Most Popular Editorials: 5 common (but dangerous) pieces of career advice

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5 common (but dangerous) pieces of career advice When you’re growing your career or advancing in your role, good advice from a trusted mentor can be motivating and inspiring. But what about the bad advice you’re also bound to receive? Whether people mean well or are just plain critical, judgements people share about you can be disorienting, distressing, and disheartening. Continued here

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What's lost when a family-owned diner closes for good? It was a hot Sunday morning in June, a typical summer’s day for St. George, Utah. The sun beamed through the east-facing cathedral windows of DeDe’s, the beloved restaurant that has served Washington County residents for the past decade. Link Feesago leaned back in his seat with a satisfied sigh, having just finished a plate of Kirk Orton’s chicken-fried steak, eggs, potatoes and toast. “This is a tradition I wanted to pass down to my sons,” he said. “Twice a month, we’d play nine holes of golf and have breakfast at DeDe’s.”  Continued here

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3 emerging Indian textile artists you need to know Alaiia Gujral lives and works in every corner of her Chicago loft, often with some blues rolling in the background on her record player. Drenched in sunlight during the day and peacefully cosy at night, the apartment that she shares with her two dogs—Huxley and Brutus—is also her place of creativity and experimentation. Continued here

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Inside the Pakistani city at the heart of Alibaba's global expansion strategy Sialkot, which has become Pakistan’s export hub in recent years, is home to one of the largest concentrations of sellers on the Chinese e-commerce site. Continued here

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'Here are actual ways to get a job': Recruiter shares LinkedIn job application hack In an Instagram DM exchange with Daily Dot, Chelsea shared that, “the reason, in my opinion, that those websites like Indeed, CareerBuilder and ZipRecruiter don’t work is because companies get paid to post jobs onto them, but they get so much traction, that that’s why most recruiters don’t actually even go through all the applicants.” Continued here

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The beginner's guide to running Just about 18 years ago, I embarked on what would become the longest relationship of my life — with running. The early days of our love affair were far from blissful, though. An angsty pre-teen who enrolled in my town’s youth track and field program, I was initially unaware of what a running routine might look like in practice. (Consistency would be the key word.) Despite many threats to quit, over time I noticed improvements to my endurance, speed, and overall mood. Nearly two decades later, I’m the stereotypical freak who runs a 5K on holidays and encourages friends to consider an easy jog a few times a week. Continued here

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Gaslighting: What are the signs and how do you deal with it? “You sound crazy!” “You know you’re overreacting, right?” “Why do you always have to be so sensitive?” Have you been on the receiving end of these verbal slingshots? Has it made you second-guess your beliefs and perception of reality? Chances are, someone’s been gaslighting you and you haven’t even realised it. Continued here

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Locked-in Syndrome and the Misplaced Presumption of Misery Despite near total paralysis, surveys suggest most LIS patients are happy. Researchers want that more widely understood. Continued here

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How to stay focused when everything feels stressful and overwhelming In the past two years, we’ve seen more disruption than we typically see in decades. As if the pandemic of 2020 wasn’t enough, we’re now dealing with inflation increasing at the highest rate in more than 40 years, empty shelves in grocery stores, plummeting stock market tickers, and gas prices more than double what they were in 2020. (How I miss the good old days of $2 per gallon.) Continued here

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Surprised by how disoriented you're feeling right now? You're not alone If there’s a common refrain that seems to be cropping up in conversations, whether they’re face to face or online, it’s a general feeling of disorientation; of not knowing quite how to react in the face of change or being surprised by your emotions when you do react. “I’ve never been particularly emotional about stuff like this,” one friend admits. “But this time, I think it’s more unsettling because of the accumulation of everything that has been going on over the past few months. It’s an odd feeling – like everything’s happening at once but you’re also weirdly suspended because of the uncertainty.”  Continued here

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Relationship Rupture and the Limbic System: The Physiology of Abandonment and Separation Each month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) going. For fifteen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor has made your own life more livable in the past year (or the past decade), please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference. Continued here

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Investing for Retirement Income Is Different - Rethink 60/40 Rule | Kiplinger I may not dispute the traditional approach for investors who are 25, 35 or 45 years old and accumulating savings for retirement or the kids’ college education. As we know, markets historically rebound, and younger investors with time to recover from market corrections have the benefit of dollar cost averaging.   Continued here

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DuckDuckGo email privacy service now available to all A DuckDuckGo Email Protection service was last year launched as a limited beta, with a waiting list for those wanting to use it. The waitlist is now gone, and anyone can get access to it right away. The privacy-focused email forwarding service strips out trackers, and offers the ability to create disposable email addresses, all […] Continued here

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Beijing's plan to control the world's data: out-google Google Wang is a known quantity in the world of U.S. biotech. He cut his teeth as a genetics researcher at the major public research universities of Texas, Iowa and Washington. He's now the snowy-haired, charismatic chairman of Shenzen-based BGI, the world's largest biotech company, which for decades has been collaborating with some of America's leading geneticists. BGI participated in the global effort to sequence the first human genome, formed a partnership with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to identify genes associated with pediatric diseases, and named an institute in China after Harvard's George Church, a gene-editing pioneer, who continues to work with the company. Continued here

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Two dozen tech founders living in a mansion. What could go wrong? The people here are young and friendly and full of hope. And why shouldn’t they be? For one month, they get to live in a mansion in Beverly Hills (Zillow estimate: $12.9 million). It’s not just any mansion, but the one where Paris Hilton used to live, with a precious little pergola overlooking a million-dollar view of Los Angeles, next to a pool surrounded by tastefully sculpted rocks, with bathroom faucets shaped like swans about to take flight. Continued here

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Why the Capital of India Is Flush with Mosquitoes City residents have long resorted to low-cost, do-it-yourself remedies that may be harmful to human health. Continued here

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Should we really believe scientific facts will last forever when history is full of revolutions in thinking? Two simple rules can help us identify future-proof science. Continued here

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What kind of great power will India become? Three books offer insights into New Delhi’s relationship with the US and China — and ask where the rising nation will go from here Continued here

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How do good conversations work? Philosophy has something to say | Psyche Ideas The idea of what makes for a successful conversation is always tricky, and has always been contested by philosophers Continued here

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Sylvia Fowles's Final Ride and the Last Days of a Legend The Minnesota Lynx star’s final season hasn’t gone exactly according to plan, but the future Hall of Famer is still cherishing every little moment—and lesson—before she walks away from the game she relentlessly dominated for 15 years Continued here

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How specialist commentary will help blind fans at Qatar World Cup During Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018 – and some European tournaments – ADC services were offered in English only, with the 2021 Arab Cup being the first major tournament to have this service in Arabic, a key requirement given Qatar 2022 will be the first football World Cup to be hosted in the Middle East. Continued here

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Jean-Luc Godard Was Cinema's North Star No one did more to make movies the art of youth than Jean-Luc Godard, who was born in 1930, in Paris, and died on Tuesday, at his home in Rolle, Switzerland, by assisted suicide. Godard's films of the nineteen-sixties, starting with his first feature, "Breathless," inspired young people to make movies in the same spirit in which others started a band. His works—political thrillers, musical comedies, romantic melodramas, science fiction, often more than one per year—moved at the speed of his thought, transformed familiar genres into intimate confessions, and made film form into a wild laboratory of aesthetic delight and sensory provocation. He put his own intellectual world into his movies with a collage-like profusion of quotes and allusions, and cast the people in his life as actors, as stars, or as icons. Working fast, he alluded to current events while they were still current. But it wasn't just the news that made his films feel like the embodiment of their times—it was Godard's insolence, his defiance, his derisive humor, his sense of freedom. More than any other filmmaker, he made viewers feel as if anything were possible in movies, and he made it their own urgent mission to find out for themselves. Where Hollywood seemed like a distant, cosseted, and disreputable dream, he made the firsthand cinema—the personal and independent film—an urgent and accessible ideal. Continued here

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Dictators, Dresses and Dorgis: The Books That Throw Unexpected Light on Elizabeth II Ben Pimlott - The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth IIAn academic historian and Labour intellectual, Pimlott was not the obvious person to take on the task of writing the life of the Queen. We should be grateful he did. With access to many new parts of the royal archive, and interviews with everyone from Princess Margaret to Hardy Amies, Pimlott offers a pin-sharp analysis not just of the woman but of the whole phenomenon of modern monarchy. He's especially good on the Queen's relations with her prime ministers. Clearly she could detect nonsense at 50 paces. Continued here

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How a Big Slab of Butter Becomes a Masterpiece Last week I found myself standing in front of a large glass case containing priceless pieces of art. The sculptures depicted women’s faces, with long hair framing round cheeks and big smiles. As I admired the artist’s work, my reverie was interrupted by a server barking out orders for malts and ice cream cones. Continued here

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17 new restaurants in India to dine at this September—across Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bengaluru, Goa and Kolkata It's a new month and there's a whole lot to savour with the opening of new restaurants in India alongside revamped menus and fresh dining concepts if you've been looking for a reason to step out and try something new in your city. From contemporary bakes and Indian specialty coffees to modern Indian and Pan-Asian nibbles, bookmark these spots to eat at or order in this month. Continued here

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The first cards for Lorcana, Disney's answer to Magic: The Gathering, are spectacular The first cards for Disney Lorcana, the ambitious new trading card game from Ravensburger, arrived today at the D23 convention in Anaheim, California. They include seven characters from across Disney’s nearly 100-year history of pop culture dominance — as well as one card of Mickey Mouse himself exclusive to the convention. Continued here

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Chess Is in Chaos Over Suspicion That a Player Cheated Against Magnus Carlsen You will be charged $ + tax (if applicable) for The Wall Street Journal. You may change your billing preferences at any time in the Customer Center or call Customer Service. You will be notified in advance of any changes in rate or terms. You may cancel your subscription at anytime by calling Customer Service. Continued here

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Help! I Paid for My Half-Sister's Bedroom Makeover. Then Our Stepmother Stole It All for Her Own Kid. My sibling is heartbroken, and I’m furious with my stepfather. Continued here

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How TikTok Has Supercharged the Age-Old Debate Over Sleep Training In January 2021, Alice Bender made baby sleep go viral on TikTok. While holding her 5-month-old son, Fern, in his nursery, Bender, then 21, explained to her iPhone camera why he didn’t have a crib. “We literally buy these little baby jail cells so that we can just leave our baby in there and walk away,” she said. “I don’t have a crib because I will never enforce my baby to have a bedtime. Babies are people, too, and forcing anyone to sleep when they’re not tired is inhumane. Imagine if your partner locked you in a container you couldn’t get out of and told you you had to sleep even though you weren’t tired. That would be abuse, and you’d probably leave them.” Continued here

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Racism Kept Connecticut's Beaches White Up Through the 1970s Lebert F. Lester II still remembers his first trip to the beach. It was the late 1970s, and he was 8 or 9 years old, the eighth in a family of 11 children from a poor and mostly African-American neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut. The shore of Long Island Sound lay less than 40 miles away, but until that weekend Lester had only ever seen the ocean in books and on television. Continued here

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A New Approach to Domestic Violence Separated from her mother in Jamaica and brought to the United States as an infant, Walcott was exposed to “sexual abuse, sexual trauma, hospitalizations and so on and so forth,” she says, from the start. She lived with her father, but it was a chaotic life. At age nine, she required surgery after a particularly violent sexual assault by a close family friend. Looking back, she’s not really surprised that she got into one damaging relationship after another as a teen, then as an adult. Continued here

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4 European routes where you should take a train instead of a plane - The Points Guy Traveling by train between cities in Europe comes with a number of benefits. Here's why you should hit the rails instead of taking to the skies — and several routes made for train travel. Continued here

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From celebrity jets to Pelosi's Taiwan trip, flight trackers are the sleeper hit of the summer On Tuesday, viewers set new records on Flightradar24, one of the largest flight tracker websites in the world, as they watched the seven-hour flight of Nancy Pelosi from Kuala Lumpur to Taipei. The trip, shrouded in secrecy until its final moments, grabbed international attention after China made military threats in the weeks leading up to the visit, and then launched live-fire exercises once she had departed. Continued here

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A Simple Way to Stay Grounded in Stressful Moments Mindfulness should be as much a physical practice as it is a mental one. Given its name, you might think mindfulness is something you do only with your mind. In fact, lots of research, including my own, has shown that paying attention to our bodies is often an easy way into mindfulness and helps us reduce stress while it’s happening. Continued here

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Leaders Focus Too Much on Changing Policies, and Not Enough on Changing Minds So why is business transformation so difficult to achieve? One reason is the invisible fears and insecurities that keep us locked into behaviors even when we know rationally that they don’t serve us well. Leaders can change processes, policies, seating arrangements, and other external factors, but until they change people’s internal feelings, assumptions, blind spots, and fears, they’ll struggle to make change stick. This kind of transformation should start with the leaders themselves, since its their personalities that often shape corporate culture. Continued here

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The Economist Who Knows the Miracle Is Over The polymath economist was writing a book on economic modernity—about how humans transitioned from eking out an existence on our small planet to building a kind of utopia on it—and he saw an inflection point centuries after the emergence of capitalism and decades after the advent of manufacturing at scale. “The Industrial Revolution is good. The Industrial Revolution is huge,” he explained to me recently, sitting on the back porch of his wood-clad Colonial Revival in Berkeley, California. But “as of 1870, things have not really changed that much for most people.” Soon after that, though—after the development of the vertically integrated corporation, the industrial research lab, modern communication devices, and modular shipping technologies—“everything changes in a generation, and then changes again, and again, and again, and again.” Global growth increases fourfold. The world breaks out of near-universal agrarian poverty. Modernity takes hold. Continued here

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Heat in Europe Is Driving Up Olive Oil Prices Nearly half of the world’s olive oil is produced in Spain, with the U.S. one of the country’s largest export markets. Prices of most edible oils are already high after the war in Ukraine led to shortages of sunflower oil, prompting buyers to seek alternatives for use in cooking and as an ingredient in food products. Continued here

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Why Fast Food Is Racing to Ditch the Dining Room Five hours into a long drive through New England last week, I needed coffee. I pulled up to a Dunkin’ in Gorham, New Hampshire, parked, and got out of the car. Mistake. In the donut-scented interior, I learned that this Dunkin’ wasn’t taking orders in the store—only at the drive-thru and via the app. Reluctantly, I downloaded Dunkin’, selected a large cold brew, tapped in my credit card number, and watched in silence as two workers prepared and placed the coffee on the largely obsolete counter. Continued here

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Your Work Is Not Your God: Welcome to the Age of the Burnout Epidemic Billionaire tech-industry titans brag about their hundred-hour work weeks, even though their labor isn’t what boosts their companies’ stock prices and enriches them further. Americans with advanced degrees have the highest average earning power, but typically work more and spend less time on leisure than people with less formal education. The children of rich parents are twice as likely to have summer jobs as poor kids are. And many older American professionals with plenty saved for retirement keep showing up at the office. Continued here

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Why Companies Are So Interested in Your Myers-Briggs Type - JSTOR Daily If you’ve looked for a job recently, you’ve probably encountered the personality test. You may also have wondered if it was backed by scientific research. Continued here

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Ultra-processed foods linked to heart disease, cancer, and death, studies show Dr. Fang Fang Zhang is an associate professor and chair of the Division of Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, and corresponding author and co-senior author of the colorectal cancer study. Continued here

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How Dentists Keep Their Own Teeth Healthy Two dentists share their daily dental hygiene tips. Continued here

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Shoes Are Banned In My House—But I Have One Very Important Exception As someone fighting a Sisyphean battle to keep my home clean (cat hair notwithstanding), I have declared shoes public enemy number one. The soles of your shoes harbor more grossness than you might think. There's the obvious stuff — your garden variety dirt, grass, leaves, grime, debris, and liquids from various unknown sources. But then there are the remnants from the floor of your office, car, or any stray grocery store, coffee shop, or public restroom you wander into before you appear at my door. And don't get me started on the unholy level of filth on the sidewalk and street of this country's great cities and urban areas (like the one where I live). Continued here

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Scientists finally know why we get distracted -- When psychologist Jonathan Smallwood set out to study mind-wandering about 25 years ago, few of his peers thought that was a very good idea. How could one hope to investigate these spontaneous and unpredictable thoughts that crop up when people stop paying attention to their surroundings and the task at hand? Thoughts that couldn’t be linked to any measurable outward behavior? Continued here

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Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness Years ago, when I had my first media interview about my research on humility, the interviewer was curious whether studying humility actually made me any humbler. She asked me to poll my wife, to see how humble she perceived me to be. When I solicited my ranking from one to 10, my wife gave me a four. Continued here

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Forgive Yourself. It's Good for You. What's the last little mistake you made? Are you still beating yourself up about it? If you're still holding onto guilt and shame, you're not alone, and there's nothing wrong with you. We all tend to ruminate on the bad. And actually, it's not necessarily a bad thing. Emotions like guilt, especially, are indicator emotions: letting us know something isn't right, and reminding us what our true values are. But so often we punish ourselves, and that can hold us back from showing up for ourselves and others in the way we want to. Continued here

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You may qualify for over $10,000 in climate incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act. Here's when you can claim them The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Aug. 16, represents the largest federal investment to fight climate change in U.S. history. Among other measures, the law offers financial incentives to consumers who buy high-efficiency appliances, purchase electric cars or install rooftop solar panels, for example. Continued here

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Our other real estate problem - people have too much wealth tied up in houses An Ipsos poll of 18,000 people documents how much of this country’s total household assets are tied up in real estate. For all Canadians, it’s 77 per cent. Generationally, real estate’s share of assets ranges from lows of 68 per cent for seniors and 71 per cent for boomers to a high of 89 per cent for the young adults of Gen Z. Continued here

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The best secret Android settings, and how to enable them Get useful information within seconds with these codes. Continued here

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Smart Streetlights are Casting a Long Shadow Over Our Cities - Failed Architecture Major cities across the US are introducing smart streetlights with the promise they'll provide safer and more sustainable public spaces. But behind th... Continued here

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The End of Kiwi Farms, the Web's Most Notorious Stalker Site On the morning of August 5, in London, Ontario, police put an assault rifle in Clara Sorrenti's face. Sorrenti is a trans activist and Twitch streamer who provides political commentary under the handle Keffals. Earlier that morning, an impersonator had sent an email to city councillors claiming that Sorrenti had killed her mother and would soon go to City Hall to shoot every cisgender person she saw. "When I was woken up by police officers and saw the assault rifle pointed at me, I thought I was going to die," Sorrenti later recounted in a video on YouTube. "I feel traumatized." Continued here

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Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is 'now inevitable' The research shows the global heating to date will cause an absolute minimum sea-level rise of 27cm (10.6in) from Greenland alone as 110tn tonnes of ice melt. With continued carbon emissions, the melting of other ice caps and thermal expansion of the ocean, a multi-metre sea-level rise appears likely. Continued here

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Lost Cities and Climate Change Not far from my grandmother's house is a ghost city. At Angel Mounds on the Ohio river about eight miles southeast of Evansville, there are a few visible earthworks and a reconstructed wattle-and-daub barrier. There is almost nothing left of the people who build these mounds; in a final insulting erasure, the site is now named after the white settler family who most recently farmed the land. Continued here

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The Debate Over Muslim College Students Getting Secret Marriages In July, Adeel Zeb, the Muslim chaplain for the Claremont Colleges, near Los Angeles, posted on Facebook about something that was bothering him. “I have been approached by multiple Muslim couples recently to perform / lead their ‘secret nikkah (secret Islamic traditional marriage),’ ” he wrote. These students told him that they had fallen into haram, or sin, by having sex outside of marriage, which is prohibited by Islam. They wanted to get right with God by getting married—but they wanted to do so without telling their parents. Zeb described their thinking: “In the short term, I can exercise my passion, and in the long term I won’t go to hell.” Continued here

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Inside Balmoral Castle, the Queen's beloved Scottish home Queen Elizabeth II had been visiting her beloved holiday home Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire since she was a child. Set within the Cairngorms National Park on the banks of the River Dee, it was reportedly her favourite residence for its green, wide-open spaces, the beauty of which she could enjoy away from the public eye. It also enabled her to enjoy a more ordinary kind of family life: reportedly, Prince Philip used to enjoy manning the barbecue, while the Queen would put on rubber gloves and do the washing up, before gathering to play after-dinner parlour games. Continued here