This 3-word phrase will stop people from interrupting you, says public speaking expertGetting interrupted is a fact of life and whether it happens at work or elsewhere, it's frustrating. It limits your ability to express yourself, to contribute, to shine, and to feel good about yourself. Ultimately, if you can't speak up, you can lose out professionally and emotionally.
What The Viral Fake Bus Hammock TikTok Says About Staged VideosIt is, in fairness, an irresistible TikTok. The scene opens with the action already underway, as if a bystander has just started recording an escalating drama.
Blood MoneyI got a job, I texted my friend Maggie. The gray iPhone dots wiggled, and before she’d finished typing, I added: I started selling my plasma. The dots disappeared. Summer in Las Vegas makes everything feel cruel and impossible.
The Restaurant World Still Has a Child Care ProblemWhile some organizations have made strides to provide child care for restaurant staff, easy child care solutions are far from the norm for restaurant workers.
Why you should still buy physical copies of video gamesI have a shelf of Nintendo Switch games. I know I could buy the games online, and that it would probably be easier, but I think physical copies of video games are just better. Now, I am in the minority here: Physical game sales are in a free fall. And in many cases this makes sense.
How Do I Tell My Young Son I Have Breast Cancer?I hadn’t been ready for most of what came with parenthood. Now I wasn’t ready to tell my son that I had cancer.
The Complex Social Lives of VirusesThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists have set them apart from the rest of life. Viruses were far smaller than cells, and inside their protein shells they carried little more than genes.
The beauty of concreteOne of the unifying features of architectural styles before the twentieth century is the presence of ornament. We speak of architectural elements as ornamental inasmuch as they are shaped by aesthetic considerations rather than structural or functional ones.
Is There Such a Thing as the Perfect Alarm Tone? We Think So (And Here’s What It Might Sound Like)An effective alarm is one which should minimize ‘sleep inertia’—that stage of grogginess we feel between being asleep and becoming fully alert.
A Groundbreaking Scientific Discovery Just Created the Instruction Manual for Light-Speed TravelWith the ease of starting a car, the crew of the USS Enterprise starship streaks to a new adventure in every episode of Star Trek, somehow traveling at several times the speed of light.
Why the 20/10 Organizing Method Is the Best, Time-Saving Decluttering StrategyOrganizing your space is one of those things you know you should probably take care of, but the mere thought of tackling the beast can keep you from even getting started.
Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human BodyFrom our knees to our eyeballs, our bodies are full of hack solutions.
Cannes Unsold Gems: The Best Films Yet to Land U.S. DistributionFrom a Federico Fellini homage with Lily James and Willem Dafoe and a doc about attempts to unionize Amazon workers to a magnum opus of family dysfunction, here are five titles still up for sale. THR puts the spotlight on the best films from the festival circuit that have yet to land a U.S.
How Hollywood Fell Short for the Fall GuysStunt work doesn’t have its own category at the Oscars. Here’s why that should change. On-screen, during an early scene in The Fall Guy, the stunt driver Logan Holladay pulls off a move that looks utterly chaotic.
Marking 70 Years of White Flight From School IntegrationFriday was the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education that formally struck down state-enforced racial segregation of public schools as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
This 5-Minute Abs Workout Will Torch Your Core In The Best Way PossibleAll you need for a killer core is five minutes between Zoom meetings.
The War On WeedsWhen are you gonna get rid of those weeds, my father would ask every time he visited my Vermont lawn. Splotched with purple thyme, yellow dandelions and white clovers, the lawn attracted honeybees and, later in the season, fireflies.
The Mad Scientist and the Killer WhalesT he five animals took an hour to put the sailboat beneath the waves. At the end of October 2022, four men, each in his late twenties, set sail from western France toward Lisbon. Augustin Drion, an experienced sailor from Brittany, was one of them.
How to Live ForeverA friend of mine knew a wealthy man who had decided to live forever. That made him hard to be around, my friend told me, in an e-mail, because he was “always dropping to the floor to do ab crunches or running out for bottles of water or falling asleep or outgassing Chinese herbs.
Forget Miles per Gallon. Here’s the Best Metric for Measuring a Car’s EfficiencyIt’s been right there on the vehicle’s sticker all along.