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Failure to Launch?
Curated by
Mia Quagliarello,
Head of Creator Community and Newsletters, Flipboard
True community-building requires more than renting a mansion in Beverly Hills. The sordid tale of how Launch House lost its sparkle is hard to put down. Next, “The Match” is an immersive read about a generation of Europeans searching for their birth mothers in Sri Lanka. Then we’ve got pieces about the science of memory and living longer. I close with an annual tradition: Tycho’s always-sublime sunrise set from Burning Man.
Two dozen tech founders living in a mansion. What could go wrong?
Vox · Rebecca Jennings
The people here are young and friendly and full of hope. And why shouldn’t they be? For one month, they get to live in a mansion in Beverly Hills…
The Match
fiftytwo.in · Bhavya Dore
A generation of Europeans is now returning to Sri Lanka, a country from which they were adopted as children, to search for their birth mothers. What …
A New Approach to Domestic Violence
POLITICO · By Joanne Kenen
There’s a quiet movement underway to have doctors and other health care providers take the lead in spotting domestic abuse and — hopefully — intervening…
A Good Memory or a Bad One? One Brain Molecule Decides.
Quanta Magazine · Yasemin Saplakoglu
When the brain encodes memories as positive or negative, one molecule determines which way they will go. You’re on the vacation of a lifetime in …
Want to live longer? Influence your genes.
nationalgeographic.co.uk · By Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
By making healthy lifestyle choices, you can self-engineer genetic alterations to prevent disease and boost longevity. Take a moment to visualise your…
The New Rules of Work Clothes
Harvard Business Review · Allison Shapira
After two years of hastily throwing a business jacket over a T-shirt and sweatpants while letting people into our homes during the Covid-19 pandemic,…
How Do You Make the Perfect Toy?
thewalrus.ca · Matthew Braga
Fads come and go, but how to create a toy that stands the test of time is the billion-dollar questionThe post How Do You Make the Perfect Toy? first …
Karen O Has Found a More Joyful Kind of Wildness
The New Yorker · Jia Tolentino
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman on recording the band’s new album, becoming a mother, and meeting other rock stars who look like her. Karen O, born…
Listen to Tycho’s Sublime 2022 Burning Man Sunrise Set
stoneyroads.com · stoneyroads.com
There are three guarantees in life; death, taxes and Tychos annual sunrise set at Burning Man. The set has been running for what looks like, almost a …
What to expect from NCIS, American Gigolo, The Good Doctor, and 28 other fall shows
Entertainment Weekly · EW Staff
Murder! Mystery! And … Chucky? With so many shows premiering in the coming months, we’re here to give you the intel on what to expect. Here’s a…
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