A good piece of salmon doesn’t need much to taste delicious. In fact, it’s often one of the few fish that self-proclaimed seafood haters will eat. That’s likely thanks to its mild flavor and buttery ...

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Usually, friction requires two surfaces rubbing against each other. But researchers have now demonstrated that friction can also arise in the quantum realm without any physical contact at all. When ...

That was the title of a recent Substack essay by Jeff Giesea, and it captured something many of us already feel but rarely say out loud. His argument is simple: To preserve what matters, we have to ...

“Make life harder” is a strange rallying cry. Yet in January, journalist Kathryn Jezer-Morton at the Cut went viral for touting friction-maxxing. “Stop using ChatGPT completely,” she wrote. “No, it ...

Thanks to modern technology, drafting an email, ordering a meal or looking up that random actor’s name you can’t remember has never been easier. But some are starting to wonder whether the quicker, ...

Earlier this year, columnist and sociologist Kathryn Jezer-Morton coined the term "friction-maxxing." It was her attempt to describe the importance of doing hard things in order to reclaim our ...

Source: Walther. ChatGTP. 2026 Once upon a time there was a story people liked to tell about the future that went something like this: When technology will be good enough, life will become ...

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that arises without any mechanical contact, driven purely by collective magnetic ...

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New CPSC recalls cover Amazon baby bath seats and dressers, Giant LED bike lock keys, and Avengers medals. See what you own and how to get refunds. The Chicago Marathon starts under a yellow flag with ...

In a meta-analysis of 51 randomized controlled trials, lowering systolic blood pressure (BP) was linked to similar reductions in the risk for major cardiovascular events in people with and without ...