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Have smartphones destroyed a generation?
That was the title of a viral essay by Dr. Jean Twenge in The Atlantic in 2017, which first catapulted her work into the spotlight. For years before The Anxio…
Published on 12 hours ago
The New Digg Wants to Bring Back a Peaceful Internet
Roughly 20 years ago, Digg was known as the homepage of the internet. The social and news platform was so big that Alexis Ohanian, the founder of Reddit, referred to it as “the enemy.” But things hav…
Published on 1 week ago
You Can (And Should) Change Your Personality
Certain personality traits can determine how happy you are, sometimes more than income and IQ. That’s according to author and journalist Olga Khazan. Hoping to shed some of her more neurotic personal…
Published on 2 weeks ago
The U.S. Needs a Democracy Movement
Anne Applebaum is an award-winning historian and journalist who studies democracy and dictatorship. Her latest book, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, explores how autocracies…
Published on 3 weeks ago
How Mark Cuban Wants to Fix Healthcare
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has set out to fix the broken U.S. healthcare system, and he’s starting with drug prices. In 2022, Cuban launched the online pharmacy Cost Plus Drugs, which aims to se…
Published on 4 weeks ago
How to Worry Less & Find Meaning with Happiness Expert Arthur Brooks
Arthur Brooks has spent years studying the exact components of a happy life. And now, the bestselling author and Harvard professor has collected his top findings into a new book: The Happiness Files.…
Published on 1 month ago
How to Actually Be Healthier
Dr. Jessica Knurick is a rare kind of academic: she's also very good at social media, and has recently gone viral for her criticisms of the MAHA movement. A registered dietitian with a PhD in nutriti…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
How to Stop Russian Ops from Exploiting AI
According to a recent report from data collected in August, when prompted on divisive topics in the news, the top 10 AI chatbots spread false information 35% of the time — and even spread fake storie…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
How to Turbo Charge Your Career (And Not Give A...) with Kara Swisher
Confidence comes easy for Kara Swisher. It’s one of the reasons she walked out of class in second grade (she knew everything), and later built a career as one of Silicon Valley’s most feared and resp…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
How This Company is Building Flying Taxis
When will it be relatively normal to request a ride from a flying taxi? Within the next decade, at least according to our guests today: Stuart Simpson, CEO of Vertical Aerospace, and Jason Mudrick, t…
Published on 2 months ago