A new audience finds comfort and meme-ready material in an old pseudoscience.
Julie Beck
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The New Age of Astrology
What’s behind the recent surge of interest in astrology — especially among millennials?
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes
The Flavor of Childhood: Sweet Medicine
One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.
Posted inCurrent Events, Featured, Nonfiction, Quotes
There Are Reasons We Can’t Handle the Truth
Julie Beck digs deep into news silos, alternative facts, and cognitive dissonance.
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This Article Won’t Change Your Mind
The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
What ‘Ask Polly’ Columnist Heather Havrilesky Learned About Love as a Video Game
At The Atlantic, Julie Beck talks to Heather Havrilesky about her new book How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly’s Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life, a collection of her “Ask Polly” advice columns on New York Magazine‘s The Cut blog (originally at The Awl) plus some that haven’t been published before. In a […]