Chad Aaron Hall
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Chad Aaron Hall
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Magnus Carlsen: And I think it’s always better to be overly confident than pessimistic. I realize sometimes after games that, you know, I was actually way too confident here. I was way too optimistic. But if you’re not optimistic, if you’re not looking for your chances, you’re going to miss. You’re going to miss opportunities. And you know, I think... See more
Farnam Street • The Winner’s Edge
1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them by Toby Creswell
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There’s a video of Donald Trump pointing out uneven pavers to the groundskeeper at Mar a Lago.
he says he does the same with at the White House
In 2016, the nonprofit Moms Across America sent five childhood vaccines to Microbe Inotech Laboratories to be tested for glyphosate. Using the ELISA test, glyphosate was found in all five vaccines, at 0.107 to 2.671 parts per billion.81 The MMR vaccine, which is grown as a live culture on gelatin, contained the most glyphosate. Additional tests... See more
Tao Lin • The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal
Imagine that any time a meteorologist forecasted the weather, the prediction changed how the weather would be that day. So for example, if they predicted it would be sunny, then it was more likely to be sunnier that day. If they predicted it would be rainy, then it would be more likely to be rainy.
While the weather obviously isn’t like that,... See more
While the weather obviously isn’t like that,... See more
Herbert Lui • How Do You Think It’s Going to Turn Out?
“We were poor, the school system left much to be desired, as did the health system, as it was always difficult to recruit and retain qualified teachers and health care professionals,” she says in an email interview. “There was also a desire to find a way to keep youth in the community, or at least provide opportunities for them to come back after... See more
One man's mission to revitalize small-town America
The Paris Review Interviews by Philip Gourevitch
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There’s a name for this phenomenon: the Cathedral Effect.2 Studies have shown that the environment we find ourselves in powerfully shapes our thinking.