How The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Began In A Mother’s Living Room Lab
“The language of type can be immensely clarifying,” says author Merve Emre. In The Personality Brokers she describes how a mother-daughter duo started a multi-million dollar “people sorting” industry.
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New Documentary Explores Shape-Shifting Comedy Of Gilda Radner
Love, Gilda, explores the life of one of the original SNL cast members, Gilda Radner. NPR’s Melissa Block speaks to the director, Lisa D’Apolito, about the struggles Radner faced off camera.
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25 Awesome Office Products That’ll Actually Make You Excited To Work From Home
Whether your work space is an entire room or a simple desk, these products juuuust might make you excited to get crap done.
Fresh Air Weekend: Maggie Gyllenhaal; Breaking Free From The Purity Movement
Gyllenhaal takes on the power imbalance of sex work in The Deuce. Critic Justin Chang reviews The Sisters Brothers. Linda Kay Klein reflects on the shame caused by the Evangelical purity movement.
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How To Defend Season 2 Of ‘American Vandal’ Against Its Naysayers
Now that enough people have seen the second season of Netflix’s comedy/drama/true crime parody, your weekend will be full of people comparing it unfavorably to season one. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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Spooky Things That Have Happened Since They Opened That Sarcophagus in Egypt
Karen Chee and Riane Konc imagine a humorous account of mysterious things that have happened since a sarcophagus was opened in Egypt.
Not My Job: Gymnast Aly Raisman Plays A Game Called ‘Oy! A Vault!’
Gymnasts are experts in one kind of vault … but what about the kind you store your stuff in? Three questions for Olympian Aly Raisman, who has chronicled her career in the memoir Fierce.
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