On TikTok, Philosophy Is Getting Edgy. The End of the Avocado.

How Long Should It Take to Grieve? Psychiatry Has Come Up With an Answer.

Ellen Barry • The New York Times

The latest edition of the DSM-5, sometimes known as “psychiatry’s bible,” includes a controversial new diagnosis.

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The Man Behind Ethereum Is Worried About Crypto’s Future

Andrew R. Chow • Time

Vitalik Buterin dreamed up the blockchain technology for uses beyond currency. Now he’s fighting to fix the industry.

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Evan Rachel Wood Faced Her Fear

Angelina Chapin • The Cut

“I just couldn’t bear living my life like that for one more second or the thought of it happening to anybody else.”

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End of the Avocado: Why Chefs Are Ditching the Unsustainable Fruit

Clare Finney • The Guardian

Give peas a chance—as well as pistachios, fava beans, and pumpkin seed paste. These are just some of the ingredients being used to replace one of the world’s most popular fruits.

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In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things

Bill McKibben • The New Yorker

The truth is new and counterintuitive: we have the technology necessary to rapidly ditch fossil fuels.

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Why We Listen to Music With Lyrics We Don’t Understand

Romano Santos • Vice

A musicologist and music therapist-in-training explain why the language of song lyrics doesn’t always matter.

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On TikTok, Philosophy Is Getting Edgy … or at Least Concise

Stephen Harrison • Slate

Why are contemporary philosophers, including tenured university professors, suddenly making TikTok channels?

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Putin Has Redrawn the World - But Not the Way He Wanted

Allan Little • BBC

It is a rare thing to live through a moment of huge historical consequence and understand in real time that is what it is.

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