Pocket-Worthy Reads

Stories to fuel your mind
The Atlantic

Why Do We Need to Sleep?

At a lab in Japan, an international team of scientists is trying to figure out what puts us under.

Popular Collections

Curated guides to the best reads on the web

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Saturday, August 16
NPR

Recommendation: New Books Published This Week

A portrait of the lucrative drug-treatment industry; a memoir of a female firefighter; debut fiction from an Emmy-winning TV writer; and a brand new Karin Slaughter thriller.

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Outside

Exploring Tennessee’s Top Lakes

The state’s most famed fishing legend partners with its most beloved lakes to protect and improve premier destinations for angling adventures

Bleacher Report

Ranking the Best Sports Video Games of All Time

The latest edition of the iconic Madden video game franchise, EA Sports’ Madden NFL 26, came out on Thursday. In honor of that, we’ve decided to rank the best sports video games of all time.

Life Hacks

Tips for better living
The Marginalian

Wonder, Play, and How to Be More Alive

We build our lives around structures of certainty — houses to live in, marriages to love in, ideologies to think in — and yet some primal part of us knows that none abides, knows that we pay for these comforting illusions with our very aliveness.