New York City may be sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers(architecturaldigest.com)

64 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 60 comments

How Gothic architecture became spooky(architecturaldigest.com)

164 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 99 comments

The emptiness of literature written for the market(noemamag.com)

43 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 45 comments

A Ghost Town of Abandoned Mansions in China(architecturaldigest.com)

35 points by RickJWagner 3 years ago | 41 comments

What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?(theatlantic.com)

123 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 217 comments

The Divorce Colony (2015)(magazine.atavist.com)

52 points by daddy_drank 2 years ago | 32 comments

Live near your friends(headlineshq.substack.com)

387 points by thenobsta 3 years ago | 333 comments

Issue 29 of the Headlines Substack newsletter on mental health trends, arguing that living near your friends is a mental health intervention.

Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a New Job(bloomberg.com)

343 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 652 comments

Bloomberg Work Shift article reporting that Americans are less willing than ever to relocate for a new job; the page showed a bot-check captcha.

Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)(wbur.org)

506 points by neom 3 years ago | 289 comments

A WBUR Here & Now radio segment and article from November 2021 about why making friends as an adult is difficult.

Why are most sofas so bad?(dwell.com)

712 points by jtsnow 2 years ago | 695 comments

Dwell article examining why most modern sofas, especially direct-to-consumer models, are poorly made.

Why don’t more people live close to friends?(annehelen.substack.com)

399 points by sharkweek 3 years ago | 433 comments

Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study essay offering theories on why people don't live closer to their friends despite being happier when they do.

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)

706 points by simula67 2 years ago | 467 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.