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9 Questions Interesting People Ask to Cut Through the Small Talk

It alls starts with having a genuine interest in the other person.

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?

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…

Better logging with Emoji

Apple’s developer tools provide a rich variety of debugging aids. Sometimes though, it’s useful to do things the old fashioned way. With debugging, t…

The Untold History of Facebook’s Most Controversial Growth Tool

How Facebook invented the 'People You May Know' feature. An exclusive excerpt from 'Facebook: The Inside Story'

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

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

5 ways to support parents right now

Thunder in Her Head - The American Scholar

Media that matters: Peter Walker talks Digital Media Art

Billions of Locusts Are Swarming East Africa

How creatives win friends, influence people and break the internet

Music in the age of algorithm

Sweet syrupy love

Rip Tide - The American Scholar

Preparing For The End Of The World, On A Budget

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

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

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

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

The Incredible Shrinking Political Party

American Dirt: A Bridge to Nowhere

My Internship in Japan: Minamata

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

The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon

My Internship in Japan: Kyushu travels I

The Husband Stitch Isn’t Just a Horrifying Childbirth Myth

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

Will Self: How Should We Read?

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

How Ghost Kitchens Took Over America's Restaurants | Marker

Miles to Go - The American Scholar

Devastating solar storms could be far more common than we thought

The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class

Introduction (by Marc Andreessen)

Procrastination

The mystery of why some people become sudden geniuses