

The Incredible Shrinking Political Party

American Dirt: A Bridge to Nowhere

Tesla running on ‘Autopilot’ repeatedly veered toward the spot where Apple engineer later crashed and died, federal investigators say

A Reality Check for Steinbeck and Charley

15 Essential Things To Know Before Driving in Sicily — ALONG DUSTY ROADS

My Internship in Japan: Minamata

The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon

How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 2 - Wait But Why

The Husband Stitch Isn’t Just a Horrifying Childbirth Myth

My Internship in Japan: Kyushu travels I

Will Self: How Should We Read?

How Ghost Kitchens Took Over America's Restaurants | Marker

Macron refuses to rule out putting troops on ground in Ukraine in call to galvanise Europe

Devastating solar storms could be far more common than we thought

Miles to Go - The American Scholar

The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class

The mystery of why some people become sudden geniuses

Why Isn’t Law & Order Streaming Anywhere?

writing as autonomy

Procrastination