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No One Wants Your Cold
How to know if you’re too sick to hang
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Grant Hindsley Rick Steves’ Advice for Vacationers in Europe This Summer
The TV host and travel guide reflects on how travel has—and hasn’t—changed since COVID.
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Illustration by Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty Please Get Me Out of Dead-Dog TikTok
TikTok's algorithms have people stuck on a viral-grief loop.
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Bettman / Getty What Not to Do If You Win an Oscar
A Hollywood speechwriter on what makes for a great—or a terrible—moment at the mic
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Yana Paskova / The Washington Post / Getty; … A Resigned Politician’s Advice for George Santos
“The No. 1 thing I say is that if what they’re alleging is true, how you go down determines whether or not you can get back up.”
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The Atlantic Why the Tesla Recall Matters
“We have never been in a more dangerous place in automotive-safety history, except for maybe right when cars were invented and we hadn’t figured out brake lights and headlights yet.”
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Getty; The Atlantic An ICU Doctor on How This COVID Wave Is Different
It’s hard to tell from the data who’s still getting hospitalized with COVID. One frontline worker shares her observations.
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Hutton Supancic / Getty Band Breakups Are No Simple Thing
A huge number of people and institutions are affected when a group parts ways.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic The Case for a Four-Day Workweek in Maryland
“Given the obvious success of reducing work hours that we’re seeing in businesses across the country and across the world, it only stands to reason that Maryland should try this out.”
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Faraz Hyder / Getty; The Atlantic ‘Scar Girl’ Is a Sign That the Internet Is Broken
Why are so many people obsessing over an 18-year-old’s face?
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The Atlantic; Nik Wheeler / Corbis / Getty J. Kenji López-Alt Thinks You’ll Be Fine With an Induction Stove
But it may take some time to get used to.
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MEGA / GC Images / Getty; The Atlantic A Film-Industry Armorer on the Rust Shooting Charges
Who’s responsible for the on-set shooting, and how can another be prevented?
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The Atlantic; Bryan M. Bennett / Getty ‘You Get to See Violence’
The radio host Garrett Bush discusses the country’s tortured relationship with football, and what the NFL could do to treat players better.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Meaning of Dry January
That more and more people are abstaining from drinking for one month a year is a sign of society’s profoundly broken relationship with alcohol—and coming change.
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Ben Stanstall / Afp / Getty; Megan Briggs … Damar Hamlin’s Tragedy, Anti-vaxxers’ Gold
Opportunists used the cardiac arrest of an NFL player to promote deadly disinformation.
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Geraint Lewis / Eyevine / Redux Making a New Year’s Resolution? Don’t Go to War With Yourself.
“The difference between not doing anything at all and doing 10 minutes a few times a week is absolute.”
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NASA / Joel Kowsky / Getty ‘The Universe Doesn’t Care That We Have Holidays’
NASA researchers monitor the night sky even when most of the country has a day off.
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The Atlantic; Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency / … This Is What It Looks Like When Twitter Falls Apart
Elon Musk hasn’t finished his drama yet.
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Planet Observer / Universal Images Group; Getty; The … The Mauna Loa Eruption Is a Gift for Science
Volcanologists have the first opportunity in nearly four decades to examine and measure an event of this magnitude at the largest volcano in the world.
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Marcus Yam / Getty; The Atlantic Tracking the Mountain Lion That Ate a Chihuahua
The wildlife biologist Jeff Sikich talks about the famous cat, its habitat, and how to keep yourself—and your pets—safe.
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Erik Carter/The Atlantic; Getty We Still Don’t Know What Fundamentally Causes Canker Sores
But it’s probably the immune system’s fault.
