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Chances are you've been deploying a passive mindset in your life and career. Don't blame yourself—you've been taught that way. But you'd be doing yourself a favor if you switched over to an active mindset. Here's how.

“I’m bored.” When’s the last time you said that? I bet not too long ago.
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On this day in 1946, the bikini was introduced. But more than a design innovation borne of post-war fabric rationing, it represents a fight for the female body—that women won.

"The emancipation of swimwear has always been linked to the emancipation of women."
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It doesn't need to be this way.

Writers are artists, and the story of artists is to suffer in order to achieve an image of greatness - why?
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"Setting 'Apeshit' in the Louvre is more than just a flex: It’s a dramatic expansion of the type of culture normally presented in this elite space, one where people of color have long felt excluded and unwelcome," writes Lauren A. Henry.

In the first music video from their collaborative album, Everything Is Love, Beyoncé and Jay-Z completely take over the Louvre. Long lines, security guards, and rope barriers be damned, the Carters…
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"The emotional safety net of sex work was comfortable, because it had always supported my life. Romantic love and dating had destroyed it."

I have an every-Tuesday man who brings me gifts in the strip club where I still dance topless. Never jewelry or Gucci bags — things most strippers want so we can flip them for cash to pay rent and…
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All Americans are inextricably united by a profound dissatisfaction with everything.

A quick, related story: I knew a Turk who lived in the predominantly Greek neighborhood I called home for many years. The Greeks and the Turks do not like each other very much. But that didn’t stop…
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Nutrigenomics—where dietitians and doctors tailor a diet plan based on your DNA—is a hot topic right now. But would it work?

Nutritional genomics would mean the end of dietary guesswork, but science hasn't quite caught up to the hype It seems like a straightforward question - one a single well-designed study should be able…
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In a small room at a private resort, a technology expert fielded questions from the ultra-wealthy—not about what to invest in next. But about how they could survive the end of the world.

Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been…
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Transhumanists' quest for immortality starts to sound a little stupid when you consider how terrible we are at helping people who are already alive.

The Transhumanist movement is made up of people of various political leanings. There are those who skew left-of-center, those with a more libertarian mindset, and there are even some who are archly…
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Success doesn't follow a formula. But there are a few guiding principles—and this is one of them.

El éxito no sigue una fórmula. Pero hay unos pocos principios rectores y éste es uno de ellos.
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On the outside, successful people tend to look like they don’t have a care in the world.
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You and your partner don't need to share the same interests to get along.

Usted y su compañero no necesitan compartir los mismos intereses para seguir adelante.
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You don’t have to like all the same things your partner does.
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"Seemingly small design decisions can have tremendous implications. Much can be expressed through very little in visual design. Myth does the same."

Redefining and recontextualizing mythology and design
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What happens when you give up almost everything and just leave.

After I sold my company, I left behind everything I knew about career, work, and certainty to reclaim part of what I lost in my twenties - attention.
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China's first internet titan believes technology is raising the world's depression rates—and he's investing over a billion dollars in trying to fix it.

El primer titán de internet de china cree que la tecnología está elevando las tasas de depresión del mundo, y está invirtiendo más de mil millones de dólares en tratar de arreglarlo.
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Chen Tianqiao could easily be mistaken for someone enjoying retirement. It’s not just his attire: a short-sleeved white shirt with a floral pattern down the middle, relaxed blue trousers, a pair of…
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'House Hunters' offers excellent insight into how race and housing play out in American cities.

'House Hunter' ofrece una excelente visión de cómo la raza y la vivienda juegan en las ciudades americanas.
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The HGTV show highlights more than just open kitchens and bickering couples
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Electrocution therapy is back—and actually helping people.

La terapia de electrocución está de vuelta y ayudando a la gente.
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When I first told my friends I was going home for a few months to get electrocuted, they thought I was insane. I think some of them wondered if I was literally insane, given that…
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