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Americans eat twice as much chicken as they did in the 1970s. Why?

Fraenkel Gallery announces Carrie Mae Weems representation Carrie Mae Weems, Thoughts on Marriage, 1989 © Carrie Mae Weems; Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. SAN FRANCISCO, CA .-Fraenkel Gallery announced its representation of Carrie Mae Weems, whose groundbreaking work spanning photography, installation, video, and performance has expanded contemporary discourse for more than four decades. The gallery will work in collaboration with Jack Shainman i...

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Slow Boring Some thoughts on the New York Times Slate Star Codex profile Share This is a free preview of Slow Boring. If you like what you read, consider supporting this site by subscribing. Some time ago, Scott Alexander, the pseudonymous author of the Slate Star Codex blog, announced that he was abandoning his site. The reason was that a New York Times reporter had been in touch with him explaining that he was doing a profile of the blog, and in the course of writing it he was compelled by...

Telling the forgotten story of Osnat Barzani, the first female rabbi who lived 400 years ago, is a win for Mizrahi representation Advertisement This essay originally appeared on Kveller. A week ago, I was sitting in bed working on the questions for my interview with Sigal Samuel about “Osnat and her Dove.” Samuel’s new illustrated children’s book is about the first female rabbi in history, Osnat Barzani, also known as Asnat or Asenath Barzani. I had never heard of Barzani, having alway...

A week ago, I was sitting in bed working on the questions for my interview with Sigal Samuel about Osnat and her Dove. Samuel’s new illustrated children’s book is about the first female rabbi in history, Osnat Barzani, also known as Asnat or Asenath Barzani. I had never heard of Barzani before, having always been told […]

New book presents an impressive collection of portraits of models photographed by Zosia Prominska. Future Perfect by Zosia Prominska. Hardcover | 19,5 x 24,5 cm | 120 pages | 75 color ills. | English | ISBN 978-3-96900-006-9 | Euro 30,00. NEW YORK, NY .- The book Future Perfect is an impressive collection of portraits of prepubescent models photographed by Zosia Prominska. Staged carefully within the intimate confines of their bedrooms and surrounded by the small details reflecting their teenag...

Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Finding the best ways to do good. Soon after news broke that Elon Musk surpassed Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest person, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO asked for guidance on “ways to donate money that really make a difference,” noting on Twitter that it’s “way harder than it seems.” With his request for advice, Musk instantly became one of the most interesting philanthropists in the world. In 2...

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Their Senate majority will be slim as can be, and their margin for error in the House is also quite small. So it’s not going to be easy to get anything done. But it seems likely that the Biden White House and a Democratic Congress will try to pass legislation to expand health coverage. Regarding what Democrats’ health care agenda would look like if the party enjoyed full control of Congress and the White House, a senior party official t...

Finding the best ways to do good. Here at Future Perfect, it’s tradition to cap off each year by presenting a list of the articles that you all read the most. In the past, that’s included stories on everything from artificial intelligence to plant-based meat. And while we still covered those topics this year, our team early in the year realized we’d need to pivot to in-depth coverage of the one topic you all were reading a lot about. Pandemics and other catastrophic risks to humanit...