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ChatGPT Is About to Revolutionize the Economy. We Need to Decide What That Looks Like.

New large language models will transform many jobs. Whether they will lead to widespread prosperity or not is up to us.

The Essential Spices Every Home Cook Needs

From peppercorns and chile flakes to cardamom and coriander, these are the spices Bon Appétit editors reach for the most.

‘Excellent Evidence That This Works’: How Mind Experts Protect Their Brains

While sleep and exercise are top priorities, strict diets and supplements aren’t essential in most academics’ routines.

How to Create Your Optimal Bedtime Routine

We asked experts how to craft a more intentional, peace-filled ritual to support a better night’s sleep.

15 Popular Home Remedies, and Whether or Not They Actually Work

Some of our favorite remedies really do work, but others seem to just be harnessing the placebo effect.

[Week of 3/25] How to Fall Asleep When Your Mind Won't Rest

If you can’t fall asleep because you’re playing back all the drama from earlier in the day, you are not alone.

[Week of 3/25] The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes

A century ago, Thomas Midgley Jr. was responsible for two phenomenally destructive innovations. What can we learn from them today?

[Week of 3/25] Chew Slowly, Keep Moving and Eat 30 Plants a Week: 12 Rules for Gut Health

What to eat, when, how to do it properly – and what to avoid. Experts lay out the food habits that will make a real difference to your health.

[Week of 3/25] Make a To-Don’t List

When you’re feeling stuck, focusing on the things you hate can help.

[Week of 3/25] Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?

Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.

[Week of 3/18] Conspiracy Theories Have a New Best Friend

Generative AI programs like ChatGPT threaten to revolutionize how disinformation spreads online.

[Week of 3/18] The Battle to Boost Our Deep Sleep – and Help Stop Dementia

The biological ‘brainwashing’ that happens while you are sleeping is crucial for filtering out toxins. Here’s how to optimise your overnight cycle.

[Week of 3/18] A World Without Men

The women of South Korea’s 4B movement aren’t fighting the patriarchy — they’re leaving it behind entirely.

[Week of 3/18] Influencer Parents and The Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into Content

“Nothing they do now is going to take back the years of work I had to put in.”

[Week of 3/11] How to Feel Alive Again

Katherine May, the best-selling author, has one simple question to help you get started.

[Week of 3/11] This Simple Morning Habit Can Help You Sleep Way Better at Night

It might take some practice, but your body will thank you.

[Week of 3/11] How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain

Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact.

[Week of 3/11] The Inside Story of How ChatGPT Was Built From the People Who Made It

Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon.

[Week of 3/11] How to Find Joy in Your Sisyphean Existence

Life is full of boring, futile, absurd tasks. You’ll be happier if you can laugh at it all.

[Week of 3/04] The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are

There are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age.

[Week of 3/04] Fat, Sugar, Salt … You’ve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong

Scientists are asking tough questions about the health effects of ultra-processed diets. The answers are complicated—and surprising.

[Week of 3/04] My Surreal Years Tutoring the Children of the Super-Rich

Traveling the world as a private tutor to the offspring of the oligarchy, debut novelist Sarah Thomas found herself thrown into a glossily oppressive life that she could never have imagined.

[Week of 3/04] The End of the English Major

Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?

[Week of 3/04] I’m a Chef Who’s Obsessed With My Air Fryer. Here Are My 13 Favorite Things to Make in It.

You can’t go wrong with an easy meal of air-fried nut-crusted chicken or panko shrimp.

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