We All Fail at Adulting, So Let's Celebrate Doing the Bare Minimum
And so, in accepting that I haven’t ticked off even half of my bucket list and live in a perpetual waiting game, I have committed myself to patting myself on the back for achieving the bare minimum.
Social media can be a weapon, and it’s time US troops get trained on it
Leaders need to be taught the risks and rewards of social media in a new era of information warfare. By Hannah Smith | Published Jun 30, 2022 9:00 AM On a Saturday evening, the Twitter handle ...
Spanish translation of 'quotidian'
Spatial categories vary greatly between languages and recent research has shown that speakers rely on the linguistic conceptualization of space in performing many quotidian tasks.
WORK STUDY
In his new show, Going Deep, artisanal pencil sharpener David Rees explores how to tie shoes, flip coins, dig holes, and perform other quotidian tasks with care and sophistication. Here are his ...
The 25 best films of 2022 (so far)
At the midyear mark, we put the spotlight on movies big (Top Gun: Maverick), small (Marcel The Shell) and Everything Everywhere in between ...
A Better Word than Happiness: Eudaimonia
Properly exploring our professional talents, managing a household, keeping a relationship going, creating a new business venture or engaging in politics… none of these goals are likely to leave us ...
A little bit of ceremony
Today I read Murdoch’s lush descriptions of the minutiae of Charles’s life with a bittersweet acknowledgement of the things we have in common, namely theatrical self-obsession and a humdrum, quotidian ...
Observing the Scribe at Work
The act of writing is a quotidian and vernacular practice as well as a literary ... How did they accomplish this task? Did they copy the text by sight, or did someone dictate it to them? More ...
The Kingdom of Insignificance: Miron Bialoszewski and the Quotidian, the Queer, and the Traumatic
In one of the first scholarly book in English on Miron Bialoszewski (1922-1983), Joanna Nizynska illuminates the elusive prose of one of the most compelling and challenging postwar Polish writers.
Robb Report Names Porsche 911 GTS As Best Performance 'Daily Driver'
In naming the Porsche 911 GTS as Best of Best, Robb Report calls the model “a performance monster that can attack with the best, and yet is also happy to be enlisted for quotidian tasks, genially shop ...
The Motherhood Penalty: why attempting to ban abortion is just the tip of the iceberg
We have been at this work for so long and it, much like parenting, has been a task disproportionately taken on by women ... in so many ways – both quotidian and systemic – forced to pay the motherhood ...
Finally, a Novel That Gets the Internet Right
“Moving quickly, almost frantically, as though trying to complete an urgent task, I navigated back to Ashley’s profile and clicked her header photo: a group of wealthy-looking small women and ...
