Sounds Like the Blues
At a music-licensing firm, any situation can become nostalgic, romantic, or adventurous, given the right background sounds.
Browsing Tag
Sep/Oct 2014
20 posts
There’s a Name for Why You Feel Obligated to Upgrade All of Your Furniture to Match
And it's called the Diderot effect.
In the Picture: One Multi-Acre Plot of Land for Every American Indian Family
In every issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details in the frame.
The Heist: How Visitors Stole a National Monument
Fossil Cycad National Monument was home to one of the world’s greatest collections of fossilized cycadeoids—until visitors carried them all away.
Zombies in the Quad: The Trouble With Elite Education
William Deresiewicz's new book, Excellent Sheep, is in part, he says, a letter to his younger, more privileged self.
Carbon Taxes Really Do Work
A new study shows that taxing carbon dioxide emissions could actually work to reduce greenhouse gases without any negative effects on employment and revenues.
The Grateful Dig: An Archaeologist Excavates a Tie-Dyed Modern Stereotype
What California’s senior state archaeologist discovered in the ruins of a hippie commune.
A Feeling of Control: How America Can Finally Learn to Deal With Its Impulses
The ability to delay gratification has been held up as the one character trait to rule them all—the key to academic success, financial security, and social well-being. But willpower isn't the answer. The new, emotional science of self-regulation.