What is 'communal living' and is it right for me?For the last 14 years, Davida Wolf has been living at Seattle's WOW House. The blue storybook house's name stands for Wild Old Women. It's home to chickens named Big Red, Henny Penny, Goose and Pheasant — and three other women who, like Wolf, are over 60 and queer. WOW House is communal.
The Dangerous Rise of GPS AttacksThe disruption to GPS services started getting worse on Christmas day. Planes and ships moving around southern Sweden and Poland lost connectivity last December 25 as their radio signals were interfered with.
Pasteurization Inactivates H5N1 Bird Flu in Milk, New FDA and Academic Studies ConfirmExtensive testing of pasteurized commercially purchased milk and other dairy products from 38 states has found no evidence of live H5N1 bird flu virus, Food and Drug Administration officials said at a press briefing Wednesday.
Why writing by hand is better for remembering thingsWant to remember something? Don’t type it out—write it down.
The Great Felicity ReckoningWe saw it happen with Suits last year: A fairly undistinguished old TV show was plucked from obscurity and transformed, through the power of placement on a streaming service’s homepage, into a cultural phenomenon.
Want to Make Difficult Conversations Easy? Try This 1 Counterintuitive Trick, According to PsychologyThe anxiety you feel before entering a tough conversation can be greatly mitigated.
The Field Guide to Modern NBA Point GuardsExamining the five types of point guards in today’s game reveals a vast and varied positional landscape—one that traces the evolution of basketball and reminds us that playing the point is (still) essential work From a bird’s-eye view, most NBA basketball looks pretty much the same.
McDonald's and other big brands warn that low-income consumers are starting to crackSome of America's best-known corporations are saying their consumers are being pinched by inflation as prices continue rising.
18 Jokes That Would Get Jerry Seinfeld Canceled TodayOn April 28, a puff of white smoke emerged from every highly combustible Cybertruck engine in America, signaling that Elon Musk has elected a new anti-woke warrior.
The World’s Happiest People Have a Beautifully Simple Way to Tackle LonelinessSometimes a place for people to come together is what’s needed most.
I’ve joined the sisterhood of divorced women. We’re happier set freeChanging my car insurance was one of the many things on my list. “I need a quote for just me and my car,” I told the customer service representative. “My husband and I are getting divorced.” “I can help you with that,” the woman on the phone said. She paused.
How AI Will Change the Way You CookI love cooking so much, I treat it like a sport, and look for excuses to make complicated or unique dishes. I think developing a menu for a bunch of people with differing allergies and preferences sounds like a good time.
When Patients Do Their Own ResearchAt its best, medicine will be a process of shared decision making, and doctors need to be prepared. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.
High interest rates probably aren’t going away anytime soonThe Federal Reserve will give an announcement on interest rates during its May meeting Wednesday. Even borrowing money is more expensive these days — and the Federal Reserve might decide to keep it that way for a while.
How "Mean Boys" Control Our CultureGeoffrey Mak is no stranger to excess. For several years, the Chinese-American art critic lived in Berlin on and off, enjoying the city’s rave culture, its queer scene, and a wide variety of drugs.
4 Reasons Why We Find Some People So Inexplicably Annoying, According to ScienceFrom our ‘shadow side’ to relational blueprints: psychologists explain why we find some people unaccountably irritating and how to deal with it.
How Daniel Radcliffe Outran Harry PotterHe was the world’s most famous child star. Then he had to figure out what came next. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.