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Atlantic
3 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Atlantic
Our Writers' Boldest Opinions About Food
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Atlantic writers have never been afraid to make bold claims about beloved foods and beverages. Hard seltzer? Pretty bad, Amanda Mull argued in 2022. Wraps? The worst kind of sandwich, Ellen Cushing argued this week. Others have stood up for oft-maligned cuisine, like milk chocolate and candy corn. (Every time I publicly express my agreement with my colleague Megan Garber on milk chocolate being better than dark, I get a better understanding of her bravery.) Some of these attempts to revisit what we eat ultimately explore what healthy really means, and why Americans have put so much cultural or social value on certain foods. Today's newsletter explores our writers' most interesting opinions about food and drink. Food Opinions The Worst Sandwich Is Back By Ellen Cushing Wraps are popular again. So is a certain kind of physique. Read the article. Hard Seltzer Has Gone Flat By Amanda Mull Americans are realizing the truth about White Claw: It's bad! Read the article. The Truth About Slushies Must Come Out By Ian Bogost Every slushie is different. Every slushie is the same. Still Curious? The most miraculous—and overlooked—type of milk: Shelf-stable milk is a miracle of food science that Americans just won't drink, Ellen Cushing writes. Let's not fool ourselves about yogurt: There's a thin line between yogurt and ice cream, Yasmin Tayag writes. Other Diversions P.S. I asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. MKT, 78, from Waterford, Connecticut, sent this image of alpenglow over the Jungfrau Massif, from Beatenberg, Switzerland. I'll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks.
Atlantic
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Atlantic
How to Deal With Insults
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Being offended can make a person feel powerless. Someone says (or posts) something hurtful, and the sting comes fast. It doesn't dissipate just because you tell it to. But there are some ways to control our experience when we feel insulted. One of the simplest is to laugh it off: 'This is a very good option because it makes you the judge of how severe the offense is, rather than cede that judgment to some outside arbitrator,' Arthur C. Brooks wrote recently. Today's newsletter collects some advice for dealing with insults and anger. On Insults The Strength You Gain by Not Taking Offense By Arthur C. Brooks We all face uncivil behavior or insulting comments at times, but you can choose how to react. Read the article. The Worst Insult I Ever Heard as an Opera Singer By James Parker I'm not sure how to recover from this. Read the article. I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Personality By Olga Khazan The results were mixed. Still Curious? Trolls aren't like the rest of us: Online jerks and offline jerks are largely one and the same. Here's how to keep them from affecting your happiness. Stop firing your friends: Just make more of them, Olga Khazan wrote in 2023. Other Diversions What porn taught a generation of women The new old sound of adult anxiety The dumbest phone is parenting genius P.S. I asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. Joyce T., 71, shared this image of Copalis Beach, Washington.
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Lifestyle
- Yahoo
The Challenges and Opportunities of Midlife
The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. In a 2019 article, Arthur C. Brooks delivered some bad news: 'If your profession requires mental processing speed or significant analytic capabilities—the kind of profession most college graduates occupy—noticeable decline is probably going to set in earlier than you imagine.' How does a person manage professional decline when it comes for them—and, for that matter, the many other changes that midlife may bring? One idea that Brooks landed on in his research: a reverse bucket list. 'My goal for each year of the rest of my life should be to throw out things, obligations, and relationships until I can clearly see my refined self in its best form,' he writes. Today's newsletter explores the challenges and the opportunities of midlife. On Midlife Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think By Arthur C. Brooks Here's how to make the most of it. (From 2019) Read the article. The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis By Jonathan Rauch What a growing body of research reveals about the biology of human happiness—and how to navigate the (temporary) slump in middle age (From 2014) Read the article. The Two Choices That Keep a Midlife Crisis at Bay By Arthur C. Brooks Middle age is an opportunity to find transcendence. Read the article. Still Curious? Why making friends in midlife is so hard: 'I thought I was done dating. But after moving across the country, I had to start again—this time, in search of platonic love,' Katharine Smyth writes. How an 18th-century philosopher helped solve my midlife crisis: In 2006, I was 50—and I was falling apart,' Alison Gopnik writes. Other Diversions Alexandra Petri: So, what did I miss? Another side of modern fatherhood The cowardice of live-action remakes P.S. I asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. 'I recently returned to Badlands National Park with my now adult daughter,' Erick Wiger, 67, from Minneapolis, writes. 'It is a place of stark, and sometimes magical beauty.' I'll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks. If you'd like to share, reply to this email with a photo and a short description so we can share your wonder with fellow readers in a future edition of this newsletter or on our website. Please include your name (initials are okay), age, and location. By doing so, you agree that The Atlantic has permission to publish your photo and publicly attribute the response to you, including your first name and last initial, age, and/or location that you share with your submission. — Isabel Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
14-06-2025
- Lifestyle
- Atlantic
The Challenges and Opportunities of Midlife
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. In a 2019 article, Arthur C. Brooks delivered some bad news: 'If your profession requires mental processing speed or significant analytic capabilities—the kind of profession most college graduates occupy—noticeable decline is probably going to set in earlier than you imagine.' How does a person manage professional decline when it comes for them—and, for that matter, the many other changes that midlife may bring? One idea that Brooks landed on in his research: a reverse bucket list. 'My goal for each year of the rest of my life should be to throw out things, obligations, and relationships until I can clearly see my refined self in its best form,' he writes. Today's newsletter explores the challenges and the opportunities of midlife. On Midlife Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think By Arthur C. Brooks Here's how to make the most of it. (From 2019) Read the article. The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis By Jonathan Rauch What a growing body of research reveals about the biology of human happiness—and how to navigate the (temporary) slump in middle age (From 2014) Read the article. The Two Choices That Keep a Midlife Crisis at Bay By Arthur C. Brooks Middle age is an opportunity to find transcendence. Still Curious? Why making friends in midlife is so hard: 'I thought I was done dating. But after moving across the country, I had to start again—this time, in search of platonic love,' Katharine Smyth writes. How an 18th-century philosopher helped solve my midlife crisis: In 2006, I was 50—and I was falling apart,' Alison Gopnik writes. Other Diversions P.S. I asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. 'I recently returned to Badlands National Park with my now adult daughter,' Erick Wiger, 67, from Minneapolis, writes. 'It is a place of stark, and sometimes magical beauty.' I'll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks. If you'd like to share, reply to this email with a photo and a short description so we can share your wonder with fellow readers in a future edition of this newsletter or on our website. Please include your name (initials are okay), age, and location. By doing so, you agree that The Atlantic has permission to publish your photo and publicly attribute the response to you, including your first name and last initial, age, and/or location that you share with your submission.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
How Air-Conditioning Built Our Reality
The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Before the air conditioner was invented, human beings were at a loss for how to cool themselves. Some of the ideas were arguably doomed from the start: In the 19th century, as Derek Thompson noted in a 2017 article, New England companies shipped huge ice cubes insulated with sawdust around the country. 'There were even shortages during mild winters—'ice famines,'' he wrote. The air conditioner was not only a brilliant innovation; it changed the course of human life. In the U.S., it allowed people to migrate to the Sun Belt, to Atlanta and Phoenix, altering the country's demographics and politics. Globally, it allowed people in countries with excruciating heat to work more, leading to new sites of productivity and wealth. Today's newsletter explores how the air conditioner has already shaped our world, and how it continues to change our lives for better and for worse. On Air-Conditioning Your Air Conditioner Is Lying to You By Daniel Engber How does money-saver mode make sense? Read the article. How Air-Conditioning Invented the Modern World By Derek Thompson A new book by the economist Tim Harford on history's greatest breakthroughs explains why barbed wire was a revolution, paper money was an accident, and HVACs were a productivity booster. (From 2017) Read the article. The Moral History of Air-Conditioning By Shane Cashman Cooling the air was once seen as sinful. Maybe the idea wasn't entirely wrong. An Object Lesson. Read the article. Still Curious? America the air-conditioned: Cooling technology has become an American necessity—but an expensive one, Lora Kelley wrote last year. America's doublethink on working through the heat: Heat can be deadly; no federal rules currently exist to protect workers against that danger, Zoë Schlanger wrote last year. Other Diversions What the fastest-growing Christian group reveals about America Why Wittgenstein was right about silence 'What Hula taught me' P.S. I recently asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. Diego Gutierrez, 63, sent a photo of Mohonk Preserve in New York. I'll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks. — Isabel Article originally published at The Atlantic
