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☆ How a 60-mile, sixth-grade field trip became a date with destiny
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

It was one line from an itinerary of an upcoming field trip to Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. And no place proved more prescient than those Capitol steps. Deep in my heart, I was certain that one day I’d be living in Columbia as a college student. Illustration Ian Berry/CNNThe cosmos and crimeThe afternoon stops solidified the revelation I felt on the State House steps. For me, it was a mere 60-mile, in-state field trip – culminating with a Boxed Lunch on the Capitol Steps – that proved to be my date with destiny.

Persons: I’d, Columbia –, That’s, Robert Mills, Ian Berry, Mills, disharmony, Gibbes, Alex Murdaugh, –, Douglas, Forrest Brown Organizations: CNN, Columbia, University of South Carolina, Belk, Kmart, CNN Travel, Capitol, State House, State, USC, Mills, South, South Carolina Law, Division, University of South, Presbyterian Student Center, CNN Digital Locations: Columbia, South Carolina, New York City, London, Western, University of South Carolina

☆ Opinion: The female gaze is taking over page and screen, and it is hot
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Opinion Sara Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In Amazon’s movie, Hathaway’s character, Solène, meets cute with Harry Styles-esque singer Hayes Campbell (Galitzine) at Coachella. The movie launches into a montage-heavy romp around Europe before the couple’s outed publicly, at which point a million cougar headlines take flight. I’d like to think this hoopla is overblown, that it wouldn’t really happen in this day and age. But that beautiful bed in her living room … she probably f**ked or fondled or kissed people on it all the time. “But on the other side of that it’s like, ‘Why the f**k weren’t you greenlighting it before?”

Persons: Sara Stewart, we’ve, Sara Stewart Todd Thompson “, ”, Annie Mumolo’s, Tracy, Anne Hathaway’s, Nicholas Galitzine, Harry Styles, Hayes Campbell, she’s, Olivia Wilde, “ Hayes, Styles, Wilde, —, Vogue —, Sam Taylor, Johnson, Aaron Taylor, Miranda, who’s, Davey, “, wasn’t, Glynnis MacNicol, MacNicol, we’re, heartening, I’ve, — Nicola Coughlan’s “, Penelope Featherington —, Karen Tang’s, ” Tang, “ Barb, ” I’ve, Kristen Wiig, Jamie “, there’s, Wiig, Barb, Star ”, Bridesmaids ”, ” Wiig Organizations: CNN, Vogue, New York Times, Del, Variety, Star Locations: Pennsylvania, Coachella, Europe, New York, Paris, Del Mar

☆ A Historical Novel That Is Also a Mash-Up of the Centuries
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Lizzy Harding | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But for Thirlwell, Celine is more like the chair in the corner of a bedroom where, by some quirk of gravity, everything always ends up. Just because Celine mistrusts language, seeking instead “something which language was pointing to but which escaped it forever”? To read a Thirlwell novel is to be forced to stroke one’s chin. Like Celine, Heti’s protagonist, Mira, communes with what seem to be voices of the universe and falls in love with other women. Then Celine was green too.” Let that sink in.

Persons: Celine, Thirlwell, Celine mistrusts, ”, Sheila Heti’s, Mira, ” Thirlwell Locations: Celine

☆ I took a 2-day vow of silence and stopped using my phone—here's the No. 1 thing it taught me about happiness
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

My generation was raised on the idea that happiness is a choice, so I get mad at myself for feeling other emotions. That's why, when I heard about the University of Pennsylvania's "monk class" last spring, I wanted to test drive its curriculum. The formally titled "Living Deliberately" course requires students to "observe a code of silence" and "abstain from using all electronic communications" for a month, according to the university's website. So at the end of August, I took a 48-hour vow of silence and no technology, ranging from a Sunday afternoon to a Tuesday afternoon. And I learned something that upended my sense of happiness, and how to achieve it: Less is often more.

Persons: Monks, Justin McDaniel, McDaniel, It's, I'm, Gilmore Organizations: University of Pennsylvania's, Ivy League

☆ I lived like a monk for 48 hours, and it helped me break 3 of my worst habits—here's how
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

I tried living like a monk for 48 hours. It's unusual for me to go 48 seconds without talking or checking my phone, let alone two days. I was inspired by the University of Pennsylvania's "monk class," actually called "Living Deliberately." I wanted to achieve that level of awareness, but my livelihood depends on my voice and three-pound work laptop. A seven-day break from Twitter and TikTok reduced levels of depression and anxiety in a small randomized trial, U.K.-based University of Bath researchers found last year.

Persons: Justin McDaniel, Monks, Ann Patchett's, Tom Lake, I've, —, McDaniel Organizations: University of Pennsylvania's, Ivy League, Twitter, of Bath, University of Pennsylvania

☆ 'Barbie' review: Margot Robbie stars in Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —“Barbie” comes roaring out of the gate with an inventiveness and energy the movie perhaps inevitably can’t sustain. Still, the closest kin would probably be “The Lego Movie,” which similarly took a familiar toy and built a kind of existential crisis around it. Simu Liu, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in "Barbie." Courtesy Warner Bros. PicturesThe juxtaposition of those more thoughtful elements with the sheer giddiness elsewhere – alternating between the serious and the silly, between art and commerce – doesn’t always quite mesh or feel as fresh as it might. (The film is being released by Warner Bros., like CNN, a unit of Warner Bros.

Persons: CNN — “ Barbie ”, Greta Gerwig’s, Noah Baumbach, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, “ Barbie ”, Ferrell’s, Helen Mirren, Barbie, Ken, Gosling’s Ken, Ariana Greenblatt, Simu Liu, Bird, Gosling, “ Justice League ”, “ Oppenheimer, “, overdoing, ” Organizations: CNN, Mattel, America, Warner Bros, “ Justice League, Warner Bros .

☆ Ivy League professor of ultra-popular 'monk class': These 3 changes can make you more resilient than most
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

To pass Justin McDaniel's "monk class," University of Pennsylvania students must ditch their phones — and voices — for 30 days. The class's stringent rules, modeled after actual monk practices, aren't meant to socially isolate the students. "We exercise to build muscle and endurance, but we don't practice emotions," McDaniel, a humanities professor who practiced as a monk for nearly a year at age 21, tells CNBC Make It. The monk class is supposed to be like "shock therapy," a crash course to jolt students into mindfulness: Spending a month with fewer distractions helps students become more aware of their physical surroundings and emotions, he says. In the class, McDaniel teaches that doing one thing at a time is the best way to stay present.

Persons: Justin McDaniel's, —, McDaniel, epiphanies Organizations: University of Pennsylvania, CNBC, Twitter, of Bath, Social Networking, Netflix, Stanford University

☆ Oyakodon Is Bliss in a Bowl
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Sam Sifton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Oyakodon Is Bliss in a BowlGood morning. Bryan Washington has a lovely column in The New York Times Magazine this week about the joys of oyakodon (above), the Japanese rice bowl with chicken and egg. The name translates to “parent-and-child bowl.”Bryan’s eaten oyakodon all over Japan, and he’s perfected it in his home kitchen. …MondayI love this Ali Slagle recipe for crisp gnocchi with sausage and peas, draped in mustard and melted Parmesan cheese. It’s a hearty meal that feels like spring, but if you want to plush it up a little against a cold snap, add a splash of heavy cream.

☆ The Particular Magic of Chicken, Egg and Rice
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Bryan Washington | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Even just watching the glistening bowls of animated katsudon — fried pork loins, simmered in eggs — in animated episodes of “Yuri!!! But while every iteration of donburi is three kinds of magical, oyakodon is what I’ll always return to. Tiny epiphanies: the chicken’s suppleness, the egg’s slickness, the reassuring tug of rice on your teeth. Or my calibration of liquid to filling wasn’t quite hitting, overtaking the bowl of rice rather than collaborating with it. With every attempt, your preferences may change, and with every alteration you make, oyakodon becomes squarely, and decidedly, yours.

☆ Now New York Democrats Tell Us
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

’Tis the season for epiphanies, and what do you know? It’s finally dawning on some New York Democrats that the state’s steep income tax rates are driving away top earners who fund essential public services. If only this wisdom had visited Democrats in Albany before they raised taxes last spring. Like an annoying music tape that keeps repeating, progressives are calling on Democratic lawmakers to raise taxes on the rich—again. The Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening has resulted in lower capital gains and trading revenue on Wall Street, which is hurting state and local budgets.

Centering on Julia Roberts and George Clooney, two great, aging stars of rom-coms past, “Ticket to Paradise” was always going to be a throwback. Clooney and Roberts play David and Georgia Cotton, a long-divorced couple. The divorced couple who reconcile is an old rom-com trope. Even young gorgeous individuals in a tropical paradise aren’t as effortlessly, gracefully charming as George Clooney and Julia Roberts batting putdowns back and forth. That’s ultimately also the biggest similarity between the two generations of rom-com love.

An animal voyage is special because it requires us to make many journeys all at once. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat. “If the snow leopard should manifest itself, then I am ready to see the snow leopard,” Matthiessen writes. The best trips, like Peter Matthiessen’s search for the snow leopard, find a way to make themselves permanent. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.

☆ Inside an Animal Sanctuary in Bolivia Where Tourists Can Help
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Photographs Yael Martínez | Yael Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

An animal voyage is special because it requires us to make many journeys all at once. My favorite record of an animal voyage is a book that’s fluent in failure. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat. “If the snow leopard should manifest itself, then I am ready to see the snow leopard,” Matthiessen writes. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.

☆ Lessons From a Lifetime of Animal Voyages
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Sam Anderson | Photographs Yael Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

☆ Where the Wild Things Are
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( The New York Times Magazine | Photographs Yael Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat. “If the snow leopard should manifest itself, then I am ready to see the snow leopard,” Matthiessen writes. “We’ve seen so much, maybe it’s better if there are some things that we don’t see.”Today, nearly 50 years later, if you are so inclined, you can go see a snow leopard at the zoo. The best trips, like Peter Matthiessen’s search for the snow leopard, find a way to make themselves permanent. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.

☆ The Ayahuasca Diaries
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-26 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +37 min

But please understand: I didn't drink ayahuasca so I could write an article about it. I wrote an article about it so I could drink ayahuasca. I was desperate to drink ayahuasca — I had been for several months, in fact — and the formality of an assignment would help me out at home. Instead, a friend of a friend linked me up with an ayahuasca sangha, a Buddhist word for a spiritual community. I thought of my old friend, Scott, who, many years before, had declined an opportunity to drink ayahuasca.

☆ Wine scammers — Quitting to hike Everest — LA’s most expensive apartment
▼ + stars: | 2021-09-17 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This week, we're taking you to Mount Everest, giving you a tour of Los Angeles' most expensive apartment, and showing you how high-end wineries are fighting back against scammers. As some have dove into their passion projects, other die-hard athletes are quitting their jobs to climb Mount Everest or hike the Appalachian Trail. Peter Dazeley/Getty ImagesExperts estimate that about 20% of wine sold worldwide is fake — so high-end wineries are going to great lengths to fend off new-age scammers. See how high-end wineries are fighting back against scammers. We spoke with O'Neill, who took us through her daily routine during fashion week, working 7 a.m. to midnight leading up to her show.

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