Researchers have recently uncovered evidence of a 4,000-year-old construction site in northeastern Brazil. Stretching over an area the size of Britain is a cluster of 200 million mounds, some as high as 10 feet tall, that were painstakingly raised over the centuries by generations of extremely ambitious builders—termites.
The Google search box is a sort of confessional for the digital age, a place to put the questions and admissions we can’t bring anywhere else in the hopes of absolution—or, better yet, an autocomplete prediction that immediately tells us we’re not the only one wondering whatever it is that compelled us to turn to the internet for answers.
We’ve been fascinated by morning routines for about as long as we’ve been watching the sun come up. Philosophers from Plato to the Stoics dispensed advice on everything from the appropriate amount of sleep to the right morning mantras, in the belief that these habits shaped character and personal conduct.
As you read this, two men are walking across Antarctica alone, together.
There’s something instantly recognizable about Sarah Cooper’s comics about workplace behavior: the characters enduring office inanity with the expressionless fortitude of figures in an airplane safety manual; the perfect snapshots of power trips and microaggressions that would be painful—if they weren’t so funny.
You can’t use a plastic straw anymore without looking like an environmental libertine who doesn’t care about sea turtles. Everyone knows that. But please do not buy a silver straw.
If you’re a full-time remote worker in the US and are looking for a change, Tulsa, Oklahoma has a deal for you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be working from home today. You may have heard that the Supreme Court justice was hospitalized for a night after falling in her office on Wednesday (Nov. 7) and breaking three ribs.
On its face, Nevada’s Question 3 looked like a mundane referendum on state energy regulations.
For a working parent, the moments your family can celebrate professional achievements with you are particularly special.
Voters in Maine were presented with a ballot measure that would have provided disabled adults or people over the age of 65 with full-time, long-term care in their own homes, at no cost to individuals or their families. It was hailed by supporters as a visionary model for ensuring support for vulnerable people, one that could be rolled out in other states as the US elder population grows.
The UnLonely Project, an offshoot of the Boston-based Foundation for Art and Healing, works to combat loneliness and social isolation in the US. They have a particular focus on workplaces: In a country where more than 40% of people say they are lonely, “people bring their loneliness to work,” said founder Jeremy Nobel.
This is a story of a stupid mistake.
Astronauts can’t burp in space. So claims one of the fun facts printed on the underside of Snapple caps. But what does a beverage brand know about the particulars of gas in zero gravity?
People running for federal office in the US can now use campaign funds to pay for childcare while they’re on the campaign trail, following a unanimous ruling by the US Federal Election Commission on Nov. 1.
Nancy Dubuc started on May 29 as CEO of Vice Media, the $5.7 billion upstart known for its aggressively edgy attitude. Dubuc, the former CEO of A+E Networks, had accepted the daunting task of leading the business to profitability during a digital media downturn and restoring professionalism to a company rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct.
Mars—maker of M&Ms, Snickers, Twix, and many more sugary delights—is all about fun.
The first time Tim Brown saw the Hat Man, he was 14 years old and curled up in his bed in Nashville, Tennessee. He was dozing, with the only light in the room coming from the flicker of late-night television. As he drifted off to sleep, a sound from the television shook him back awake.
Searching online for a child’s Harry Potter-themed Halloween costume yields magical surprises, from the sheer variety of flammable-seeming polyester wizard robes available to the speed at which search results for “hermione harry potter uniform” turn grossly inappropriate.
As is so often the case after the US’s all-too-frequent mass shootings, people horrified by the Oct. 27 murders at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh have rushed to the area’s blood banks to donate.
Social isolation takes a heavy toll on those who suffer from it, both in health and overall well-being. An effort to quantify the cost of loneliness in the US also found that among Americans aged 65 or older, social isolation costs the US government nearly $7 billion in additional health care costs per year.
A quick search of my email reveals 70 messages in which the recipient or I are apologizing to one another. We are sorry for slow replies and for not seeing messages earlier; we apologize for doing something as intrusive as sending an email in the first place. We apologize for doing things that were necessary parts of our jobs, and for not doing things that we didn’t actually want to do at all.
There are only a few people with good reason to regularly rise from bed before sunrise: mainly, airport employees, cab drivers, early-morning talk show hosts and their makeup artists, and the actor and comedian Melissa McCarthy.
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