My search for an acre of escape — It was the rock that caught my eye. Dappled with lichen and lighted by the afternoon sun, it appeared to be the perfect place for contemplation. …

This is the year to de-center your smartphone — For the sake of yourself and your country, it is time to get off your phone. Yes, I know you needed to see the latest inquiries into January 6th, the most recent QAnon theories, the debunking of those theories and then the debunking of the debunking. Then perhaps you’ll want…

It’s the Awe we need, not the “Awesome” — This month, the Surgeon General finally sent out an official warning to parents that “there is growing evidence that social media use is associated with harm to young people’s mental health.” For those of us with teenagers this has been self-evident ever since our children started harassing us to own…

Here’s how to do it — With the U.S. Surgeon General’s warning this week that “there is growing evidence that social media use is associated with harm to young people’s mental health,” we finally have official sanction to limit our children’s Instagram and TikTok accounts. …

New evidence reveals unfair influence of elastics manufacturers — Ever since this page broke the disturbing news about Pickleball, whistleblowers have been sending us tips of foul play in the wellness/personal improvement space. This week a leaked memo from a prominent elastics trade association confirmed what we’ve long suspected: a wide-ranging and inflexible relationship between stretchy-band manufacturers and physical…

If you want to grow food you can eat, this is how you do it — Beginning this spring Eliza Milio became this page’s junior staff writer. Funded through a fellowship from The Safina Center, Milio worked as an organic farmer in California through some of the toughest conditions the planet could throw at a young grower. She’ll be writing here about the intersection of climate…

“Rien” n’est pas une réponse — À quand remonte la dernière fois que quelqu’un vous a dit « non » ? Si vous fouillez votre esprit ou relisez votre correspondance, je pense que vous constaterez que ce mot utile de trois lettres a commencé à s’estomper au début. Aujourd’hui, “rien” est le nouveau “non”. Peut-être avez-vous…

F. Scott’s last creation is a warning to the picket line — “Most writers,” the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “look like writers whether they want to or not. It is hard to say why.” I thought about this recently as the writers of the Writers Guild of America announced they would go on strike against their studio overlords for the…

Our article in Time Magazine this week tells… —