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A Powerful Idea About Our Brains Stormed Pop Culture and Captured Minds. It’s Mostly Bunk.
slate.com · Jane C. Hu
The strange history of a persistent myth.
The Hospice Hustle
propublica.org · Ava Kofman
Half of all Americans now die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an …
Who Gets to Be Mentally Ill?
thewalrus.ca · K. J. Aiello
Today, people talk about seeing a therapist like they’re going to the dentist. But our compassion around mental health still excludes the people who …
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The rules of improv can make you funnier. They can also make you more confident.
NPR · Oluwakemi Aladesuyi, Audrey Nguyen
When I moved to New York a couple of years ago, I threw myself into all the activities one typically does when they move to the city. I saw shows on…
Graffiti, flyers, word of mouth: China’s protesters embrace low-tech organizing to escape surveillance
restofworld.org · Viola Zhou and Meaghan Tobin
Little A, a university student in Shanghai, wouldn’t have known about the protest if a friend hadn’t told him to bypass the Great Firewall on Nov 27 …
In Alaska, a Mystery Over Disappearing Whales
Undark Magazine · Saima May Sidik
Belugas pass cultural knowledge across generations. Their survival may depend on how they collectively adapt. When Roswell Schaeffer Sr. was 8 years …
‘The more we pulled back the carpet, the more we saw’: what I learned when I bought a house with a dark past
The Guardian · Matt Blake
In January 2021, 18 months after a sticky divorce, I bought a house. I bought it partly because I could – my ex-wife and I had got lucky on the property…
How Wednesday Addams Birthed a Generation of Cynics
longreads.com · Emily Alford
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Emily Alford | Longreads | November 23, 2022 | 8 minutes…
Stop watching movie trailers
Vox · Alissa Wilkinson
It’s the holidays, so I’m going to let you in on one neat trick to start enjoying movies more: Stop watching trailers. At best they’ll just show you…
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