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Arthur Jafa's Largest Museum Survey, 'I Am Tony', Opens Across Two Floors of New York's New Museum

The show gathers nearly four decades of the filmmaker and artist's work, including his Golden Lion-winning film The White Album and the widely shown video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, alongside new paintings and sculpture.

Sep 26, 2026/2 min read

The stacked, mesh-clad boxes of the New Museum on the Bowery in New York, the building where the exhibition is held, photographed on 10 November 2008, a file photograph of the museum and not of the show

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Swicy, Nostalgia and a Duck Comeback: What Fast Food Chains Are Actually Serving This Autumn

Taco Bell paired with Olivia Rodrigo for a pink Baja Blast, Chick-fil-A launched a chicken and waffle breakfast sandwich, and P.F. Chang's brought duck back after a decade. Chains are chasing sweet-and-spicy flavour and old favourites over pumpkin spice.

Sep 25, 2026/2 min read

A hamburger and French fries, illustrative of the fast food chains covered and not a specific chain's own product, photographed in March 2024

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The Home First Aid Kit: What Belongs in It, What Does Not, and How Often to Check It

A useful kit is small, current and findable. Dressings, a thermometer, tweezers, gloves and a few basic medicines cover most household accidents. The rest is knowing what to do, which a short course teaches better than any box.

Sep 19, 2026/3 min read

Red metal first aid tins marked with plaster crosses, a stand-in for a household kit and not a fully stocked one, photographed in January 2009

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Dinacharya Said Eat Your Largest Meal at Midday, and Chronobiology Spent the Last Decade Agreeing

The Ayurvedic daily routine and modern circadian science reach several of the same conclusions from completely different premises. Where they converge is worth taking seriously, and where they part company is worth being honest about.

Sep 4, 2026/4 min read

Sunrise over tea plantations and layered mountain ridges at Munnar in Kerala, the low early light that the Ayurvedic daily routine is built around

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Forest Bathing Has Real Data and One Awkward Finding About Anticipation

Shinrin-yoku has produced a body of research showing reduced cortisol and blood pressure after time among trees. It has also produced evidence that expecting to go may lower cortisol by itself, which complicates the story usefully.

Sep 4, 2026/3 min read

Sunlight breaking through the canopy of a broadleaf woodland onto dense green undergrowth

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Brahma Muhurta Says Rise Before Dawn, and Roughly Half Your Wake Time Was Decided by Your Genes

The Ayurvedic instruction to wake around ninety minutes before sunrise is good advice for some people and a recipe for chronic sleep debt for others. Chronotype is substantially heritable, and willpower does not move it far.

Sep 4, 2026/3 min read

Mist over a river at first light, the sun still low enough to be diffused by the fog

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Read the Renewal Clause Before You Sign, Because It Is the Only Part That Governs Next Year

Most tenancy disputes are not about the rent in the contract. They are about notice periods, renewal terms, who pays for what, and what happens if you leave early, and all four are decided by clauses people skim on the day they get the keys.

Sep 2, 2026/4 min read

A hand holding a set of house keys on a house shaped fob, raised to a door lock

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One in Four American Adults Ate Every Meal Alone, and the Cost Is About the Same as Losing a Job

A study across 142 countries found that how often people share meals predicts wellbeing about as strongly as income or unemployment does. In the United States the share of adults eating every meal alone has risen more than 50 per cent since 2003.

Aug 29, 2026/4 min read

Empty wooden tables and chairs set out on the pavement outside a cafe

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Meta Will Pay 17 Billion Dollars and Switch Off the Things That Made Instagram Work on Teenagers

Forty seven states settled with Meta on Wednesday, days into a trial in Oakland. The money is a fraction of one year of revenue. The rest of the deal is a list of product changes: a daily cap for under eighteens, hidden likes, no notifications during school.

Aug 28, 2026/4 min read

An aerial view of the Facebook campus at Menlo Park in California, the headquarters of Meta

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The People You Have Never Met Are the Ones Making You Lonely, and the Friends Are Not Helping

A nationally representative study of 1,512 American adults found those with the most social media contacts they had never met in person had more than double the odds of loneliness. Contacts who were close friends made no difference either way.

Aug 26, 2026/3 min read

King's Cross station in London at night, seen from the Euston Road

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Five More Minutes of Sleep and Two More Minutes of Exercise a Day Were Worth an Extra Year of Life

A study of 59,078 people found the minimum combined improvement associated with one more year of life was startlingly small. The same study found the maximum was nine years, which is the number nobody is quoting.

Aug 25, 2026/4 min read

Low morning sunlight falling across an empty tree lined footpath