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Kat Rosenfield at The Free Press: Five years ago, all my girlfriends suddenly decided to abandon their husbands en masse. That is how it seemed at the time, at least.
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by Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: In 1494, the expansionary Iberian powers negotiated the Treaty of Tordesillas to officially divvy up the planet’s freshly discovered regions beyond Europe. Over 370
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Maggie Hennefeld at Psyche: As I argue in my new book, Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (2024), fun-loving women were being terrorised into believing that their unrestrained
Continue readingWhy was a Laughing Woman Seen as Lethal, Not Least to Herself?
Veronique Greenwood in Harvard Magazine: IN THE LATE 2000s, Rachel Carmody was spending a lot of time counting calories. An anthropology graduate student at Harvard, she was studying whether cooking changed the
Juan Gabriel Vásquez in El Pais: Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug trafficker in history, was shot dead on the rooftops of Medellín. He had escaped 16 months earlier from La
Jeremy Horpedahl in The City Journal: The Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances contains several revelations about the state of the American economy. First, it found that the average American household’s net worth
Erik Davis at The Paris Review: The Institute of Illegal Images (III) is housed in a dilapidated shotgun Victorian in San Francisco’s Mission District, which also happens to be the
Ziyad Al-Aly in The Conversation: From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as a significant health condition that many experience after COVID-19. Brain fog is a colloquial term that
Erica Goode in Undark: AUTHORS DON’T GET to choose what’s going on in the world when their books are published. More than a few luckless writers ended up with a publication
Steven Poole at The Guardian: “Western civilisation” would not exist without its Islamic, African, Indian and Chinese influences. To understand why, Quinn takes us back in time, beginning at the
David Autor in Noema Magazine: In a recent interview with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Elon Musk proclaimed artificial intelligence to be “the most disruptive force in history,” and noted that “there
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By Faye Ginsburg and B. Ruby Rich at Film Quarterly Dossier: This dossier has been inspired by an unprecedented and exciting surge in New Disability Media, a movement in which