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The Atlantic The Puzzle That Will Outlast the World
One move down, 1,298,074,214,633,706,907,132,624,082,305,022 to go.
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Holly Pilot The Emotion Missing From the Workplace
Sadness is a central part of our lives, yet it’s typically ignored at work, hurting employees and managers alike.
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The Atlantic Venezuela’s Train to Nowhere
A story of a train project illustrates the rot that inevitably develops behind a charismatic leader’s cult of personality.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock How Confidence Became a Cult
Messages about women’s self-esteem are now so ubiquitous that their value has been placed beyond debate.
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Scott Gelber When Your Friends Fall off the Edge of the Earth
Conspiracy theorists can fall into vicious cycle of alienation and acceptance, pulling them away from society at large and further into the circle of believers.
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Ben Hickey The Next Pandemic Could Start With a Terrorist Attack
Nations around the world should come together now to determine how best to protect humans from biowarfare.
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Rick Rowell / Disney / Getty What Reality TV Reveals About Motherhood
Unscripted shows may be filled with a wide array of moms, but each is still judged by surprisingly conservative, rigid standards.
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Hans Namuth / Photo Researchers History / Getty The Key to Julia Child’s Success Hid in Plain Sight
The chef’s almost mythical origin story can obscure a fundamental privilege she carried: She was American.
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Christopher Anderson / Magnum What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness
Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.
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Getty ; The Atlantic Photos Are Too Flattering Now
An ode to the bygone days of blurry, poorly lit images
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Richard Renaldi The Surprising Benefits of Talking to Strangers
So many of us have been raised to see strangers as dangerous and scary. What would happen if we instead saw them as potential sources of comfort and belonging?
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Addie Borchert The Rich, Weird, and Frustrating World of Depression-Era Travel Guides
The American Guides were unusual not only for their shaggy opulence and Americana maximalism, but also for their source of funding: the federal government.
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Irene Suosalo Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion
There is no good evidence that facial expressions reveal a person’s feelings. But big tech companies want you to believe otherwise.
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Lucy Jones Don’t Help Your Kids With Homework
Focus on prioritization and process, not the assignment itself.
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Samantha Simon / Getty ‘It Seems That I Know How the Universe Originated’
The theoretical physicist Andrei Linde may have the world’s most expansive conception of what infinity looks like.
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Nina Westervelt / The New York Times / … Diamonds Aren’t Special and Neither Is Your Love
We’ve coupled love to marriage and marriage to gems, and all three thrive on the assumption of rarity. What would it mean for love to be common?
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David Levene / eyevine / Redux America’s Toxic Love Affair With Technology
Major inventions cause major upheaval. Why don’t we take precautions?
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Toma Vagner How I Became a Poker Champion in One Year
One of the world’s best players taught me his unique psychological style of play—and it worked.
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Adeshola Makinde Punching Steph Curry
The rules of the game drive the nature of competition.
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Hulton Archive / Getty When Hollywood’s Power Players Were Women
Female writers, directors, and producers were pioneers of the silent-film era—but were pushed out of the industry as its influence grew.
