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Conventional wisdom has long asserted men outperform women in long-distance races. Ultramarathon results prove that assumption wrong

In his tour of the ills of present technology, Bridle spends a great deal of time unpacking computation, how it works and what it’s done to our understanding of the world.

Based on Cal Newport's book Deep Work, this comprehensive summary and guide teaches you to harness focus, ditch distractions, and improve your productivity.

Since 2000, Tim Friede, a truck mechanic from Wisconsin, has endured some 200 snakebites and 700 injections of lethal snake venom—all part of a masochistic quest to immunize his body and offer his blood to scientists seeking a universal antivenom. For nearly two decades, few took him seriously. via Pocket

Behind Twitter’s Plan To Get People To Stop Yelling At Each Other Twitter’s leadership knows that it’s fundamentally broken, and its latest attempt to fix…

Americans eat a narrower variety of foods for breakfast than anyone else. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Designing media to reflect how people think and learn

Technology is just another human creation—like religion or government or sports or money. It's not perfect, and it never will be. But it's still a miracle.

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JPEG images are everywhere in our digital lives, but behind the veil of familiarity lie algorithms that remove details that are imperceptible to the human eye. This produces the highest visual quality with the smallest file size—but what does that look like? Let's see what our eyes can't see!

A transparency tool on Facebook inadvertently provides a window into the confusing maze of companies you’ve never heard of who appear to have your data.

An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever.

And one reason why it might actually be good for you.

Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.

The heart program’s mortality rate tripled since 2015.

How an obsolete medical device with a security flaw became a must-have for some patients with type 1 diabetes

Slack has been outperforming other Silicon Valley companies when it comes to minority employees, according to the organization’s latest diversity report.

By raising levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol, our phone time may also be threatening our long-term health.

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?

In the open-plan office, wireless headphones are the new cubicles.

Don’t just do it, think about it too: how Gilbert Ryle’s philosophy of mind can help athletes teach themselves to improve

We’re altering the way we handle text in Figma. Join me on the journey we took to get there — through type history and into the modern times.

In the late 1990s, a lonely teenager on the West Coast fired up his dial-up modem to find someone to talk to. He was a shy kid, too introverted to feel fully comfortable in the real world, and he logged on to the early internet’s bare-bones web forums for a sense of connection. via Pocket

The organization’s leadership is focussed on external threats, but the real crisis may be internal.

Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.

Think better. Grow your audience. Accelerate your career.

You learn to believe in your child’s existence. What happens when she’s killed by a piece of your daily environment?