Poisoned Generation

Wondering What Happened to Your Class Valedictorian? Not Much, Research Shows Eric Barker, Time School has clear rules. Life often doesn’t. When there’s no clear path to follow, academic high achievers break down. Shawn Achor’s research at Harvard shows that college grades aren’t any more predictive of subsequent life success than rolling dice. A study of over seven hundred American millionaires showed their average college GPA was 2.9. Save to Pocket

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A Relationship Expert Says One Word Can Defuse a Fight With Your Partner — but Most People Don’t Use It Enough Shana Lebowitz, Business Insider Being in a long-term relationship means that your partner gets to know you really well — which is a perfectly double-edged sword. Save to Pocket

At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared Laura Sydell, NPR While the uses of recorded sound seem obvious now — music, news, voice messages — none of it was obvious to Scott or Edison when they made the first recordings. It’s a story that has some lessons for today’s aspiring inventors. Save to Pocket

Want Your Best Employees to Never Leave You? Ask Them 5 Simple Questions Marcel Schwantes, Inc. Most importantly, leaders should be asking these questions before their best people mentally and emotionally check out. Save to Pocket

The Poisoned Generation Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic The story of a decades-long lead-poisoning lawsuit in New Orleans illustrates how the toxin destroys black families and communities alike. Save to Pocket

Clarence Thomas Joins Liberals, Shocks World Mark Joseph Stern, Slate A strange Supreme Court alliance just struck a blow against racial gerrymandering in the United States. Save to Pocket

In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs Maria Popova, Brain Pickings “The garden of life is strewn with such dormant seeds and so much of art blossoms from their unwilled and unwillable awakenings.” Save to Pocket

Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’ Trip Gabriel, The New York Times President Trump ignited a national discussion of blue-collar jobs. Truck driving, once a road to the middle class, is now low-paying, grinding, unhealthy work. We talked with drivers about why they do it. Save to Pocket

The Advantage of Being A Little Underemployed Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund The biggest employment change of the last century is the number of careers that shifted from physically exhausting to mentally exhausting. From doing stuff with your arms to doing stuff with your head. Save to Pocket