lauren, you might find this interesting

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The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed”

A no-phones-allowed show illuminates something about smartphone use that’s hard to see when it’s so ubiquitous: our phones drain the life out of a room.

i mentioned this short piece at dinner last night

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The 38 Best Restaurants in America

The fine dining stunners, neighborhood charmers, and regional vanguards that show us who we are and how we eat

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See which words were first recorded in 2016. Or search for other words by the year when they were first used.

this is fun - put in your birth year and learn which words were added to the dictionary that year

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The Banality of Brett Kavanaugh

The guys like Brett Kavanaugh who run the show have no special qualities or insights that should oblige us to put up with their bullshit. Th

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The Educational Tyranny of the Neurotypicals

The current school system is too rigid, and it’s designed for a different world anyway.

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Death to the Open Floor Plan. Long Live Separate Rooms

the anti-open-concept viewpoint

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holy molyyyy

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wonderful

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maybe this is the right way to interpret current events

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this is a really deep interesting approach to the question of who likes video games and what they get out of them. (it's different for different people)

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via sabih

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really nice outsider's look at the importance of having a mixed-race, foreign-raised president

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Mariah Carey’s Rather Perfect Farewell to 2016

On New Year’s Eve, the singer was plainly aware of both the humor and the absurdity of her predicament.

sums it up nicely.