Dear Pepper: A Writing Relationship, and a Fading Friend
Liana Finck offers advice for how to handle a demanding relationship and what to do when a friend starts to pull away.
The Central Question Behind Facebook: ‘What Does Mark Zuckerberg Believe In?’
Facebook and its CEO have come up against “a growing and really serious decline of public trust, both among politicians and among the general public,” New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos says.
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This Teen Got Invited To A “Celebration Of Life” After Getting Invited By Accident And People Love Her Response
Here Are The Winners Of The 2018 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants
From engineering to economics, from painting to planetary science, the range of this year’s class is vast. But the MacArthur Foundation expects them all to do big things with their newfound $625,000.
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MacArthur Fellow Matthew Aucoin Talks Composing And Donating His ‘Genius’ Money
The 28-year-old polymath from Boston discusses his new award, his precocious youth and how he perceives all human language as a form of musical communication.
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Austin Baker Rekindles Interest In The Mysterious Mesquite Bean
When an Austin neuroscientist-turned-baker dove deeply into a box of Peruvian mesquite flour on a lark, he found a forgotten, flavorful and nutritious bean that was once vital to Native Americans.
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Pence Spends 621st Straight Sinful Day Coveting His Neighbor’s Job
33 Things That’ll Actually Make You Want To Organize Everything
Daily Affirmations for Anthony Kennedy
In a humor piece, Jed Feiman and Nehemiah Markos imagine the daily affirmations of the former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.