Articles Tagged with #lifehacks
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Personal Histories
A Lifetime’s One Regret
Does hindsight improve with age? People, ages five to 60, name their life’s biggest mistake and what they learned.
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Palliative Measures
Songs in the Key of Death
America’s funeral parlors rely on one man to provide the theme music for your grandmother’s memorial service, the pop radio for your cousin’s wake. Welcome to “semi-spiritual” ambient music and the stuff of contemporary mourning.
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Life 3.0
All Your Futures Are Known
Our correspondent forecasts the week ahead for five volunteers and discovers an eerie rate of success. Secrets, tips, and truths revealed about how to predict the future.
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Taking Stock
What I Didn’t Write About When I Wrote About Quitting Facebook
The emergence of the Social Media Exile essay has been swift and smug. A language expert dissects a genre while also being seduced by its allure.
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Personal Essays
Hard Up
When you’re feeling perky as a teenager but the doctor says your prostate is basically a Chinchorro mummy, a little erectile dysfunction can be suffered on the path to wellness. Oh, but the sex drive…
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Hit It + Quit
The List Maker
Some people keep notebooks. Others keep lists. One type wants to remember; the other wants to forget. What’s not clear is who’s happier for all the scribbling. Confessions of a list-aholic.
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The Non-Expert
Life Hacks for the Rest of Us
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain the well-traveled secrets and tricks that really can make your life a little bit easier, even while they fail to improve you in any way.