A Weekend in Chicago (Published 2016)
Three days, 64 people shot, six of them dead: Memorial Day on the streets, and the violence that has engulfed families and neighborhoods. “The Newlywed Game” is on the television. Julia Rhoden, 53, is sitting on her bed, exhausted from another long day at the health care center where she works as a nurse’s aide. There is a loud boom and then another and another. She feels a sting as a bullet enter
Opinion | How Facebook Warps Our Worlds (Published 2016)
THOSE who’ve been raising alarms about Facebook are right: Almost every minute that we spend on our smartphones and tablets and laptops, thumbing through favorite websites and scrolling through personalized feeds, we’re pointed toward foregone conclusions. We’re pressured to conform. But unseen puppet masters on Mark Zuckerberg’s payroll aren’t to blame. We’re the real culprits. When it comes to e
Opinion | To Write Better Code, Read Virginia Woolf (Published 2016)
Mountain View, Calif. — THE humanities are kaput. Sorry, liberal arts cap-and-gowners. You blew it. In a software-run world, what’s wanted are more engineers. At least, so goes the argument in a rising number of states, which have embraced a funding model for higher education that uses tuition “bonuses” to favor hard-skilled degrees like computer science over the humanities. The trend is backed by
Recognizing Spring, Scientifically (Published 2016)
Crocuses in bloom at the New York Botanical Garden. Credit Ivo M. Vermeulen/New York Botanical Garden This article has been updated for the start of this year's spring. Like the Science Times page on Facebook. | Sign up for the Science Times newsletter. With the recent vernal equinox, the Northern Hemisphere officially entered spring. But for many of us, the start of the season isn’t astronomical.
The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People (Published 2016)
Unemployed Indians handed in paperwork at a government employment office in 2012.Credit...Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press AT no point in recorded history has our world been so demographically lopsided, with old people concentrated in rich countries and the young in not-so-rich countries. Much has been made of the challenges of aging societies. But it’s the youth bulge that stands to put greate
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This (Published 2015)
More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer, I applied his technique in my own life, which is how I found myself standing on a bridge at midnight, staring into a man’s eyes for exactly four minutes. Let me explain. Earlier in the evening, that man had said: “I suspect, given a few commonalities, you could fall i
Opinion | Narcissism Is Increasing. So You’re Not So Special. (Published 2016)
MY teenage son recently informed me that there is an Internet quiz to test oneself for narcissism. His friend had just taken it. “How did it turn out?” I asked. “He says he did great!” my son responded. “He got the maximum score!” When I was a child, no one outside the mental health profession talked about narcissism; people were more concerned with inadequate self-esteem, which at the time was be
Opinion | Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate (Published 2016)
NORMALLY, I would have finished this column weeks ago. But I kept putting it off because my New Year’s resolution is to procrastinate more. I guess I owe you an explanation. Sooner or later. We think of procrastination as a curse. Over 80 percent of college students are plagued by procrastination, requiring epic all-nighters to finish papers and prepare for tests. Roughly 20 percent of adults repo
A Bitcoin Believer’s Crisis of Faith (Published 2016)
Mike Hearn, a Bitcoin developer, in his apartment in Zurich.Credit...Daniel Auf der Mauer for The New York Times Mike Hearn, a British computer programmer, holed up in his two-bedroom apartment in Zurich over several days and nights last week, writing a cri de coeur. Two years ago, Mr. Hearn quit a cushy programming job at Google’s Swiss headquarters to devote himself full time to what was his gre
52 Places to Go in 2016 (Published 2016)
When Pope Francis visits Mexico City next month, he will draw the faithful from around the country. The Mexican capital, though, is attracting pilgrims of another kind: travelers seeking some of the world’s best cuisine, museums and forward-thinking design. With young people from around Latin America and Spain streaming into the city, and the Mexican peso hitting record lows against the dollar, th
In the Dirtiest Cities, Air Pollution Forces Life Changes (Published 2015)
Smog on the outskirts in New Delhi last year. Life in the world's most polluted cities presents an array of challenges and perils for residents.Credit...Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Thick layers of toxic smog often blanket the skies in Hanoi, limiting visibility to less than a mile away. When the pollution gets really bad in Beijing, children are kept home from school or res
Opinion | A Neurotic’s Guide to Small Talk (Published 2015)
As a lifelong neurotic, I sympathize with the daily struggle to conquer human-to-human small talk. Parties, weddings, bars, offices, public transportation: Small talk is all around us. Holiday party season makes it worse. Let this serve as a helpful guide on how to respond to simple questions from strangers and vague acquaintances alike. Q: “Hey, how’s it going?” In this instance, the speaker is s
Opinion | Addicted to Distraction (Published 2015)
ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue. I simply couldn’t marshal the necessary focus. I was horrified. All my life, reading books has been a deep and consistent source of pleasure, learning and solace. Now the books I regularly purchased were piling up ever high
Opinion | Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier. (Published 2015)
TWENTY-FOUR years ago this month, my wife and I married in Barcelona, Spain. Two weeks after our wedding, flush with international idealism, I had the bright idea of sharing a bit of American culture with my Spanish in-laws by cooking a full Thanksgiving dinner. Easier said than done. Turkeys are not common in Barcelona. The local butcher shop had to order the bird from a specialty farm in France,
The Case for Melancholy (Published 2015)
Everywhere you look these days you see something on how to be happy — how to manifest abundance, desires and success, find your bliss. A quick Google search will produce instantaneous remedies for the blues: the promise that it’s possible to find happiness in 10 or 15 easy steps. Some strategies promise happiness in as few as three steps. Whatever happened to experiencing the grace of melancholy,
Opinion | My Dark California Dream (Published 2015)
CALIFORNIA’S over, everything I love about this place is going to hell. I knew there was something familiar about this thought from the moment it occurred to me in Yosemite National Park. My sister and I started going to those mountains 40 years ago with our parents, who taught us to see the Sierra Nevada as a never-changing sanctuary in a California increasingly overrun by suburban sprawl. Once w
Opinion | The Reign of Recycling (Published 2015)
IF you live in the United States, you probably do some form of recycling. It’s likely that you separate paper from plastic and glass and metal. You rinse the bottles and cans, and you might put food scraps in a container destined for a composting facility. As you sort everything into the right bins, you probably assume that recycling is helping your community and protecting the environment. But is
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