Pocket’s Top-Saved Stories of the Week: November 23, 2024

A simple guide to max out your gains and fill out your shirtsleeves.

The biology and psychology behind the disconnect.

The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.

We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the Walmart, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he used to be somebody. He still is.

When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. For 47 years, she closely guarded her identity and her story. Until now.

As revolutionary new weight-loss drugs turn consumers off ultraprocessed foods, the industry is on the hunt for new products.

What normies can learn from a concierge gifting service for celebrities.

Achy muscles are often telling you something—just not what you may think.

It took less than twenty-four hours after Trump’s reëlection for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of gendered regression: “Your body, my choice.”

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

What people get wrong about ancient Rome, the “re-buttonization” of dashboards, and the pros and cons of washing bananas.