1/5 The Atlantic is Adweek’s 2021 Hottest Magazine of the Year. Here are some highlights from our reporting:
2/5 Explore “Inheritance,” a multi-chapter project about American history, Black life, and the resilience of memory, including stories from Vann R. Newkirk II, @hannahgiorgis, @AnnaDeavereS, and more: theatlantic.com/inheritance/
3/5 Read our July/August 2021 cover story, “The Minister of Chaos,” by @TomMcTague. The British prime minister knows exactly what he’s doing, Tom argued after spending months with him: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
4/5 Read Ed Yong’s “We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic,” from September. “Today’s actions are already writing the opening chapters of the next pandemic’s history,” @edyong209 wrote.
2/4 “‘Ted Lasso’ came out of nowhere, almost,” @sophieGG says. The show was adapted from an NBC Sports ad in which an American coach who knows nothing about soccer moves to England to coach a Premier League team. The result, our critics agree, is a heartwarming, feel-good show.
3/4 #TedLasso “took off because people really loved its ethos, its optimistic sports narrative in Season 1,” @sophieGG says. @megangarber adds: “I think there’s something quietly genius about making this show that is about team sports not about the sport at all.”
2/4 “‘Ted Lasso’ came out of nowhere, almost,” @sophieGG says. The show was adapted from an NBC Sports ad in which an American coach who knows nothing about soccer moves to England to coach a Premier League team. The result, our critics agree, is a heartwarming, feel-good show.
3/4 #TedLasso “took off because people really loved its ethos, its optimistic sports narrative in Season 1,” @sophieGG says. @megangarber adds: “I think there’s something quietly genius about making this show that is about team sports not about the sport at all.”
1/ Our journey to happier living starts with the question “How do I feel right now?” In the first episode of "How To Build a Happy Life," @arthurbrooks and @danbharris explore the neuroscience of emotional management—and the first small step you can take. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/howto?…
2/ Pop culture tells us that we should get in touch with our feelings, Arthur says, but there's a danger in being too reactive to them. Our feelings are often out of balance. Meditation is one way to manage them—not eradicate them completely.
3/ @danharris, a former broadcast journalist who now hosts @10percent, was once skeptical of the value of meditation. "But then I saw the science that really strongly suggests that it can lower your blood pressure, boost your immune system, rewire key parts of your brain."
1/7 The current pandemic is far from over, but the window to prepare for future threats is closing fast, @edyong209 reports. How can the U.S. stay 10 steps ahead of tomorrow’s viruses when it can’t stay one step ahead of today’s? on.theatln.tc/ZCGlqpn
2/7 America’s frustrating inability to learn from the recent past shouldn’t be surprising to anyone familiar with the history of public health, Yong writes. The U.S. has been stuck in a Sisyphean cycle of panic and neglect:
3/7 “It might seem ridiculous to think about future pandemics now,” Yong writes. But we'll be doomed to repeat the panic-neglect cycle if we don’t act.
1/9 Today in The Atlantic, we’re thinking about offices: What are they good for, really? And why have some started to look like your living room?
2/9 Offices are “filling up with furnishings and flourishes such as comfy sofas, open shelving, framed artwork, mirrors, curtains, rugs, floor lamps, coffee tables, and materials such as wood and linen,” @jpinsk reports: on.theatln.tc/m54t8GG
3/9 Employers who use this aesthetic—known, regrettably, as resimercial—“hope that a more charming and comfortable physical space might help attract talented workers and help their employees do better work,” Joe Pinsker writes.
2/5 “Gold teeth have become as much a matter of community as of style,” @JulianThePoet writes.
“Every gold tooth in a Black mouth is a song with no lyrics … Often I’ve looked at a gold tooth and seen a kind of North Star, a light that chants ‘home.’”