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Article ClubArticle ClubArticle Club: Should we all do ayahuasca?This week we’re heading on an ayahuasca retreat with Sarah Miller and her piece, “Pirates of the Ayahuasca" in N+1 magazine. She makes the trek to Peru to drink the trendy hallucinogenic potion which she says, “compels the drinker to vomit, witness their own death, or — my hope — develop a capacity to endure life.” She’s deeply depressed and also deeply funny and boy do we have a lot to talk about. Get your puke/poo buckets cause Ep 10 is coming right up!https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/essays/pirates-of-the-ayahuasca/2025-06-1929 minArticle ClubArticle ClubArticle Club: How do your siblings influence you?Do our siblings have more of an impact on our success than our parents?! This week we’re talking allllll about “The Surprising Ways That Siblings Shape Our Lives,” Susan Dominus’ new piece in NYT that explores patterns in highly successful siblings. Did you know, eldests are more likely to attend an ivy league school and youngests are more likely to play a sport professionally? If you’re “siblinged” you’ve undeniably felt some diffusion and differentiation (maybe without even knowing it!). Come for psychological sibling juice. Stay for the baby pilots blowing up the group chat.Check...2025-06-0429 minArticle ClubArticle ClubArticle Club: Should we all think like Librarians?Move over NYT, this week's article is coming in hot from the Hedgehog Review. In his piece, "The Department of Everything," Stephen Akey, a former librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library in the 80s, takes us into the underbelly of the "Telephone Reference Division" aka the people you called when you had a question aka the Google of yesteryear. He and his team (led by a boss who ruled with a "3 citation per answer" fist) had a strict no-judgement policy and helped everyone from "game show aspirants to police detectives" find the facts. This all got us thinking 1. Will...2025-05-2123 minArticle ClubArticle ClubArticle Club: Why are we working so hard?Working hard feels good. But...why? Shouldn't we conserve energy and take the path of least resistance? This week we're reading, "The Paradox of Hard Work" by Alex Hutchinson. He digs into the psychological theories behind motivation (even some birds like snacks they have to fly further for!) and we tiptoe around our shared, lifelong, do-good-reach-for-the-stars-people-pleasing disease. Read along with the article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/03/effort-paradox-hard-work/682156/2025-05-0730 minArticle ClubArticle ClubArticle Club: Do you need a sugar detox?!This week's article has nerds, gushers, and fruit-by-the-foot dancing in our heads. In her piece, "How My Trip to Quit Sugar Became a Journey Into Hell," Caity Weaver tries to kick a sugar habit by hitting up a fancy sugar detox spa. Spoiler: Things do not go well. Check out the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/magazine/quit-sugar.html2025-04-3029 minArticle ClubArticle ClubArticle Club: Is this the end of seriousness? (lol)Everything’s a meme these days. We react to a never-ending stream of bad news with a 🙄, an “everything is fine” burning cartoon dog and an LOL. In her New Yorker article, Lauren Michele Jackson asks, is this “The End of Seriousness”? Using humor to deflect or deal with hard things is nothing new. But have the interwebs made us numb to seriousness? Read along with the article here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-end-of-seriousnessListen along in all the places and spaces 🎧2025-04-2333 minArticle ClubArticle ClubArticle Club: Is this the antisocial century?Are we turning into anti-social slugs?! Episode 3 is all about loneliness and it’s a doozy. We’re reading Derek Thompson’s article in The Atlantic “The Antisocial Century.” Did you know that scientists consider the feeling of loneliness a biological signal that lets us know it’s time to fill up our social tank? Enter phones that make us *feel* connected when we’re still very much alone and you've got a perfect antisocial storm. We’re talking about over-correcting with “me” time, the disappearance of social spaces, and (naturally) Martha Stewart.2025-04-1639 minArticle ClubArticle ClubArticle Club: Is this an antisocial century?!Are we turning into anti-social slugs?! Episode 3 is all about loneliness and it’s a doozy. We’re reading Derek Thompson’s article from The Atlantic, “The Antisocial Century.”Did you know that scientists consider the feeling of loneliness a biological signal that lets us know it’s time to fill up our social tank? Enter phones that make us *feel* connected when we’re still very much alone. We’re talking about over-correcting with the “me” time, the disappearance of social spaces, and (naturally) Martha Stewart.2025-04-1633 minArticle ClubArticle ClubArticle Club: Why do we *actually* sleep?This week we were pretty flabbergasted to learn that we don't *actually* know why humans sleep. Sure, scientists get that it helps us rest and repair our bodies but they are majorly in the dark about what drives our brains (or jellyfish brains, yes! they sleep!) to get those Zzzzzs. In Veronique Greenwood's piece in The Atlantic, Why Do We Need To Sleep?, she makes a trip to a fancy new sleep lab in Japan where they're trying to tease out everything from sleep pressure to brain scrubbers. We dig into it all (and whether or not you should...2025-04-0933 minArticle ClubArticle ClubArticle Club: Does anyone really know you?This week on Article Club we ask the very light, very nbd question: “Does anyone really know you?” Joshua Rothman’s article in the New Yorker (check it out here) digs into the layers of identity and how we see ourselves and others. Will anyone ever understand us completely? Is that ok? We talk about how being unknown––aka anonymous at weddings or on first dates––can be pretty powerful orrrr lead to an itty bitty white lie habit. Here's an extra handy link to the New Yorker article we discuss: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/ope...2025-04-0240 minArticle ClubArticle ClubComing soon: Article Club!Tis true. Yet another podcast. Why, you ask? TBH we’re feeling pretty overwhelmed by everything going on out there, we miss going to a physical place to spend time together, and we like to learn and talk about things other than tornados and tariffs. Not everyone has a pal like Allison who seems to ALWAYS have *the* zeitgeisty article of our time (or week) at the ready. In a scrolly world, she’s my (Carly, hi) personal curator of what to go deeper with –– a cultural barometer if you will. One day it struck me (very eureka) t...2025-03-2600 min