Category: Lifestyle
Why was a Laughing Woman Seen as Lethal, Not Least to Herself?
Maggie Hennefeld at Psyche: As I argue in my new book, Death by Laughter: Female…
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Veronique Greenwood in Harvard Magazine: IN THE LATE 2000s, Rachel Carmody was spending a lot of time…
Thirty Years of Talking About Pablo Escobar
Juan Gabriel Vásquez in El Pais: Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug trafficker in history,…
The Average American Is a Millionaire
Jeremy Horpedahl in The City Journal: The Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances contains several revelations about…
The Institute of Illegal Images
Erik Davis at The Paris Review: The Institute of Illegal Images (III) is housed in…
Mounting Research Shows That COVID-19 Leaves its Mark on the Brain, Including With Significant Drops in IQ Scores
Ziyad Al-Aly in The Conversation: From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as…
The Mysteries and Quirks of Human Memory
Erica Goode in Undark: AUTHORS DON’T GET to choose what’s going on in the world when…
How the World Made the West
Steven Poole at The Guardian: “Western civilisation” would not exist without its Islamic, African, Indian…
AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class
David Autor in Noema Magazine: In a recent interview with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak,…
About The New Disability Media
By Faye Ginsburg and B. Ruby Rich at Film Quarterly Dossier: This dossier has been…
From Rags to Riches, or the Multifaceted Progress of Lady
By Anatoly Liberman at OUP Blog: Every English dictionary with even minimal information on word…
What is Stoicism
Stoicism teaches the development of self-control as a means of overcoming destructive emotions; the philosophy…