Rakish Zen
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Ambition Doesn’t Ask Permission: A Century of World Cups Says So
In 1909, a football club made up almost entirely of coal miners from County Durham sold off personal belongings and passed a collection plate around their own impoverished village so…
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The Cognitive Cost of Good Banter
In 2017, a team of researchers in New Zealand discovered that kea parrots have a specific call reserved entirely for play. Not for food. Not for danger. Not for mating.…
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Nobody Wants Scott: The Actual Architecture of Male Attractiveness
In October of 1911, two men raced for the same frozen finish line, for reasons that had nothing to do with women and everything to do with what women, a…
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The Voice Nobody Taught You to Use
In the summer of 1964, a self-conscious teenage John Fogerty landed a two-week bar gig in Portland, Oregon, and decided, out of nowhere, that he was going to start singing…
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The Falconer’s Eyes: What Your Gaze Says Before You Say a Word
A master falconer will tell you the whole trade lives in two rules: never grab, never stare. You stand in the field with your arm loose and your face turned…
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The Confidence Con: What Actually Makes a Man Magnetic
In 2016, the psychologist who helped launch one of the most-watched TED Talks in history stood up and quietly demolished her own life’s work. Dana Carney had co-authored the original…