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☆ Choose hope. Studies show people are better than you think
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-09 | by ( Jessica Dulong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Elites who want to ensure the status quo are well served by a population that believes things can’t get any better. Zaki: Cynicism is harmful for individuals’ overall health. Zaki: Cynicism gets treated as smart and socially savvy when it’s actually quite naive. People think, “Yeah, cynicism feels bad, but it’s the price of being right.” In fact, cynics often get things wrong. But when we lose sight of hope, cynicism drags down civic engagement.

Persons: Jamil Zaki, “ Hope, ” Zaki, Cynics, Zaki, Martin Luther King Jr, autocrats, —, Vern Evans, it’s, cynics, It’s, preciously, We’re, I’ve, Hope, “, Jessica DuLong, ” Organizations: CNN, Stanford University, Stanford Social Neuroscience, Central Publishing, General Social Survey, Elites, Vern Evans CNN Locations: Brooklyn , New York

☆ The 6 ingredients of relationship success
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Ian Kerner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

But was it “emergent love,” a concept that requires certain elements for love to emerge? "Love by Design" details six ingredients for love to emerge: mutual attraction, trust, respect, compassion, shared vision and loving behavior. CNN: You talk a lot about “emergent love.” Can you explain more about that concept? The relationship is based on equity: They give to the relationship and receive from it, too. The six ingredients of emergent love are present, and love emerges as the result.

Persons: Ian Kerner, ”, ” CNN —, you’ve, Sara Nasserzadeh, Nasserzadeh, you’re, I’m, Dr, Mehdi B, Nik, They’re Organizations: CNN, ” CNN, Grand Central Publishing, Nik CNN Locations: Los Angeles

☆ A woman unmasked her catfisher after finding 2 more victims. They were surprised to find the catfisher's true identity.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewScrolling through the profiles on OkCupid, Anna Akbari was drawn to a man who seemed handsome, witty, and highly intelligent. He was a catfisher — a person who fakes their online identity to trick victims into thinking they are someone else. He'd sent her a forged driving license, power points from his supposed job, and even copies of papers he claimed to have written at MIT. "We didn't know who this person was or why they were doing it," Akbari told BI. "Emily was Ethan, and Ethan was Emily," Akbari wrote in the book.

Persons: —, Anna Akbari, They'd, Akbari, — Ethan Schuman, MIT —, Schuman, Ethan, Gchat, — Schuman, he'd, Warren Talmarkes, I'd, didn't, Gina Dallago, She'd, Dallago, Anna, He'd, they'd, Emily Slutsky, who'd, Emily, Slutsky Organizations: Service, Columbia University, MIT, Business, New York University, BI, Skype, Grand, Valentine's, Facebook, Grand Central Publishing, Columbia Locations: Washington, DC, New York, Ireland, Irish, Akbari, New York City, Japan, Columbia, Cork

☆ Mysteries: Michael Connelly’s ‘Resurrection Walk’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Tom Nolan | Michael Connelly | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

He hires his half-brother, Harry Bosch, the retired LAPD detective who is the central character in another series by Mr. Connelly, to sift through it all and find plausible candidates for similar resurrections. Grab a Copy Resurrection Walk By Michael Connelly Grand Central Publishing 400 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million BookshopBosch chances upon Lucinda Sanz, an imprisoned woman who pleaded no contest to the murder of her ex-husband, a sheriff’s deputy shot dead on her front lawn. Sanz claims she was pressured by her attorney to accept a deal in the face of damning physical evidence, and insists she’s innocent. Bosch tends to believe her.

Persons: Mickey Haller, Michael Connelly’s, ” Haller, ”, Haller, “, Harry Bosch, Connelly, Michael Connelly, Barnes, Bosch, Lucinda Sanz, Sanz, ruefully Organizations: Lincoln Lawyer, LAPD, Michael Connelly Grand Central Publishing, Noble, Bosch, U.S, Central, Central District of Locations: Angeles, Central District, Central District of California

☆ 10 fiction books worth reading that imagine what climate change could look like
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

"The Light Pirate" by Lily Brooks-Dalton (2022)"The Light Pirate" by Lily Brooks-Dalton Grand Central PublishingLily Brooks-Dalton's "The Light Pirate", which takes place in the near future, follows an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, and their two sons as they prepare for an incoming hurricane in a small town in southeast Florida. In four parts, Brooks-Dalton explores how Florida deals with climate change over decades.

☆ Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Is in Its Early Chapters, But a Book Is Already Coming
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Elon Musk is just weeks into his ownership of Twitter—yet a new book about the billionaire’s takeover of the social platform is already in the works. “Breaking Twitter” is expected to be published next fall by Grand Central Publishing, a unit of Lagardère SCA’s Hachette Book Group.

☆ 'Harry Potter' star Tom Felton details struggle with alcoholism in new book
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Actor Tom Felton opens up about his experience with alcoholism in a new book. “I went from being not particularly interested [in drinking] to regularly having a few pints a day before the sun had even gone down, and a shot of whiskey to go with each of them,” Felton wrote, according to an excerpt published by People. “My lawyer, whom I’d barely ever met face to face, spoke with quiet honesty,” Felton wrote. Felton, now 35, most recently starred in the feature film “Burial.”“I am not alone in having these feelings,” the star added in his book. “Just as we all experience physical ill-health at some stage in our lives, so we all experience mental ill-health too.

☆ Trump campaign throws a COVID-19 lifeline to an indie bookstore in New Jersey, buying Rep. Dan Crenshaw's new book in bulk
▼ + stars: | 2020-07-20 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"It helped us pay the staff, the rent, the insurance and keep the lights on," Books & Greetings owner Kenny Sarfin said. Campaign committees are increasingly making bulk book purchases, which help juice sales numbers and propel politicos' writings onto bestseller lists. The sale follows an earlier $400,000 order of Crenshaw's book by the National Republican Campaign Committee, Politico first reported. The Trump campaign did not reply to several request for comment. While political-committee book purchases are en vogue, it's rare for Republicans — or Democrats — to purchase so many from a mom-and-pop operation.

☆ Book Review: ‘Pachinko,’ by Min Jin Lee
▼ + stars: | 2017-02-02 | by ( Krys Lee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

(This book was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017. Pachinko, the slot-machine-like game ubiquitous throughout Japan, unifies the central concerns of identity, homeland and belonging. For the ethnic Korean population in Japan, discriminated against and shut out of traditional occupations, pachinko parlors are the primary mode of finding work and accumulating wealth. From a young age, Sunja’s oldest son sees being Korean as “a dark, heavy rock”; his greatest, secret desire is to be Japanese. He believes there are still good Japanese people and sees himself as Japanese, too, “even if the Japanese didn’t think so.”

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