Forget 10,000 Steps A Day — This Is The Number You Should Focus On InsteadHow many steps have you taken today? Most of us have been confronted by that question at some point in our lives, and many of us use our step count as a metric to gauge how active we are.
The Sci-Fi Writer Who Invented Conspiracy TheoryIt all goes back to one man in the 1950s: a military-intelligence expert in psychological warfare. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.
The Football Club That Data BuiltBrentford FC couldn’t outspend its Premier League rivals, so it decided to out-think them.
How ‘History and Tradition’ Rulings Are Changing American LawIn November 2022, a group of L.G.B.T.Q. students at West Texas A&M University started planning a drag show for the following spring.
Heroism, sacrifice, defeat? The enduring mystery of George Mallory’s final Everest attemptOn the morning of 6 June, 1924, George Mallory – one of the world’s greatest mountaineers – set off with his companion, Sandy Irvine, from a camp on the slopes of Mount Everest and headed for its summit.
My Secret to Weeks of Free Lodging in EuropeThis is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. After I graduated from college, I knew I wanted to travel for a few months, so I secured a part-time job that could be done remotely. I didn’t want to do my work shifts from a hostel bunk bed or random cafés that stayed open late.
The Food Blogger Cooking Through Gaza’s Hunger CrisisAll products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. A young man sits cross-legged on the floor of a tent in the southern Gaza city Rafah, his eyes locked with the camera’s gaze.
Everything Barbra Streisand Eats in Her 970-Page Memoir“I never forget the people who feed me,” Barbra Streisand writes in My Name Is Barbra, her 3-pound, 3-ounce memoir, in which, it is clear, she never forgets anything. Every lens, shot, triumph, gripe, and grudge is preserved for posterity and so, we have learned, is every snack.
Why Americans Still Use Fahrenheit Long After Everyone Else Switched to CelsiusYou can blame two of history’s all-time greatest villains: British colonialism and Congress.
The failed promise of egg freezingThe costly procedure was supposed to give women a new kind of freedom. Is that what it really offers? It was 2009, and Fox was a 36-year-old divorced writer and editor when she sat down to interview a fertility specialist for an upcoming book.
19 Low-Maintenance Landscaping Ideas—From Artificial Turf to XeriscapingSpend your weekend relaxing, not sweating with gardening tools, thanks to these low-maintenance landscaping tips.
How I explained AI and deepfakes using only basic VietnameseLast Saturday, I was at a community gathering of around 30 Vietnamese immigrants, all in their 50s and 60s, in Oakland, California, when I asked if anyone knew anything about AI or artificial intelligence. None of them had ever heard of it.
Does ‘Challengers’ Serve an Ace or a Fault? A Tennis-Specific Breakdown.‘Challengers’ may center on a steamy love triangle, but fundamentally, it’s a tennis movie. And just how authentic is the depiction of tennis? We have thoughts.
‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity InstituteTwo weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary research centre in Oxford, no longer had a future. It shut down without warning on 16 April.
Five Phrases That Make People Discount What You're SayingThese common expressions can cause listeners to think twice.
When You Like Your Dog More Than Your PartnerAs absurd as this accusation sounds, it’s one that gets leveled in almost all romantic relationships that involve cohabitating with pets. I’ve said it to exes before, and my girlfriend recently said it to me. (Apparently, I was giving the dog too much affection after an argument.
The importance of being lazyFor most of her working life, Celeste Headlee never made any time for any time-off. "I used to say, 'I can outwork anybody.' That used to be, like, my calling card," she said. But in 2017, at age 47, she hit a wall. "I was irritable all the time," she said. "I was tired all the time.
'You can live like a king' by retiring in Europe, says CFP—but make these 3 moves firstThere's a vast and complicated industry around planning for life in retirement, but if you're thinking about how you can call it quits earlier or live more luxuriously when you do retire, the calculus can be remarkably simple.