Pocket’s Top-Saved Stories of April 2024

A new study shows that moving away from a big city can be bad for your career.

Decluttering can feel overwhelming. Try this systematic approach to pre-planning how much you’ll part with and how much you’ll keep.

Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.

What should you do with opened tins, cut avocados and egg yolks that weren’t required in your recipe? Chefs and food experts tell all.

“I love them. I just don't love the choice I made.”

Keep your desktop or laptop in good health with these seven computer maintenance tips, including removing old apps and tidying your browser.

The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Peter Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way.

Extreme dieting is the latest way for the mega-rich to signal their wealth and status.

The great Swiss psychoanalyst left us a surprisingly practical guide to being happier.

Get to know your grandkids by asking the kind of questions that will appeal to their curiosity.

Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas

Cancer used to be a disease of the old. Not anymore.

He’s a wild, monomaniacal jerk. He’s also our greatest interpreter of American manners since Emily Post.

Walking is great, but it can only take you so far.

I asked former CIA agent Jason Hanson to reveal the best life hacks his CIA training could provide. Use these techniques to stay safe, improve your rapport with your co-workers, and suss out liars.

New research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may be less distinct than previously thought.

Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many food brands crying foul at the company’s blatant and aggressive copycat culture.

The air fryer is just a little oven that blows, and the idea that air frying is a new cooking technique is a myth.

Some words, when used in specific situations, have deeper meanings than you realize: They’re codes to alert those in the know while keeping others in the dark.

“If it’s not easy, then people get lazy, and that’s when disorganization happens.”

Lessons from deathbed visions, the passive-aggressive phrases you may not realize you’re using, and how to make your Google searches more precise again.