9 Best Articles in 2021
Elemental
Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful
Elemental
~19 min read · 407 saves · 2020-08-17 · Tara Haelle · Here’s how to pull yourself out of despair and live your life
In Equality
The New York Times
Could a College Degree Save Your Life?
The New York Times
4 min read · 194 saves · 2020-03-06 · It’s not just older Americans dying of “despair.”
The School of Life
Melancholy: the best kind of Despair
The School of Life
4 min read · 160 saves · 2020-05-31 · There are a great many ways of handling the unhappiness that inevitably comes with being human: we may rage or despair, we may scream or lament, we may sulk or cry. But there is perhaps no better way…
Rolling Stone
All-American Despair
Rolling Stone
88 saves · 2019-05-30 · For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers
In Future
HuffPost Green
Generation Screwed
HuffPost Green
20+ min read · 636 saves · From 2017 · Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
Brain Pickings
What It Takes to Grow Up, What It Means to Have Grown
Brain Pickings
2 min read · 26 saves · 2020-02-18 · Maria Popova · A poetic antidote to despair by way of delight.
The Guardian
How to escape the overthinking trap: stop judging yourself
The Guardian
7 min read · 69 saves · From 2017 · The despair from comparing ourselves with others is the original fake news. We need to develop a new relationship with our thoughts
The Atlantic
Laura Ingraham’s Descent Into Despair
The Atlantic
~11 min read · 20 saves · 2020-07-16 · Anne Applebaum · At some point, her Reaganite optimism slowly hardened into something better described as a form of apocalyptic pessimism.
In Culture
Brain Pickings
Terror, Tenderness, and the Art of Buoyancy in Despair: How Ernst Haeckel’s Personal Tragedy Begot His Stunning…
Brain Pickings
8 min read · 70 saves · 2020-03-26 · Maria Popova · A story of transmuting the grief of one life into a celebration of the grandeur of Life.
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The New York Times
Along Russia’s ‘Road of Bones,’ Relics of Suffering and Despair
The New York Times
9 min read · 20 saves · 2020-11-22 · The Kolyma Highway in the Russian Far East once delivered tens of thousands of prisoners to the work camps of Stalin’s gulag. The ruins of that cruel era are still visible today.
In Philosophy
New Statesman
The four thinkers who reinvented philosophy
New Statesman
8 min read · 142 saves · 2020-12-11 · In 1936, writing from exile in Paris, the German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin looked back at the storms of the recent past with clear-eyed despair. Everything had happened so quickly that it was…
The Guardian
Doctors in England despair over disregard for Covid restrictions
The Guardian
2 min read · 10 saves · 2020-12-31 · Helen Pidd · Hospital staff express frustration as they tell of reckless behaviour by some members of the public
Gizmodo
Is Technology Making Me More Depressed?
Gizmodo
5 min read · 10 saves · 2020-12-28 · At what passes for its best, technology would seem equipped to provide a slight relief from tedium/despair, or a semi-efficient if error-prone method of trying to keep in touch with your parents. What…
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Nautilus Magazine
We Don’t Have to Despair
Nautilus Magazine
6 min read · 25 saves · 2020-08-13 · The Twitter feed of Eric Topol, with nearly 300,000 followers, has become one of the go-to places for reliable updates on the COVID-19…
The New York Times
Who Killed the Knapp Family?
The New York Times
~11 min read · 53 saves · 2020-01-09 · Across America, working-class people — including many of our friends — are dying of despair. And we’re still blaming the wrong people.
The New York Times
Destructive Power of Despair
The New York Times
4 min read · 15 saves · 2020-05-31 · Charles M. Blow · The protests are not necessarily about Floyd’s killing in particular, but about the savagery and carnage that his death represents.
Guardian Environment
'I'm profoundly sad, I feel guilty': scientists reveal personal fears about the climate crisis
Guardian Environment
6 min read · 52 saves · 2020-03-07 · Graham Readfearn · Feelings of powerlessness and despair for the future are evident in letters written for a six-year ‘passion project’
The New Yorker
Why Americans Are Dying from Despair
The New Yorker
4 min read · 22 saves · 2020-03-23 · The unfairness of our economy, two economists argue, can be measured not only in dollars but in deaths.
josephg.com
I was wrong. CRDTs are the future
josephg.com
7 min read · 45 saves · 2020-09-26 · I saw Martin Kleppmann’s talk a few weeks ago about CRDTs, and I felt a deep sense of despair. Maybe all the work I’ve been doing for the past decade won’t be part of the future after all, because…
Guardian politics
Boris Johnson faces Tory wrath as party slumps in shock poll
Guardian politics
2 min read · 39 saves · 2020-08-29 · Toby Helm · Party in despair, senior MP says, as Labour draws level in wake of exam chaos and Covid U-turns
The Guardian
Marcus Rashford in 'despair' as MPs reject free school meal plan
The Guardian
3 min read · 25 saves · 2020-10-21 · Footballer and campaigner expresses disappointment as plea for free meals to be extended is voted down
The New York Times
The ‘London Patient,’ Cured of H.I.V., Reveals His Identity
The New York Times
10 min read · 23 saves · 2020-03-09 · Apoorva Mandavilli · Adam Castillejo endured a decade of grueling treatments and moments of despair to become only the second person to be cured of H.I.V. Now, he says, “I want to be an ambassador of hope.”
