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An Audacious New Read of The Decameron - The author Rivka Galchen sums up this reading in her Decameron Project introduction: "Reading stories in difficult times is a way to understand those times, and also a way to persevere through them."
Boccaccio's masterpiece follows 10 young nobles fleeing an outbreak in Florence that would ultimately reduce the city's population by half. To pass the time in their rural idyll, they tell the stories that make up the bulk of the book-one apiece for 10 days, hence the title. The consensus interpretation of The Decameron is that it illustrates the power of storytelling to buoy us through history's horrors. The author Rivka Galchen sums up this reading in her Decameron Project introduction: "Reading stories in difficult times is a way to understand those times, and also a way to persevere through them." Kathleen Jordan, the creator of Netflix's The Decameron, came away from her pandemic-era reading of Boccaccio with a different understanding. What if, her black comedy proposes, the book's true timeless message is that whether they're Florentine aristocrats in 1348 or Manhattan financiers in 2020, the privileged will always blithely abandon their less fortunate neighbors when the plague comes to town? Jordan has stripped The Decameron of its stories, choosing instead to riff on the frame narrative.
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August 05, 2024
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Everyone On the Web Will Die. What About Their Data?- The internet is aging. As soon as the 2060s, there may be more dead than alive users on Facebook.
The internet is aging. As soon as the 2060s, there may be more dead than alive users on Facebook. We know that everyone using the internet will die, and that hundreds of millions, if not billions, will do so in the next three decades. We know this poses a serious threat to an economy based on targeted ads (the dead don't click on them). We also know that whoever seizes control over dead-user data will wield enormous power over our future access to the past. Just consider that one person –Elon Musk, no less– now owns the entirety of the tweets that constitute(d) the Arab Spring, #MeToo, and Black Lives Matter. When future historians seek to understand their past, it is the Musks and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world who will set the terms.
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August 26, 2024
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As the Personal Check Disappears, What Comes Next? The check. A thousand years later, this form of payment is finally disappearing.
The newest type of payment –the first to be introduced in the U.S. since the 1970s– is called instant payments, in which money moves from your account to another immediately. You may think you already use instant payments with services like Venmo, but you don't. Those payments come from a Venmo account rather than directly from your bank account, and the funds can take some time to move.
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August 26, 2024
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Captains of Industry set sail
IT WAS PERHAPS INEVITABLE THAT THE CAST OF INDUSTRY would find themselves on a yacht.
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August 26, 2024
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Keivonn Woodard
ACTING FOR REPRESENTATION
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August 26, 2024
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Jordan Sucato
PROTECTING PAWS
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August 26, 2024
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Shanya Gill
FIGHTING FIRE WITH INGENUITY
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August 26, 2024
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Dom Pecora
FIXING BIKES, CHANGING LIVES
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August 26, 2024
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Kid of the Year
ONE EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG PERSON AND FIVE HONOREESGIVING US HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
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August 26, 2024
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How to Avoid A Climate Backlash
The energy transition hangs in the balance, as green policies fuel right-wing politics
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August 26, 2024
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THE Pursuit OF Happiness
A NEW STARTUP RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO OPTIMIZE SPIRITUALITY
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August 26, 2024
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SECOND CHANCE
The reintroduction of Kamala Harris
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August 26, 2024
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Bibi At War
THE EMBATTLED PREMIER ON GAZA, IRAN, AND ISRAEL'S PERILOUS FUTURE
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August 26, 2024
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Sam Bankman-Fried's D.C. charm offensive
IN 2022, IT WAS HARD TO WALK AROUND WASHINGTON without seeing Sam Bankman-Fried's face.
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August 26, 2024
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The D.C. Brief
IF THE UPPER MIDWEST IS THE fail-safe for Democrats' Blue Wall, then they reached to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in search of a new break-in-case-of-emergency tool.
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August 26, 2024
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WATERGATE'S REAL LEGACY
When Richard Nixon resigned, 50 years ago this August, he became the first and (so far) only U.S. President driven from the nation's highest office. His departure was the result of the political establishment coming together in the wake of Watergate. The experience, Nixon's successor asserted, had vindicated American democracy. \"Our Constitution works,\" President Gerald Ford declared.
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August 26, 2024
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Victory for González
Venezuela's defiant opposition
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August 26, 2024
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Bangladesh on edge after coup
SHEIKH HASINA WAZED WAS PROUD of her house.
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August 26, 2024
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UNGREAT BRITAIN
How online misinformation stoked antimigrant riots across the U.K.
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August 26, 2024
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The View - Hip-Hop Needs A Reckoning - Misogynoir is, of course, not unique to hip-hop. Universal systems of oppression are prevalent in the lives of Black women.
Misogynoir is, of course, not unique to hip-hop. Universal systems of oppression are prevalent in the lives of Black women. Cassie Ventura is not the first survivor of hip-hop's abuse, and unfortunately will not be the last. In the months since she filed a federal lawsuit against Sean "Diddy" Combs for rape and abuse in November 2023, seven women and one male survivor have come out against the mogul with stories of alleged abuse and harm.
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August 05, 2024
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A Global Movement Against The Status Quo - With so many elections in big countries this year, it's a good time to look at how the politics of democracies is shifting.
With so many elections in big countries this year, it's a good time to look at how the politics of democracies is shifting. But this is no simple turn to the left or the right.
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August 05, 2024
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Behind The Opulence Of Anant Ambani's Big Fat Indian Wedding - The wedding celebrations for the son of Asia's richest man
The wedding celebrations for the son of Asia’s richest man culminated in a lavish, celebrity-filled three-day gathering that came to a close in Mumbai on July 14. Mukesh Ambani, chairman of India’s largest conglomerate, Reliance Industries, hosted festivities over seven months for his son Anant Ambani’s marriage to pharmaceutical heiress Radhika Merchant.
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August 05, 2024
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The Complicated Work of Treating Trauma - Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk has spent 30 years figuring out why people behave so strangely.
The Body Keeps the Score is not a self-help book; it is a summary of the scientific advances in understanding and treating trauma in the past century and why van der Kolk believes medicine is still not grappling with it effectively. But for many readers, it was an epiphany. As the book has lingered atop best-seller lists for the past five years, trauma has been elevated from a subject discussed mostly in the medical and military communities to a feature of the national conversation.
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August 05, 2024
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Tech Racket - Inside the "nightmare" health crisis of a Texas Bitcoin-mining town
More than 40 people in the Granbury area reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine. Studies have shown that human-caused noise pollution harms animals and wildlife, causing oxidative stress and memory loss in rodents, acute anxiety in dogs, and a decrease in forest growth
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August 05, 2024
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5 reasons to start walking backward
I've spent my whole life happily walking in one direction: forward. It was, I believed, the only way to go, so I dutifully logged dozens of miles a month looking like every other person out for a morning stroll.
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August 05, 2024
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The WORLD'S GREATEST PLACES
Our annual list of the globe's most desirable destinations takes you from urban art hubs to remote rain forests-and even Antarctica. Start here, and find the rest of our top 100 places to stay and things to do at time.com/worldsgreatestplaces.
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August 05, 2024
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Snoop Dogg The legendary rapper on covering the Summer Olympics for NBC, being "a very legal guy," and the horse he wants to meet
When NBC came to you about this gig reporting on the Games from Paris, why did you sign on?
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August 05, 2024
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GO BIG OR GO HOME
With Twisters, Lee Isaac Chung illustrates the promise and pitfalls of indie directors making blockbusters
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August 05, 2024
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When Mother Knows Best
They have advanced degrees, kids of their own, and massive followings. A new kind of parenting expert has emerged online
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August 05, 2024
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DARKNESS RISING
An attack on former President Trump punctuates the alarming surge of political violence
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