‘No longer a luxury’: As life moves online, the offline fall behind

https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2020/0407/No-longer-a-luxury-As-life-moves-online-the-offline-fall-behind

Stoners cheered when Canada legalised cannabis. How did it go so wrong?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/05/stoners-cheered-when-canada-legalised-cannabis-how-did-it-all-go-wrong

Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things?

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-do-smart-people-do-foolish-things

Here There Be Whistlers: On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language are holding onto their culture as it slowly dies out.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/here-there-be-whistlers

Selfishness Is Learned

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/selfishness-is-learned

Mansplaining: New solutions to a tiresome old problem

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/mansplaining-new-solutions-to-a-tiresome-old-problem

How to Spot an Incompetent Leader

https://hbr.org/2020/03/how-to-spot-an-incompetent-leader

HOW HARD WILL THE ROBOTS MAKE US WORK? In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they’re making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/27/21155254/automation-robots-unemployment-jobs-vs-human-google-amazon

More women are in the workforce than men. Should we celebrate or be concerned?

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2020/1/19/21068930/women-workforce-gender-equality-gap

This map shows which companies have lasted hundreds (and even thousands) of years

https://www.fastcompany.com/90464459/this-map-shows-which-companies-have-lasted-hundreds-and-even-thousands-of-years

People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939qbz/people-born-blind-are-mysteriously-protected-from-schizophrenia

The Golden Age of White Collar Crime Elite lawbreaking is out of control. This is the grotesque story of an existential threat to American society.

https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime/

What Would Happen If the World Suddenly Went Vegetarian?

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-would-happen-if-the-world-suddenly-went-vegetarian

The Woman Shaking Up the Diamond Industry: Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/the-woman-shaking-up-the-diamond-industry

Why do so many incompetent men become leaders? And what can we do about it?

https://ideas.ted.com/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men-become-leaders-and-what-can-we-do-about-it

20 Online Courses That Will Make You More Successful in 2020

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/20-online-courses-that-will-make-you-more-successful-in-2020.html

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/

Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns

https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/review/2019/10/15/is-college-still-worth-it-the-new-calculus-of-falling-returns.pdf

Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/8/21051869/indoor-air-pollution-student-achievement

Why Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad

http://nautil.us/blog/-why-doing-good-makes-it-easier-to-be-bad

Do You Intimidate Others? Here's How to Know

https://www.inc.com/wanda-thibodeaux/do-you-intimidate-others-heres-how-to-know.html

How to Be a Good Listener: The Experts’ Guide

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-be-a-good-listener-the-experts-guide

‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’: The Ongoing Saga of Pop’s Most Contentious Song

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lion-sleeps-tonight-lion-king-update-879663/

In the Jungle: Inside the Long, Hidden Genealogy of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/in-the-jungle-inside-the-long-hidden-genealogy-of-the-lion-sleeps-tonight-108274/

When the Body Attacks the Mind

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/when-the-body-attacks-the-mind/485564/ttacks the Mind

Why You Can’t Help But Act Your Age

http://aging.nautil.us/feature/218/why-you-cant-help-but-act-your-age

The Secret Tricks Hidden Inside Restaurant Menus

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-secret-tricks-hidden-inside-restaurant-menus

What is Chocolate? Don't Go Through the Rest of Your Life Not Knowing

https://www.bonappetit.com/gallery/what-is-chocolate

Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive

http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/loyalty-nearly-killed-my-beehive-rp

Joseph in a cage, Mary on a raft: Should churches make political statements with Nativity scenes?

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2019/12/14/21004751/nativities-creches-political-statement-protest-nativities

12 People Talk Honestly About How They Paid Off Their Debt

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/paying-off-debt-millennials-student-loans

Let's Colonize Titan: Saturn's largest moon might be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/lets-colonize-titan/

Fact: Introverts Are Better Leaders than Extroverts

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/fact-introverts-are-better-leaders-than-extroverts.html

The Tragedy of the ‘Trans’ Child

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/12/09/the-tragedy-of-the-trans-child/

What One ER Doctor Has Learned From Witnessing His Son's Addiction Recovery

http://www.ldsliving.com/What-One-ER-Doctor-Has-Learned-From-Witnessing-His-Son-s-Addiction-Recovery/s/91915

Want to Raise Successful Boys? Science Says Do This (but Their Schools Probably Won't)

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/want-to-raise-successful-boys-science-says-do-this-but-their-schools-probably-wo.html

The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's

https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/joy-milne-can-smell-parkinson-s-before-it-is-diagnosed-a-1295601-2.html

Stupefied

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/stupefied

Having trouble sleeping? Try forgiving someone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/10/21/having-trouble-sleeping-try-forgiving-someone/

What a conservative New York Times columnist had to say to BYU students

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2019/10/22/20923897/david-brooks-byu-new-york-times-conservative-core-problem-democratic-character

A Johns Hopkins Study Reveals the Scientific Secret to Double How Fast You Learn

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/a-johns-hopkins-study-reveals-scientific-secret-to-double-how-fast-you-learn.html

The single most important interview technique that nearly everyone leaves out

https://www.inc.com/thomas-koulopoulos/the-single-most-important-quality-to-look-for-when-you-hire-anyone.html

The ‘Glass Floor’ Is Keeping America’s Richest Idiots At The Top

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076

I Worked at Capital One for Five Years. This Is How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers

https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-five-years-justified-piling-debt-poor-customers

The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/13/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets

The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

http://mentalfloss.com/article/514246/are-roman-dodecahedrons-worlds-most-mysterious-artifact

My Family’s Slave

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/

PLASTICS What’s recyclable, what becomes trash — and why

https://apps.npr.org/plastics-recycling/

My Life With Face Blindness

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/08/21/feature/my-life-with-face-blindness/

The Stories That Bind Us

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/fashion/the-family-stories-that-bind-us-this-life.html

Total Recall: The People Who Never Forget: An extremely rare condition may transform our understanding of memory.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/08/total-recall-the-people-who-never-forget

Can the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Be Found in Cuba?

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2016/can-ivory-billed-woodpecker-be-found-cuba

The Hidden Cost of GoFundMe Health Care

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/01/the-perverse-logic-of-gofundme-health-care

The Yale Happiness Class, Distilled

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/06/yale-happiness-class/592477/

Towing an Iceberg: One Captain’s Plan to Bring Drinking Water to 4 Million People

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-06/towing-an-iceberg-one-captain-s-plan-to-bring-drinking-water-to-4-million-people

The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-next-plague-is-coming-is-america-ready

How to Get Every Email Returned Or at least how to try.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/sunday/writing-advice.html

Beyond the Hype of Lab-Grown Diamonds

https://earther.gizmodo.com/beyond-the-hype-of-lab-grown-diamonds-1834890351

VANILLA FEVER: How did hunger for the humble vanilla pod lead to greed, crime and riches? Wendell Steavenson travels to Madagascar to meet the new spice barons

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/vanilla-fever

Americans Need Generic Drugs. But Can They Trust Them?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/generic-drugs-safety.html

The Peculiar Blindness of Experts

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/how-to-predict-the-future/588040/

The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous

5 Common Mental Errors That Sway You From Making Good Decisions How to tell your emotional, irrational decisions from your logical, well-considered ones.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-common-mental-errors-that-sway-you-from-making-good-decisions

100 Percent Is Overrated People labeled “smart” at a young age don’t deal well with being wrong. Life grows stagnant.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/100-percent-is-overrated

Why Are Autoimmune Diseases on the Rise?

https://elemental.medium.com/autoimmunity-is-a-disorder-of-our-time-a7f1c45d6907?fbclid=IwAR2RnZa_pOdDsu1GjM9TxNZroG2uHCPmssEAHnV0c1ynJQtWYoXr2b_1AwU

The most effective ways to curb climate change might surprise you

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/04/specials/climate-change-solutions-quiz/index.html

The Truth About Dentistry It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.

The https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/

Shockingly Good Smartphones You Can Get for $350 or Less

https://www.wsj.com/articles/shockingly-good-smartphones-you-can-get-for-350-or-less-11554642180

'Would you be willing?': words to turn a conversation around (and those to avoid)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/04/would-you-be-willing-words-turn-conversation-around

Masters of Love: Science says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/masters-of-love

Who besides the Chinese and Irish built the transcontinental railroad? Latter-day Saints — lots of them.

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/04/02/who-besides-chinese-irish/

Is there a border crisis? Depends on how you measure it.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2019/0321/Is-there-a-border-crisis-Depends-on-how-you-measure-it

Nearly all Americans fail to eat enough of this actual superfood

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/20/18214505/fiber-diet-weight-loss

Guilty In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/juror-revisits-murder-trial-20-years-later.html

I’m a Journalist. Apparently, I’m Also One of America’s “Top Doctors.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/top-doctors-award-journalist