Gloria LinThe Engineering of the Chain Restaurant Menuverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Megan GarberAt IHOP and Applebee's, menus are sales documents. And navigational guides. And explainers. This weekend I had lunch at an International House of Pancakes. The menus my companion and I were given to help us navigate this experience were large and laminated and, in their overall demeanor, perky. They …
Gloria LinThis brilliant illustration shows how much public space we've surrendered to carsverified_publisherVox - Joseph StrombergMost roads in the US are built for cars, not for pedestrians. Whether we're happy or unhappy with this, most of us are aware of it. But this brilliant illustration, made by Swedish artist Karl Jilg and commissioned by the Swedish Road Administration, shows just how extreme the situation truly is — …
Gloria LinFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNobel Prize Winner Shows that Meditation Significantly Slows Aging. | elephant journalelephantjournal.com - Dr. John Douillard (29,620)In 2009, Elizabeth Blackburn won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of the protective caps on chromosomes called, “telomeres.” Every time a cell …
Gloria LinWhy Saying Is Believing — The Science Of Self-Talkverified_publisherNPR - Laura StarecheskiFrom the self-affirmations of Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live to countless videos on YouTube, saying nice things to your reflection in the mirror is a self-help trope that's been around for decades, and seems most often aimed at women. The practice, we're told, can help us like ourselves and …
Gloria LinThe Perfect Wifeverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Ariel LevyHow Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage. “Fuck the Supreme Court!” Edith Windsor said, one hideously hot morning in June, when she’d had just about enough. Then she sighed and mumbled, “Oh, I don’t mean that.” What she really meant was that she was hot, …
Gloria LinTales of the Trashverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Peter HesslerIn Cairo, my family lives on the ground floor of an old building, in a sprawling, high-ceilinged apartment with three doors to the outside. One door opens onto the building’s lobby, another leads to a small garden, and the third is solely for the use of the zabal, or garbageman, who is named Sayyid …
