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OUTLIVE (Part 1): Peter Attia’s Guide to the Science of Longevity

Peter Attia had a problem. It was 2006. He'd recently graduated from Stanford's medical school and was completing a prestigious surgical residency at…

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THE WAGER: David Grann Tells a Tale of Shipwreck and Mutiny

David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the acclaimed author of "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon." In his new book, t…

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THE REAL WORK: Adam Gopnik on the Mystery of Mastery

A few years ago, Adam Gopnik, a longtime writer for The New Yorker and three-time winner of the National Magazine Award, started thinking about all t…

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JOY OF MOVEMENT: How Exercise Can Help You Find Happiness and Connection

Pay a visit to your local gym, observe the grimacing patrons as they pound the treadmill or march in place on the StairMaster, and you might conclude…

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BREAKTHROUGH: How to Get Unstuck and Achieve Anything

"To be alive is to battle stuckness." So declares NYU professor Adam Alter in his new book, "Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Ma…

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EXCELLENT ADVICE: Life Lessons From Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly has made a career out of looking to the future. He helped pioneer online social networking all the way back in the 1980s, and he co-found…

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SELFLESS: Why “You” Are a Social Creation

You are not autonomous. You are not an island unto yourself. You, my friend, are a social construct. The “self” you haul around — that yammering voic…

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The Next Big Idea Club Presents — "Immortality: A User's Guide"

What if you could live forever? Okay, maybe not forever, but for a long, long time — like to 150. First of all, is that even possible? And second, wh…

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Steven Johnson & Michael Specter on the Future of Life

Last month, longtime New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter released a brand new audiobook with our friends at Pushkin. It’s called “Higher Animals:…

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You Need a Bedtime (from The Next Big Idea Daily)

What if we told you that every day, in just a few minutes, you could get a master class in better, smarter living from the world's best writers? Soun…

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