Not long after my wife and I bought a farm in the Virginia countryside, we decided to stream a movie with our kids. This was a perilous undertaking.
With internet download speeds of no more than 15 megabits per second in our home — compared with speeds of 100 or even 1,000 mbps in the city — the internet sputtered and stalled, even on a good day. And this was not a good day. Read More...
Amanda Ripley is the author of “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped — and How We Get Out” and host of the Slate podcast “How To!”
I have a secret. I kept it hidden for longer than I care to admit. It felt unprofessional, vaguely shameful. It wasn’t who I wanted to be.
But here it is: I’ve been actively avoiding the news for years.
It wasn’t always this way. I’ve been a journalist for two decades, and I used to spend hours consuming the news and calling it “work. Read More...
He was a child prodigy, the sports reporting equivalent of Macaulay Culkin or Danny Bonaduce, growing up before our eyes and ears. His career break came as a third grader, when he so wowed an uncle, Pittsburgh sports-talk host Scott Paulsen, that the elder Paulsen decided to show his little nephew off to a Western Pennsylvania radio audience.
The local paper back home in Virginia’s King George County found out about the local kid doing Pittsburgh broadcasts, and offered the youngster a chance to write up his views on the sports issues of the day. Read More...