It’s official: Repeatedly dropping the F-bomb increases both your tolerance and your threshold for pain. Lest you think that a + more
It’s official: Repeatedly dropping the F-bomb increases both your tolerance and your threshold for pain. Lest you think that a + more
“English is an immensely complicated language to get right,” writes Mark Forsyth, “and native speakers often have no idea of + more
There’s a new podcast in town, and it’s (predictably) great. The Album Years, hosted by Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness, + more
How about some long reads for the long weekend? First, Marilynne Robinson, writing in the New York Review of Books, + more
If you’ve been spending the pandemic sitting around the house in underwear you haven’t washed in a week, sculpting tiny + more
I had in mind a couple of things for today’s post—until I read this jaw-dropping account of a stolen de + more
So I finally got around to watching Friday the 13th over the weekend. Yeah, I know it’s been out for + more
“Troubled by nervous energy and stress since he was young, an intermittent insomniac” who had “difficulty filtering noise and distractions + more
A year ago, I wrote about Keith Jarrett on the occasion of his seventy-fourth birthday. I don’t want to make + more
“Quantum mechanics isn’t just an approximation of the truth,” writes Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, + more
There’s no shortage of obituaries on the late, great Little Richard—who died Saturday at 87—nor should there be for the + more
So. How about some good news for a change? First, you’ve no doubt heard that murder hornets have arrived and + more
If you, like me, are digging ESPN’s The Last Dance, you may be interested to know that the network is + more
Yes. A thousand times, yes: Matthew Schneier reminds us that Now Is the Perfect Time to Memorize a Poem—because “it’s + more