In the Bible, Eve is created to serve Adam. ”It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him,” muses God in Genesis 2:18.
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
I’ve never believed in happiness. As an anxious person, I’ve always valued peace more. But last month, it occurred to me that I’d stumbled upon happiness anyway, and here’s what I learned in doing so: It’s not about good endings or how people treat you. Happiness is an uncompromising, calculated approach to life.
The day after terror attacks in Paris left at least 127 dead and some 300 wounded, attention has turned to Belgium. Several arrests were made in Belgium today (Nov. 14), and a black Volkswagen Polo with a Belgian license plate had been spotted on the night of the attacks near the Bataclan theater. Police have raided a Brussels neighborhood where three of the eight attackers are believed to have lived.
I went on my second Tinder date on the Tuesday after Valentine’s Day. We met for Mexican food just south of Union Square. I don’t know what I ordered or how I kept my calm throughout the meal, listening to my date talk about the fact that he and his entire family were healthcare professionals. That morning I’d been diagnosed with breast cancer.
A cancer diagnosis in any form is scary. So what does it mean when you’re told you have “pre-cancer” of the breast? The truth is, even doctors aren’t exactly sure.
I was 31 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My gynecologist called, and I ducked into the supply closet of our Union Square office for some privacy. She said something about a New York Times article, about estrogen receptors. It was February 2014—we’d just moved offices—and I was surrounded by unpacked bins of computer wire and post-it notes. I didn’t know how to extricate myself from the mess and re-enter the world with this information. I texted my pregnant coworker, I cried in the bathroom, I cried at my desk, and then I did some work.
At the end, they both required antipsychotics. Each had become unrecognizable to their families.
The best way to find love may be the simplest: make the choice to do it.
Michael Brown, the 18-year-old whose death sparked the Ferguson protests, was buried today, a full two weeks after his shooting. The story of what has happened to his body in that period exemplifies a paradox at the heart of many of the other tragedies of recent weeks.
No one likes the term “millennial,” with its connotations of narcissism, laziness, and self-delusion. And yet it wasn’t until I was editing a piece on millennials, and my office debated the merits of the term for a global audience, that I realized I was one.
Back in December 2012, Philip Seymour Hoffman sat down with philosopher Simon Critchley at the Rubin Museum to talk about happiness. Days after reeling from the actor’s death, much has been made of the singular pain of addiction and the lonely descent into acting in a difficult role. But the interview touches on something universal, a base human inability to simply be happy. Within the first two minutes of the interview, Hoffman declares, “I really don’t know what it means to be happy.”
Say what you will about Barack Obama’s temperament for politics but his parenting chops are less impeachable. Since he took office, he’s been a visibly involved father who forgoes currying congressional favor for nightly family dinners. As parents, Barack and Michelle Obama clearly impose normalcy through a single principle: structure.
As a child, I was known for going to restaurants and ordering chicken—only chicken. There were so many choices and the mild, firm protein felt safe. Now my old standby has become an arsenic-riddled, bacteria-filled breast of poison. And sadly, it’s not just chicken. Ground beef is full of pink slime and gluten is slowly poisoning our brain.
This was a live Google hangout discussion on Jan. 8 moderated by our editor in chief, Kevin Delaney, with Kara Swisher of Re/Code, Farhad Manjoo of the Wall Street Journal, and Quartz science and technology editor Christopher Mims to discuss this year’s outlook for technology.
Nelson Mandela’s image is now ubiquitous. But after his imprisonment in 1964, it was illegal to photograph or republish a photo of the political prisoner in South Africa. Thus, a generation of apartheid South Africans grew up without Mandela—or at least all the photos of him flashing before us now with news of his death. The first photo to be released in 1986 was legal because it was taken by South Africa’s Department of Prisons. Here it appears in the Weekly Mail, 22 years after the ban:
Massive open online courses have quickly fallen out of favor—initially thought to be the savior of higher education, the huge classes are now its punching bag. Critics of the free online courses point to low completion rates, a devaluation of degrees, the displacement of professors, and an absence of necessary classroom time. But a more effective application of the standalone courses is taking root, notably outside of the US.
In what would be the largest settlement a company has ever made with the US government, JP Morgan has reportedly reached a tentative deal of $13 billion with the US Justice Department for investigations into its residential mortgage-backed securities business, according to the Wall Street Journal.
More than a year since Coursera launched, the startup offers more than 400 free classes to reach 4 million students around the world. Massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs, have been touted as higher education’s savior, but more likely are taken by people looking for training and skills development.
A year after Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi came to power, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have taken to Tahrir Square to call for his removal. Protestors accuse Morsi of failing to tackle economic issues like high gas and food prices as well as security issues.
It’s hard to deny the benefits of financial stability to a child’s upbringing. But new research suggests that the goals of pursuing wealth and raising a child are incongruous. Parents with more money and education derived less meaning from childrearing. It’s possible that people who find less purpose in parenting are drawn to higher paying jobs.
For the first time in history, the world is farming more fish than cattle. According to a recent report from the Earth Policy Institute, the output of farmed fish reached 66 million tons (60 million tonnes) in 2012, more than the 63 million tons of beef production.
