Most Popular Editorials: The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

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The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital. They knew what they were doing — right? Continued here

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How Amazon Consumed All of Commerce If you’ve ever tried to research how the Big Bad Tech Monopolies of our time got so big and bad, you’ll find that these stories are typically pretty straightforward. Google, for example, started as a search engine company in the mid-90's, and spent decades buying and bullying competitors until it swallowed just about all of the search engine market. Facebook started as a social network, and then copied or bought out the competition until it became the most popular social network on the planet. But Amazon... well, Amazon’s a bit different. Continued here

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Don't Focus on Your Job at the Expense of Your Career The gap between what we have to do today and where we see ourselves in the future can be vexing. We’d like to advance toward our goals, but we feel dragged down by responsibilities that seem banal or off-target for our eventual vision. In this piece, the author offers four strategies you can try so that you can simultaneously accomplish what’s necessary in the short-term while playing the long game for the betterment of your career. Continued here

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Remote workers are starting new businesses behind their bosses' backs Her full-time job involves helping dentists in California, but her new business, Blurred Bylines, focuses on small firms and nonprofits in Michigan, where she lives and works remotely. Rose says her main job is still her main priority. She also says her job is aware of her startup and is okay with it. Continued here

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What scientists know -- and don't know -- about how monkeypox spreads In some ways, the virus is acting differently than it has in the past. For decades, researchers in West and Central Africa, where the virus is endemic, have observed that outbreaks there tend to be self-limiting. A single case or small cluster would pop up occasionally, caused by hunting and handling infected animals or being bitten by one, but those spillover events rarely kicked off long chains of transmission within communities. Continued here

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Your body may be pushing you to make worse choices after a day of hard thinking, study finds Does it feel like you don't have much control over the decisions you make after a long day of hard thinking? You are not alone. New research has shown the biological processes behind cognitive fatigue, and experts share what you can do about it. Continued here

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What Lies Beneath: Our Love Affair With Living Underwater In November 1966, the Gemini 12 spacecraft, carrying two astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific. The four-day mission was a triumph, proving that humans could work in outer space, and even step into the great unknown, albeit tethered to their spacecraft. It catapulted the US ahead of the USSR in the space race. Continued here

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The Coming California Megastorm This vapor plume will be enormous, hundreds of miles wide and more than 1,200 miles long, and seething with ferocious winds. It will be carrying so much water that if you converted it all to liquid, its flow would be about 26 times what the Mississippi River discharges into the Gulf of Mexico at any given moment. Continued here

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That's It. You're Dead to Me. Last spring, my boyfriend sublet a spare room in his apartment to an aspiring model. The roommate was young and made us feel old, but he was always game for a bottle of wine in the living room, and he seemed to like us, even though he sometimes suggested that we were boring or not that hot. Continued here

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Habit Stacking Will Trick Your Mind Into Adopting a New Habit | Well+Good Developed by self-help author S.J. Scott in his book Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less, the concept of habit stacking is just what it sounds like. You identify any regular habit (which can be as small as brushing your teeth or closing your laptop at the end of a workday), and build a new habit on top of that existing habit. Think: “After I brush my teeth, I will wash my face.” Just like with an actual building, the stronger or more ingrained the foundational habit, the better you’ll be able to construct a new habit on top of it and secure it in place—at which point, you can add another on top of that one, and so on. Continued here

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The Work of Radical Frugality There are some people who are frugal by nature, some who practice frugality as a mandate of their faith, and some, like myself, who embrace frugality by necessity. I live within a limited income as a bulwark against a consumer culture and capitalist agenda that would prefer we consume our way to oblivion—both ours and the planet’s. We are in a quagmire given the conundrum of the capitalist agenda, a system that requires endless consumption and growth to survive, and a planet that is begging we cease. Personally, I’d rather take my instruction from Mother Earth.  Continued here

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From Netflix to Disney Plus, This Clever Trick Can Save You Money on Streaming Cut back on your streaming TV budget with this useful method. Continued here

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Why you should really stop charging your phone overnight Do you plug in your phone every night right before you go to bed? Here's what you should be doing instead. Continued here

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How to revive your old computer As a man of a certain age, I know that everything slows down as it gets older. But with computers, that decline can be especially precipitous. After just a couple of years, bootups can grow sluggish, apps may take longer to load, and the spinning wheel of death can become a more frequent feature of your user experience. Continued here

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What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive? The last time climate was as warm as it will be in the next 50 to 100 years was 3 million years ago. Continued here

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Life hacks: Handy uses for silica gel packets - YOU Magazine Consumer group Which? shared a video showing all the handy uses for silica gel packets around the house, and it's a serious game-changer. Continued here

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Newcastle United Is Finding Out What Winning in the Premier League Really Costs Last year, Newcastle United, the deeply beloved and perpetually mismanaged team from North East England, was taken over by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Now fans are finding themselves in the middle of a debate around money in the game, and what a foreign country wants with a football club. Continued here

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Meet the private chef to Premier League footballers Evidently, the legendary Raymond Blanc agreed. Marsh managed to land a job at Le Petit Blanc, where he was able to hone his craft and learn the ropes of being a professional chef. His performance was so impressive that Blanc wasted no time in offering Marsh an apprenticeship at Le Manoir – his two Michelin star restaurant. But after only a couple of years, Marsh became hungry to build a reputation for himself. Continued here

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The Making of Silent Bruce Bruce Willis’s stardom began in a boardroom at ABC in 1984. The network’s top executives had gathered to discuss Moonlighting creator Glenn Gordon Caron’s desire to cast the lead male role of David Addison with Willis, an ex-bartender from New Jersey whose only notable credit was a guest spot on Miami Vice. The executives pushed for a famous name to pair with Cybill Shepherd, a model turned actress who’d been a familiar face since the late 1960s, until the lone female executive in the room announced that she preferred Willis because he looked like “one dangerous fuck.” Continued here

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20 of the Best Science Fiction Books of All Time | Book Riot Before we get started, let me define “best” for you real fast. In this context, best does not secretly mean my favorite science fiction that I’m calling best because I’m the one writing the article. The best science fiction books of all time — at least the ones on this list — are the ones that remain highly rated, are incredibly popular, or have made some sort of mark on the science fiction genre or its various sub-genres, even mainstream culture as a whole. There are also only 20 books on this list, meaning it is not conclusive, as I am one person. I will inevitably miss a book that you think belongs on this list. So many science fiction falls into the definition of “best” that I’m using. Continued here

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It's a Great Time to Hunt For Rare Fruit Online Chefs and home cooks are finding Hana yuzu, Meiwa kumquats, and hundreds of hard-to-find fruits just a click away. Continued here

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In FX's 'The Bear,' Italian beef is a means for grief. Here's how memory and food span science, time and place Food scientists and cultural cooks share how meals help us heal from personal loss. Continued here

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How Animal Crossing helped me explore my gender It’s 2013, and tonight my friends and I are getting together to wish on falling stars during a meteor shower. Like many young teens meeting up with their pals, I want to show off my sense of style, so I spend a solid amount of time trying on different skirts, dresses, and accessories in order to find the cutest look. Luckily, I don’t have to worry about how comfortable the outfit will be or whether the fabric will chafe against my skin since the clothes aren’t going on my physical body but, rather, on my villager in the world of Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the Nintendo 3DS. Continued here

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Meet the Obsessive Role-Players Who Live Inside the World of Grand Theft Auto

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How to Recognize 'Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria' in Your Child A term gaining traction in the neurodivergent community is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), which means someone feels pain when they’re criticized or feel like they’re being put down or rejected in any way. Kids with ADHD often have RSD, which is often mislabeled as being a “bad sport,” “too sensitive,” or a “crybaby.” Here we outline the signs of RSD and speak to some experts on how to help your child cope with it. Continued here

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Why is a mother serving more time than the man who abused her daughter? Failure-to-protect laws are incarcerating women all over the country—for other people's violence. Continued here

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Ayatollah Khomeini Never Read Salman Rushdie's Book Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini never read Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses," his son Ahmed told me in Tehran, in the early nineteen-nineties. The Iranian leader's murderous 1989 fatwa against the British American writer was a political move to exploit the erupting fury in Pakistan, India, and beyond over a fictional dream sequence involving the Prophet Muhammad. The book's passages, which portrayed human weaknesses and undermined the Prophet's credibility as a messenger of God, were blasphemous to some Muslims. Continued here

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How can India turn around the Parsi community's dwindling demographics? | DW | 16.08.2022 "A couple may decide to have just one child, because of rising expenses and wanting to focus all your resources on the single child," Cyrus Dhabhar, a Parsi man with one child from Mumbai, told DW. "But there are always some relatives, or acquaintances, who keep saying that you should have at least two or three children." Continued here

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How early should you get to the airport? There have always been two types of travellers: those who get to the airport extra early and those who cut arrival times as close to take-off as possible. And our editors fall on both sides of the spectrum of this eternal debate. But the truth is that nobody likes to waste time. So what are the exact recommendations for how early you should get to the airport? Continued here

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The Real Reason Why Most Plane Seats Are Blue—and Other Curious Facts About Plane Cabins

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The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital. They knew what they were doing — right?The boat was a beauty of a thing: some 500 tons across 171 feet of glass and steel as white as Santorini. All rounded edges, the five decks - one with a glass-bottom pool - were made for July on the Mediterranean, sunset dinners among the islands near Sicily, cocktails in the turquoise shallows off the coast of Ibiza. Her would-be captains showed off pictures of the $50 million vessel at parties, bragging that it would be "bigger than all of the richest billionaires' yachts in Singapore" and describing plans to adorn the staterooms with projector screens, creating a waterborne gallery for their growing collection of digital art in the form of NFTs. Continued here

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The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery Beneath the bland veneer of supermarket automation lurks an ugly truth: There's a lot of shoplifting going on in the self-scanning checkout lane. But don't call it shoplifting. The guys in loss prevention prefer "external shrinkage." Continued here

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How to Answer the Most Nerve-Wracking Interview Questions Helpful, straightforward approaches to discussing your salary expectations, resume gaps, and yes, weaknesses. Continued here

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Remote workers are starting new businesses behind their bosses' backs Her full-time job involves helping dentists in California, but her new business, Blurred Bylines, focuses on small firms and nonprofits in Michigan, where she lives and works remotely. Rose says her main job is still her main priority. She also says her job is aware of her startup and is okay with it. Continued here

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What Happens When You Stop Eating All Sugar Giving up the sweet stuff is challenging since it's found in unsuspecting places, like veggie burgers, tomato sauce, and crackers. But if you do nix added sugars from your diet, your body will benefit almost immediately, according to Dr. Eric Pham, M.D. at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Orange, California. Continued here

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What Lies Beneath: Our Love Affair With Living Underwater In November 1966, the Gemini 12 spacecraft, carrying two astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific. The four-day mission was a triumph, proving that humans could work in outer space, and even step into the great unknown, albeit tethered to their spacecraft. It catapulted the US ahead of the USSR in the space race. Continued here

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The Coming California Megastorm This vapor plume will be enormous, hundreds of miles wide and more than 1,200 miles long, and seething with ferocious winds. It will be carrying so much water that if you converted it all to liquid, its flow would be about 26 times what the Mississippi River discharges into the Gulf of Mexico at any given moment. Continued here

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Improve Your Life With the 80/20 Rule In the late 1890s, an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto observed a curious relationship between wealth and population in Italy. His calculations showed that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by just 20% of the population. He did similar surveys in other countries and found the same ratio. Continued here

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Back-Burner Relationships: The Psychology Behind “What if” and Why We Can't Let Go of Past Relationships Whether it's an ex that checks in every few months "just to see how you are" or a past date that you can't help but think there could've been more to, many of us, whether we're conscious of it or not, have casual, fleeting relationships with people from our past that we can't just fully detach from. Continued here

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The Work of Radical Frugality There are some people who are frugal by nature, some who practice frugality as a mandate of their faith, and some, like myself, who embrace frugality by necessity. I live within a limited income as a bulwark against a consumer culture and capitalist agenda that would prefer we consume our way to oblivion—both ours and the planet’s. We are in a quagmire given the conundrum of the capitalist agenda, a system that requires endless consumption and growth to survive, and a planet that is begging we cease. Personally, I’d rather take my instruction from Mother Earth.  Continued here