Constance Grady
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- Sep 2, 2026
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- Jul 21, 2026
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How to make friends by lying to them (opens the original)
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With the rise of social deduction games like Blood on the Clocktower, everyone can be a traitor now. Sometimes the best way to make friends is to lie. Around the world, people are gathering together to try to figure out if the person next to them is on their side — or is trying to double-cross them. By the end of the process, trickery or no, they’re deeply bonded. Social deduction games (and the related sister category social deception games) have been around for decades and come in a myriad of
The promising race to get kids reading again (opens the original)
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The next generation of middle-grade books doesn’t look like Harry Potter. Good. Something happens to kids when they’re about 9 years old. Before then, they’re voracious little bookworms, with most of them saying they read for fun at least five days a week. After their ninth birthday, only 35 percent still do. Experts call this phenomenon “the decline by 9,” and they spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to stop it. They talk up and cherish the books that break through: the Harry Potters a
Fast fashion is terrible for the planet. Can wardrobe cataloging apps help? (opens the original)
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Apps like Indyx say they’ll help you shop less. They might be promising too much. The influencers have started to promise me that they know how to get me to stop shopping: I just have to enter every garment of clothing I own into an app, one by one. “I digitally cataloged my ENTIRE wardrobe,” they swear on videos, routinely pulling in hundreds of thousands of views. The selling point of these apps (Indyx, Whering, ACloset, OpenWardrobe, and many more) is seductive; they promise to help users un
The surprisingly undisciplined trick to escaping social media (opens the original)
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Routines aren’t the key to healthy habits. Indulgence is. If you’re looking to wean yourself off social media and replace it with a more productive habit — and who among us isn’t — a lot of the common advice can sound like it’s coming from a drill instructor: Go outside and touch grass. Routine is key. Get your butt in the chair and don’t get up until you’ve done the work. They might as well be telling you to do a hundred pushups while they’re at it. As valuable as that advice may be when you n
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