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College Athletes Can Now Get Paid. How Is It Working Out?
Not so well, says a university president. Despite some problems, things overall are much better, counters an attorney for athletes.
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15 hours ago1 min read
Twenty Years From Now, You Won’t Just Watch Sports—You’ll Enter Them
Viewing games will be more personalized, interactive and immersive. But something may be lost along the way.
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15 hours ago1 min read
AMERICAN LONELINESS
It’s not an epidemic—it’s an immune system.
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1 day ago1 min read
‘Speed’ Review: The Future Is Gridlocked
The world in some ways has slowed down. More congestion means that cars travel less quickly through cities than they have in recent decades.
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2 days ago1 min read
PUNCTUATION: A GENERATIONAL DIVIDE
Can parents ever learn to text like their kids? Should they even try?
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2 days ago1 min read
The moral case for being less online
Logging off social media doesn’t mean checking out of the world.
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4 days ago1 min read
How Panic Pouches Became the New Way to Soothe Anxiety
Six people reveal what’s in their compact bags of calming tools, including fidget toys, sour candies and a rosary.
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5 days ago1 min read
Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Strangers on a Train’: A Deal Gone off the Rails
The director’s 1951 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel manages to be both an exhilarating work of suspense and a sharp examination of human perversion.
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5 days ago1 min read
Society-building begins early: This Nation Breaks Every Rule of U.S. Youth Sports—and Built a World Cup Monster
Norway’s Erling Haaland is one of soccer’s most fearsome and competitive stars. He grew up in a place where winning and losing hardly mattered.
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5 days ago1 min read
What if It’s Not the Phones?
An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology.
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7 days ago1 min read
The Creator Economy Is Above the Law
How influencers get away with anything
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Jul 81 min read
HAS OUR SOCIETY ENTERED THE END OF READING ?
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Jul 81 min read
The Cover Letter Is Dead: Long Live the Letter of Recommendation
In this follow-up to his Vantage Point column on AI and the demise of the cover letter, Judd Kessler explains why letters of recommendation carry more weight than ever before.
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Jul 81 min read
Does leisure make us happy? Often the answer is no.
Psychologist Laurie Santos said we often pursue low-effort activities while looking for happiness. Here’s what actually works, according to the research.
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Jul 61 min read
What would our lives look like if we no longer had to work? As a thought experiment, I tried to imagine
The abundance that AI promises to deliver represents an enormous and radical opportunity – a chance to reconnect with the ancient project of how to live
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Jul 51 min read
The Books We Read Too Late—And That You Should Read Now
One of the great, bittersweet pleasures of life is finishing a title and thinking about how it might have affected you—if only you’d found it sooner.
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Jul 51 min read
A Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music
The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an animal that can make new calls.
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Jul 51 min read
The Father of American Pop Music Turns 200
Stephen Foster wrote some of the most enduring American songs, invented the role of songwriter, and served as a cautionary tale for his successors.
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Jul 31 min read
The Joy of Being American
Photos of July 4 celebrations across the decades
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Jul 31 min read
A philosopher’s 5 tips on how to become the most likable person in the room
Don't reek of onions or take up too much space.
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Jun 281 min read
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