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Why Does It Feel Like Everyone Has More Money Than You? by Jen Doll - Financial help from parents comes in many forms, and it’s the basis of so many success stories. So why do millennials act like it doesn't exist?
The Radical Moral Implications of Luck in Human Life by David Roberts - Acknowledging the role of luck is the secular equivalent of religious awakening
Why it Pays to be Privileged by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison - Within Britain’s elite occupations, the advantages of class are still mistaken for talent
The Greatest Privilege We Never Talk About by Saeid Fard - The benefits of being attractive are exorbitant. Beauty might be the single greatest physical advantage you can have in life.
How a Nepo Baby Is Born by Nate Jones - Hollywood has always loved the children of famous people. In 2022, the internet reduced them to two little words…
We've had several requests for a list of the best writing by black authors to read online, and we finally got around to putting one together. Click through for a huge collection of great reads, including classic essays from James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Roxane Gay and Malcolm Gladwell, plus hard-hitting articles by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Nicole Hannah-Jones and much, much more. Enjoy!
Over the last few years, AI has gone from an academic discipline to a real-world product used by millions of people. That transformation raises all kinds of questions about the technology and its impact on our lives. Click through for 10 of the best articles and essays about AI that examine this crucial subject from all kinds of fascinating perspectives.
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He's one of the best science writers around -- he seems to be interested in everything and has an amazing ability to make any subject fascinating. Click through for 20 of Philip Ball's best articles from around the net.
The Untold Story of Silk Road by Joshuah BearmanThe postman only rang once. Curtis Green was at home, greeting the morning with 64 ounces of Coca-Cola and powdered mini doughnuts...
The Crypto Trap by Andy GreenbergInside the Bitcoin bust that took down the web’s biggest child abuse site...
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin by Andy GreenbergThe notorious Alpha02 oversaw millions of dollars a day in online narcotic sales. For cybercrime detectives, he was public enemy number one—and a total mystery...
Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones by Ed CaesarDrug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. They were wrong—big time...
The Unbelievable Tale of a Fake Hitman, a Kill List, a Darknet Vigilante... and a Murder by Gian M. VolpicellHitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless...
The Science of Love by Barbara Fredrickson - We each carry an intricate machinery of love, calibrating and attuning our moods and bodies to one another
The Rejection Lab by Alison Kinney - What can researching human responses to rejection tell us about ourselves?
Love Is Like Cocaine by Helen Fisher - From ecstasy to withdrawal, the lover resembles an addict
Endless Love by Aaron Ben-Ze’ev - We no longer expect passion to last a lifetime, but some couples do stay in love to the end. What’s their secret?
Love by Lauren Slater - Scientists say that the brain chemistry of infatuation is akin to mental illness—which gives new meaning to ‘madly in love'
The Most Dangerous Idea in Mental Health by Ed Cara - The belief that hidden memories can be "recovered" in therapy should have been exorcised years ago...
Darkness Visible by William Styron - A journey through depression
Adventures in Depression by Allie Brosh - I just woke up one day feeling sad and helpless for absolutely no reason
Surviving Anxiety by Scott Stossel - How I came to terms with the nation's most common mental illness
Understanding the Anxious Mind by Robin Marantz Henig - Some people are just born worriers
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach - How mental illness re-shapes a marriage
Is PTSD Contagious? by Mac McClelland - It’s rampant among returning vets—and now their spouses and kids are starting to show the same symptoms
Psychopaths and the Rest of Us by Laura Smith - Searching for empathy with those society deems unforgivable
The Truth About Autism by David Wolman - Reconsidering the autistic brain
The Reality Show by Mike Jay - Schizophrenics used to see demons and spirits. Now they talk about actors and hidden cameras
Is Old Music Killing New Music? by Ted Gioia - Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.
The Dark Art of Mastering Music by Jordan Kisner - Shedding light on the elusive studio practice that’s all but necessary to make music sound great.
The Last Time New York Was Hardcore by Michael Stahl - In the ’90s, one high-octane underground music scene desperately held on to its rebellious roots of power chords, slam dancing and stage diving. What happened to hardcore?
Some Notes on Attunement by Zadie Smith - A voyage around Joni Mitchell
Is There Anything Left Of Hip Hop? by Jason England - Hip hop has reached its midlife crisis
The Problem With Saying Oontz Oontz by Spencer Kornhaber - The story of dance music in America is a story of boom and backlash. As Beyoncé and Drake turn to house-inspired sounds, will the cycle happen again?
Why Do We Even Listen to New Music? by Jeremy D. Larson - Our brains reward us for seeking out what we already know. So why should we reach to listen to something we don’t?
How Twitter Changed Music by Eric Harvey - Hashtag rap! Kanye rants! Terrifying stan pile-ons! For better and worse, Twitter has forever altered the music landscape.
What Will Happen When Machines Write Songs Just as Well as Your Favorite Musician? by Clive Thompson - Artificial intelligence tools will hurt some musicians and help others.
The Violin Doctor by Elly Fishman - He’s trusted to repair some of the world’s most fabled — and expensive — instruments. How does John Becker manage to unlock the sound of a Stradivarius?
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Things We Think We Know by Chuck Klosterman - We all hate stereotypes. Except we don't...
Crazy Love by Steven Pinker - Why love is like insanity...
Small, Yes, but Mighty by Natalie Angier - The molecule called water
Why You Are Unhappy by Tim Urban - Happiness = reality - expectations
Keep Your Identity Small by Paul Graham - Politics, like religion, is a topic with no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion...
What No One Else Will Tell You About Feminism by Lindy West - Guess what? You're a feminist
Adventures in Depression by Allie Brosh - Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me...
The Onset by My Ngoc To - When I was about six weeks old and still inside my mother, my milk lines formed...
Phoning It In by Stanley Bing - She gave me this long and involved story about a huge slight that was inflicted on her operation by some other entity someplace, and I was looking out the window and thinking, whoa, look at that BMW Z8
A Brief History of Forever by Tavi Gevinson - Forever is the state, exclusive to those between the ages of 13 and 17...
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - The center was not holding. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who misspelled even the four-letter words they scrawled...
Goodbye to All That - When I first saw New York some instinct, programmed by all the movies I had ever seen and all the songs I had ever heard about New York, informed me that things would never be quite the same again...
Holy Water - Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive...
Why I Write - Exploring the art of writing, and what it means to the author...
The Women's Movement - To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism...
The Santa Ana - There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow...
After Life - In the aftermath of her husband's death, Didion meditates on the fickle fragility of life...
On Self Respect - Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself...
Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History - A startlingly insightful account of the ideological aftermath of 9/11...
On Keeping a Notebook - A beautiful meditation on keeping notes that explores the heart of the writing process...
On Maintenance - Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food...
A Few Words about Breasts - I was boyish. I wanted desperately not to be that way, not to be a mixture of both things, but instead just one, a girl. As soft and as pink as a nursery. And nothing would do that for me, I felt, but breasts...
The Graduate - It was gritty and glamorous and everything I'd been longing for—to begin my life in New York as a journalist...
The D Word - The most important thing about me, for quite a long chunk of my life, was that I was divorced. Even after I was no longer divorced but remarried, this was true...
I Remember Nothing - Once I went to a store to buy a book about Alzheimer's disease and forgot the name of it...
Be the Heroine of Your Life - Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady...
My Life as an Heiress - The will that wouldn’t...
Moving On, a Love Story - To move into the Apthorp was to enter a state of giddy, rent-stabilized delirium...
My Mother’s Mink Coat - Nora Ephron never wanted a mink coat until her mother died. Then she wanted her mother’s coat. So did her sister...
The Lost Strudel - FOOD vanishes. I don't mean food as habit, food as memory, food as biography, food as metaphor, food as regret, food as love. I mean food as food. Food vanishes...
The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here by Will Knight - Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next age of conflict.
Putin has Redrawn the World - But Not the Way He Wanted by Allan Little - We are living in new and more dangerous times.
The Age of American Naval Dominance Is Over by Jerry Hendrix - The United States has ceded the oceans to its enemies. We can no longer take freedom of the seas for granted.
How an Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab for Cyberwar by Andy Greenberg - Blackouts in Ukraine were just a trial run. Russian hackers are learning to sabotage infrastructure—and the US could be next.
The Most Devastating Cyberattack in History by Andy Greenberg - Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.
The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman by Jia Tolentino - How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization...
Somewhere Worse by Jia Tolentino - We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy
The Age of Instagram Face by Jia Tolentino - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston by Jia Tolentino - Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life
No Offense by Jia Tolentino - The offense is supposed to go somewhere and do something. Of course, in practice, that’s not what happens at all
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Why I Write by Joan Didion - Exploring the art of writing, and what it means to the author
Autobiographical Notes by James Baldwin - I was born in Harlem thirty-one years ago. I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read...
Write Till You Drop by Annie Dillard - "Do you think I could be a writer?" "I don't know. . . . Do you like sentences?"
The Nature of the Fun by David Foster Wallace - "A book-in-progress is a kind of hideously damaged infant that follows the writer around wanting love, wanting the very thing its hideousness guarantees it'll get: the writer's complete attention."
That Crafty Feeling by Zadie Smith - "What I have to say about craft extends no further than my own experience, which is what it is - 12 years and three novels."
How To Write With Style by Kurt Vonnegut - Why should you examine your writing style with the idea of improving it?
Where Do You Get Your Ideas? by Neil Gaiman - A meditation on inspiration
Why They Aren’t Writing the Great American Novel Anymore by Tom Wolfe - A treatise on the Varieties of Realistic Experience
Everything you Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes by Stephen King - Short, sharp advice on everything from talent and self-criticism to having fun and entertaining your audience
Write Like a Motherfucker by Cheryl Strayed - Raw, emotional adivce on the role of humility and surrender in the often tortured world of the writer
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