This Is Officially the Cheapest Week to Fly This SummerSummer holidays aren't cheap, but play it smart and you could save your pennies for gelato and spritzes aplenty once you arrive at your destination.
Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Motheralong the coastal 101 in brilliant blue, the bright May sky beginning to soften toward sunset. Chin Rodger felt a lift of optimism as she exited the freeway and arrived at a sushi restaurant tucked away in the tony town of Montecito, where she greeted her 22-year-old son, Elliot. He looked well.
Buy Yourself A Gift CardI am a big book guy, but not a big bookstore guy. Almost every book I buy, I buy on a recommendation or a review or because it's by an author I already know I enjoy. When I decide to buy one, I check for sales, buy online, often buy the e-book, or even just take it out at the library.
Pocket’s Top-Saved Stories of May 2024A 32-year-old high school imposter, strength training for beginners, and the 5 questions to ask in a job interview to boost your chances of getting an offer.
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to CountBy making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data. Introduction Imagine that you’re sent to a pristine rainforest to carry out a wildlife census. Every time you see an animal, you snap a photo.
The One Place in Airports People Actually Want to BeOn a bright, chilly Thursday in February, most of the people inside the Chase Sapphire Lounge at LaGuardia Airport appeared to be doing something largely absent from modern air travel: They were having fun. I arrived at Terminal B before 9:30 a.m.
The shocking state of the restaurant industry: ‘We can’t afford to be open. We can’t afford to be closed.’In October, Lauren and Peter Lemos locked the doors of their Chinatown sandwich shop for what they thought would be the last time. In late March they flipped Wax Paper’s lights back on — not due to newfound success or a windfall but because they couldn’t afford to shut down.
I Thought Adulthood Meant Separating From My Sisters. My Nieces Brought Me Back.Over the course of 18 completely unremarkable months of my personal life, one of my younger sisters got married, gave birth, finally finished her college degree, and announced that she was pregnant again.
Small but Mighty, Plankton Are Some of the Most Powerful Creatures on EarthExplore the incredible underwater world of plankton.
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the WeekClaire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History, Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, Miranda July’s All Fours, and Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews.
The Pill Makes Some Women Miserable. But Are They Really Quitting It en Masse?The woman in the video looks resolute, and a little sad, as she cuts up a pack of birth control pills. “These silly little pills have literally ruined me as a person,” reads the caption. The clip, which is on TikTok, has 1.1 million likes.
Would You Want to Know if You’re Going to Get Alzheimer’s Disease?Advances in genetic research mean predicting who develops the condition is becoming more accurate, but that’s not necessarily a comfort.
NBC’s NBA Nostalgia PlayNBC appears to be getting back into the NBA business. There is something about the sports streaming age that has made many pine for an older era of basketball broadcasting on network television. You’re an NBA fan. Or you’re a media professional who knows the name Mark Lazarus.
Why movies and albums both got so longRecords and films are longer, but songs and scenes are shorter. What happened? When Taylor Swift’s new album dropped last month, it was greeted with one almost universal complaint.
The Tragic Downfall of the Internet’s Art GalleryOn March 27, a large group of artists and creators from across the web noticed the frightening extent to which a once-beloved, highly influential community platform of theirs had, like so many others, fallen prey to the artificial intelligence juggernauts plundering the internet.
The BoutInterracial boxing matches were banned in Texas. One man slugged his way into the ring anyway.
The Dream of Streaming Is DeadBundles are back. Remember when streaming was supposed to let us watch whatever we want, whenever we want, for a sliver of the cost of cable? Well, so much for that. In recent years, streaming has gotten confusing and expensive as more services than ever are vying for eyeballs.
How to Use ‘Circle to Search’ on an Android PhoneAs you've no doubt noticed, tech companies are pushing artificial intelligence into as many of their products as they can at a ferocious rate. One of the newest AI-powered features to make its way to Android phones is called Circle to Search.