“i’m dating a model”

Ambient artists beef by dropping increasingly hostile soundscapes

This beautiful essay is only a taste of the truly marvelous and enchanting book that it’s taken from. Pre-order it here if you feel like escaping into a wholly new world: bookshop.org/p/books/the-li…

It’s hard to tell if Albert Brooks is the most interesting man in the world, or if he merely appears so in Adrienne LaFrance’s hands. Either way, this is the most absorbing profile I’ve read in ages: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

AI should be a beautiful solemn falcon on your arm that goes and gets things for you

OUATIH was so good that Tarantino is in his own head now

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I've spent a lot of the last six months working on this story about reports of abuse at one of the country's most-esteemed, certified-humane dairy farms. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Mesmerizing

Eclipse panic got a bit out of hand

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I ❤️ journalism. Congratulations to my mega-talented, totally brilliant colleagues at The Atlantic.

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Announced today: The Atlantic now has more than 1 million subscriptions and reaches profitability
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Daniel Kahneman, our greatest scientist of mistakes, has died.

After drafting the manuscript for Thinking, Fast and Slow, he paid colleagues to provide anonymous advice on whether to abandon it.

For the 3 Body Problem watchers, a throwback to that time I went to an ancient observatory in Beijing with Liu Cixin 刘慈欣

'We live, we love, we yield the stage to our children. I hoped that when the time arrived, I would have the chance for farewells. If that wish were granted, I could with total content ride the train to my final destination. It never occurred to me that one of my children might

“I’d just written a book about plant behavior, and I knew that plants were anything but passive objects or inert ornaments. I understood that they used complex forms of communication, made strategic decisions about how to grow, could finely sense their neighbors, and had enough

I have a story in The Atlantic today that I have been thinking about for years.

I've written a lot about shocking discoveries from 23andMe and AncestryDNA tests, but several years ago, I heard about a support group for what might be the most shocking discovery of all.

“The funny thing about the concept of cancel culture is that its popularization coincided with the demise of the mechanisms through which a person might truly be exiled from public life.”

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