How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy:by Kathleen McAuliffe
Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?
Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.
Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.:by Mac McClelland
It's insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It's also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.
The Score
The Score:by Atul Gawande
Human birth is an astonishing natural phenomenon. Carol Burnett once told Bill Cosby how he could understand what the experience was like. "Take your bottom lip," she said, "pull it as far away from your face as you can, and now pull it over your head.
The Hot Spotters
The Hot Spotters:by Atul Gawande
Can we lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care?
Colossal in Scale, Appalling in Complexity
Colossal in Scale, Appalling in Complexity:by B. Alexandra Szerlip
Norman Bel Geddes and the surprising genesis of the most iconic World's Fair exhibit of all time.
Inhaling the Spore
Inhaling the Spore:by Lawrence Weschler
A Visit to the Museum of Jurassic Technology.
20 Great Articles about Sex
20 Great Articles about Sex:A Tetw reading list
Great writing about the ins and outs (sorry!) of physical attraction, porn and prostitution, and having sex.
An ode to the many evolved virtues of human semen
An ode to the many evolved virtues of human semen :by Jesse Bering
I have come upon a secret treasure, a heretofore-unknown bounty of facts about the narcotic effects of human semen…
Safe-Sex Lies - New York Times
Safe-Sex Lies - New York Times:by Meghan Daum
I've gone into more than a few relationships with the safest of intentions and discarded them after the fourth or fifth encounter. Perhaps this is a shocking admission, but my hunch is that I'm not the only one doing it…
10 Classic Articles
10 Classic Articles:As chosen by the editors of Matter
Matter is a new online magazine that publishes "the best writing about the ideas shaping our future". We asked co-founders Jim Giles and Bobbie Johnson to pick ten favourite articles for us, this is what they chose:
No Secrets by Raffi Khatchadourian - Julian Assange's mission for total transparency
Mind vs Machine by Brian Christian – Can a computer act "more human" than a person?
Death Grip by John B. Judis - How political psychology explains Bush's ghastly success
Autism, Grown Up by Amy Harmon - Autistic and seeking a place in the adult world
What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 by Jeff Wise - Revelations from the pilot transcript paint a surprising picture of chaos in the cockpit that led to the crash.
Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? by Jennifer Kahn - There is no standard test for psychopathy in children, but a growing number of psychologists believe that psychopathy, like autism, is a distinct neurological condition — one that can be identified in children as young as 5.
The Storm by Sebastian Junger – How six young men set out on a dead-calm sea to seek their fortunes and were hit by the worst gale in a century.
Whodunnit by Jon Ronson - Criminal profilers were once the heroes of police work, nailing offenders with their astonishing psychological insights. So why did it all fall apart?
Apocalypse by Junot Diaz - What Disasters Reveal
My Summer in an Indian Call Center by Andrew Marantz - Taken together, the millions of calls made and received in India constitute one of the largest intercultural exchanges in history.
For more great links from around the net follow Matter on Twitter, and if you want to read some of the best future-oriented journalism around, head to readmatter.com.
How to Shake Hands with a Woman
How to Shake Hands with a Woman:by Lindy West
This modern world, it is confusing. Women dressing up as men, striding around office buildings willy-nilly, their brazen crotchal forks shrouded only in a thin layer of cotton-poly blend? What's next—dogs on their hind legs wearing pith helmets and taking all the best gentleman explorer jobs!?
How to...
How to...:A Tetw reading list
The Electric Typewriter's literary guide to 12 essential life skills (in approximate order of importance):
How To Be a Person by Lindy West
How to Get a Nuclear Bomb by William Langewiesche
How To Write A Love Poem by Jim Behrle
How to Disagree by Paul Graham
How to Operate a Shower Curtain by Ian Frazier
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
How to Raise Men by A.J. Jacobs
How to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature by Jim Behrle
How to Bully Children by Sarah Miller
How to Use a Squat Toilet by Frank Bures
How to learn a language in 22 hours by Joshua Foer
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
For more advice about life from the world's top writers click here.
The Return of the Barbarian
The Return of the Barbarian:by Venkat Rao
Our cartoon view of history goes straight from the Flintstones to Jetsons without developmental stages of any consequence in between; the influence of nomads on the course of human history is grossly underestimated.
Restless Genes
Restless Genes:by David Dobbs
The compulsion to see what lies beyond that far ridge or that ocean is a defining part of human identity and success.
The End of the Hangup
The End of the Hangup:by Ian Bogost
Why the physical form of smartphones and the unreliable operation of cellular networks has made hanging up the telephone impossible.
Dearly Disconnected
Dearly Disconnected:
We cursed and abused them, and now many of us do without them. A tribute to the payphone, a vanishing icon.
How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy
How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy:by Nathaniel Rich
A surprisingly high percentage of long-distance-train passengers are escaping something…
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
Trains, Planes and Automobiles:
Is the Web Driving Us Mad?
Is the Web Driving Us Mad?:by Tony Dokoupil
New research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed—and may cause more extreme mental illness.
Sad as Hell
Sad as Hell:by Alice Gregory
In the past year, I graduated from college, got a desk job, and bought an iPhone: the Bermuda Triangle into which my ability to think in the ways that matter most to me has disappeared…
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