“Listening attentively to find meaning and music.”
Peter Rubin
The Future Is Too Easy
“CES, which this year claimed 141,000 attendees and 4,500 exhibitors, could on the other hand have been anywhere, or everywhere.”
Do Our Dogs Have Something to Tell the World?
“Many owners think so, thanks to the ‘talking buttons’ craze on TikTok and Instagram. Scientists are less convinced.”
Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of “Saturday Night Live”
“He’s ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, making comedy, and living the good life.”
Smells Like Protein Spirit
“The chase for the golden 200 grams of protein per day, and the pop-up notification confirming such maxxing, has many of us thinking differently about what, and how, we eat. But is this actually healthy?”
The Tickling of the Bulls: A Rodeo at Madison Square Garden
“It’s an especially American paradox: a ruthlessly meritocratic system where men nonetheless live to pull each other up by their bootstraps.”
How Jukeboxes Made Memphis Music
“When R.E. Buster Williams ruled jukeboxes and jukeboxes ruled music.”
Crumple Zone: What Car Crashes Reveal About Human Hubris and Fragility
“Risk, racing and a shared father-daughter legacy of survival.”
Scholar’s Mate
“After an emotionally tumultuous year, and in search of a way to return to his old self, a writer unexpectedly finds himself devoted to chess.”
