Living with a short sleep gene: 'It's a gift'

 https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/22/health/short-sleep-gene-wellness-scn/index.html

One of the brothers, Elder Paul V. Johnson, is an official in my Church and has been serving since 2005.

Perspective: Modern motherhood has a major PR problem: Talking about the joys of parenthood isn’t just some slick spin to get people to produce more human capital. It’s the truth.

https://www.deseret.com/2021/6/11/22528243/culture-winning-the-smear-campaign-against-pro-family-parenting-social-media-motherhood

4 science-backed ways to identify and stop negative self-talk

 https://www.fastcompany.com/90645945/4-science-backed-ways-to-identify-and-stop-negative-self-talk

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

 https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/

They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.

 https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/

The secret to a lasting marriage? Maybe start with a big, cheap church wedding

 https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/12/22372416/the-secret-to-a-lasting-marriage-a-big-cheap-church-wedding-online-ordination-elopement-las-vegas

The surprising truth about which men do the most chores: A study by University of Utah researchers debunks stereotype of what type of men do the most domestic chores

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2021/1/11/22219373/religious-men-and-secular-men-housework-christian-catholic-muslim-jewish-utah-social-compass

Designers and Statisticians Disagree On What Makes a Good Information Graphic

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/designers-and-statisticians-disagree-on-what-makes-a-good-information-graphic

Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene: Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/

The self-silencing majority: In red America and blue America, an epidemic of self-censorship is threatening democracy

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2021/3/2/22309605/the-silenced-majority-bari-weiss-new-york-times-cancel-culture-free-speech-democrat-republican

The joy of the big, messy family: These couples are embracing more children than is typical. Here’s why

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2021/3/1/22303240/the-joy-of-the-big-messy-family-jim-gaffigan-catholic-mormon-kids

How to speak in public Public speaking can feel like an ordeal, but take a lesson from the ancients: it’s a skill you can develop like any other

 https://psyche.co/guides/public-speaking-doesnt-need-to-be-an-ordeal-if-you-follow-the-ancients

How to Stop Overthinking Everything

https://hbr.org/2021/02/how-to-stop-overthinking-everything

What Are Sperm Telling Us?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/opinion/sunday/endocrine-disruptors-sperm.html

Unhealthy Foods Aren’t Just Bad For You, They May Also Be Addictive

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/well/eat/food-addiction-fat.html

A Case Against the Peeping Tom Theory of Privacy Yes, it's creepy when companies can track your every move. But that's not the only problem.

 https://www.wired.com/story/against-peeping-tom-theory-of-privacy/

Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls? Every year, tens of millions of Americans collectively lose billions of dollars to scam callers. Where does the other end of the line lead?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/magazine/scam-call-centers.html

The 432-year-old manual on social distancing

 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210107-the-432-year-old-manual-on-social-distancing

These everyday ‘scams’ have become so normalized that we hardly even notice them anymore

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-scams-have-become-so-normalized-we-hardly-even-notice-them-anymore-11607545806

THROWAWAY KIDS: ‘WE ARE SENDING MORE FOSTER KIDS TO PRISON THAN COLLEGE’

 https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238206754.html

Skin in the Game: Wall Street’s answer to the student-debt crisis

 https://harpers.org/archive/2020/12/skin-in-the-game-wall-street-student-debt-crisis/

An unusual snack for cows, a powerful fix for climate: Feeding them seaweed slashes the amount of methane they burp into the atmosphere

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/11/27/climate-solutions-seaweed-methane/

The Mystery of Florida's Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-mystery-of-florida-s-cannonball-eating-spanish-fort

3 Signs You’re the Toxic Person in Your Workplace (and What to Do About It)

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/3-signs-you-re-the-toxic-person-in-your-workplace-and-what-to-do-about-it

The Unexpected Benefits of Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Polling

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-unexpected-benefits-of-thinking-for-yourself-in-an-age-of-polling#1013172

The Complete Guide to Motivation

 https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/11/02/motivation/

How to Thrive When Everything Feels Terrible

 https://hbr.org/2020/10/how-to-thrive-when-everything-feels-terrible

Sharks Wash Up on Beaches, Stabbed by Swordfish

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/science/swordfish-stabbing-sharks.html

The True Cost of Marijuana: A Colorado Town That Went All-In

 https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-true-cost-of-marijuana-a-colorado-town-that-went-all-in_3546091.html

The need to touch: The language of touch binds our minds and bodies to the broader social world. What happens when touch becomes taboo?

 https://aeon.co/essays/touch-is-a-language-we-cannot-afford-to-forget

How solitude and isolation can affect your social skills

 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201022-how-solitude-and-isolation-can-change-how-you-think

Man Made Whirlpool Powers A Village

 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7oi1pt

Are We Trading Our Happiness for Modern Comforts? As society gets richer, people chase the wrong things.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/why-life-has-gotten-more-comfortable-less-happy/616807/

This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic It’s not R.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/

Time to ditch ‘toxic positivity,’ experts say: ‘It’s okay not to be okay’

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/toxic-positivity-mental-health-covid/2020/08/19/5dff8d16-e0c8-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

How to Talk Yourself Into Better Endurance

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-talk-yourself-into-better-endurance

Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/amazon-drivers-are-hanging-smartphones-in-trees-to-get-more-work

Creepy ‘Geofence’ Finds Anyone Who Went Near a Crime Scene

 https://www.wired.com/story/creepy-geofence-finds-anyone-near-crime-scene/

Where Are the Socially Conservative Women in This Fight?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/opinion/sunday/conservative-women.html

Khan Academy’s Sal Khan shares advice for online learning: Do less, and turn off the camera

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/31/khan-academy-remote-learning/

Why It’s So Lonely at the Top: Work friendships are crucial to happiness. What happens when you can’t make them?

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/08/how-make-friends-lonely-boss-workaholic/615709/

A Parliament of Owls

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-parliament-of-owls

Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree: Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college.

 https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/google-plan-disrupt-college-degree-university-higher-education-certificate-project-management-data-analyst.html

HOW TO WIN ARGUMENTS AND ACTUALLY CHANGE SOMEONE'S MIND

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/how-to-win-arguments-actually-change-someones-mind

The Single Most Important Thinking Skill Nobody Taught You

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-single-most-important-thinking-skill-nobody-taught-you

We Aren’t Holding The Right People Responsible For Cancel Culture

 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elaminabdelmahmoud/cancel-culture-free-speech-big-tech-facebook-twitter

LANDMARK STUDY ON 11,196 COUPLES PINPOINTS WHAT DATING APPS GET SO WRONG

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/dating-study-predicts-happy-relationships

How one hour of slow breathing changed my life

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/26/every-breath-you-take-the-lost-art-of-breathing

Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/growing-up-surrounded-by-books-could-have-powerful-lasting-effect-on-the-mind

The Dangerous Downsides of Perfectionism

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-dangerous-downsides-of-perfectionism

Why Smart Businesses Should Stop Requiring College Degrees: Because millions of people gained the skills and experience you need through alternative routes.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/why-smart-businesses-should-stop-requiring-college-degrees.html

To understand structural racism, look to our schools

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/to-understand-structural-racism-look-to-our-schools/

Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/serial-killers-should-fear-this-algorithm

How to Complain and Get Results: Impersonal customer service makes it hard to get help. Here’s the script for success.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-complain-and-get-results

Even before the pandemic was declared, the global response was underway

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/5/23/21247256/mormon-covid-19-latter-day-saints-missionaries-church-pandemic-global-holland-nelson

Losing touch: What 6 feet of safety costs us

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/5/12/21246611/coronavirus-utah-covid-physical-touch-hugs-hand-shakes-affection-distancing-effects

The Drug Runners

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-drug-runners

Wearing masks may have a surprising unintended consequence

https://www.fastcompany.com/90501923/scientists-reveal-an-alarming-unintended-consequence-of-wearing-masks

How terrorist groups and gangs are responding to the coronavirus crisis

https://nypost.com/2020/05/06/how-terrorist-groups-and-gangs-are-responding-to-coronavirus/

7 Habits of the Happiest People (That Most of Us Rarely Practice)

https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/7-habits-of-happiest-people-that-most-of-us-rarely-practice.html

Tapping Into the Power of Humble Narcissism

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/tapping-into-the-power-of-humble-narcissism

‘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