eleanor barkhorn

@eleanorbarkhorn — Features editor, Vox.com

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Pose harder: inside the movement to bring competitive yoga to the United States

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Why daughters fight with their mothers

A Georgetown linguist analyzed hours' worth of conversations between mothers and their adult daughters. Here's what she found out.

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There is only one reason anyone should ever use powdered alcohol: to drink on airplanes without getting ripped off. (photo by flickr user faungg)

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Beyond net neutrality: The new battle for the future of the internet

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Forget Obamacare: Vermont wants to bring a single-payer health-care system to the US

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"Being better at math didn’t just fail to help partisans converge on the right answer. It actually drove them further apart. Partisans with weak math skills were 25 percentage points likelier to get the answer right when it fit their ideology. Partisans with strong math skills were 45 percentage points  likelier to get the answer right when it fit their ideology. The smarter the person is, the dumber politics can make them."

-Ezra Klein, in "How politics makes us stupid," Vox.com's first feature

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I can't _wait_ to dig into npr's new project on the U.S.-Mexico border

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11 Things I Learned Being Killed Off On "Scandal"

This is what it feels like when you learn that creator Shonda Rhimes is going to have your character be brutally murdered and finally come to terms with what happened.

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Don’t let others tell you what you need or what you can afford

CTW, Chapel Hill, NC

We’re asking women to share their two cents. What’s a good lesson you’ve learned about using money? What’s something smart you’ve done with your money? Share your advice at http://she-works.tumblr.com

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On (Not) Getting By In The Gig Economy

For one month, I became the micro-entrepreneur touted by companies like TaskRabbit, Postmates, and Airbnb. Instead of the labor revolution I had been promised, all I found was hard work, low pay, and a system that puts workers at a disadvantage.

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Tips on pitching web stories

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When tabs get existential

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"No quarterback has ever been humanized more wonderfully than Matt Saracen as portrayed by Zach Gilford, and at no point in the series was he ever more believable than when he was standing in the middle of that road letting everything that was in him out."

The Best (Fictional) Quarterback of All Time, Grantland

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The Never-Ending Controversy Over All-Girls Education

It's extremely tricky to prove scientifically whether or not single-sex schooling is effective.

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WHEN I ASSIGN SOMETHING AND THEN FORGET ABOUT IT UNTIL THE WRITER FILES

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OH on Skype (or, It's 4 o'clock @TheAtlanticENT)

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The Creative Process Behind New York’s Iconic High Line

James Corner is one of the premiere theorists and practitioners of landscape architecture, a field that emphasizes the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve specific environmental, socio-behavioral, and aesthetic outcomes. The principal designer at James Corner Field Operations, a New York-based architecture firm, Corner focuses on landscape urbanism, an amalgamation of a wide range of disciplines including landscape architecture, ecology, and urban design. In a conversation with associate editor Jared Keller, Corner discusses the creative process behind New York’s now-iconic elevated park, The High Line, whose second section opened in June.

With the High Line, we had this extraordinary artifact that in some ways was an ugly duckling, something with potential. At the turn of the century, it was derelict; the concrete and steel and tracks were obviously in disrepair, the rails rusted, the wood cracked. Most people at the time thought it should be torn down. But where some people saw dereliction, others saw inspiration. It was in the landscape running along those broken tracks. The photographs of Joel Sternfeld (fine-art color photography and publisher of Walking the High Line (2002), an anthology focusing on the railway) had a remarkable influence in allowing people to view this thing as something with potential rather than something to be skeptical of. Running for a mile and a half through the west side of Manhattan, there’s a remarkable dialogue between nature and industry—or rather, post-industry—suspended 30 feet in the air.

Photographs, schematics, landscape ecology, and more at The Atlantic