Staff writer @NewYorker since '08, Born and raised in lovely New York, Big time animal lover, Vegan life
Joined January 2013
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Ariel Levy retweeted
6 Aug 2022
“I really don’t have words,” Mackenzie Fierceton wrote to a mentor at the University of Pennsylvania. “It is seven years later, and I am still having to prove and prove and prove what has happened to me.”
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Ariel Levy retweeted
6 Aug 2022
How a scientist working on one of the world’s most accurate clocks discovered a new way to detect earthquakes. nyer.cm/UYMnWum
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Ariel Levy retweeted
5 Aug 2022
Oliver Sacks’s self-experiments with LSD, in the 1960s: “Neurochemistry was plainly ‘in,’ and so—dangerously, seductively, especially in California, where I was studying—were the drugs themselves,” he wrote. nyer.cm/TMWzg5p
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Ariel Levy retweeted
5 Aug 2022
From 2000: “The dreams and the fears into which Martha Stewart taps are not of ‘feminine’ domesticity but of female power,” Joan Didion writes, “of the woman who sits down at the table with the men and, still in her apron, walks away with the chips.”
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26 Jun 2022
Too soon Wall Street, too soon.
26 Jun 2022
Who gets access to your text messages, photos and social-media profile after you die? You can—and should—name your digital heirs before it’s too late. on.wsj.com/3xXi3Nb
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Ariel Levy retweeted
26 Jun 2022
NEW: Ken Griffin spent $50 million to nominate a moderate Republican for Illinois governor. But the MAGA base and Gov JB Pritzker had other ideas.
Now Griffin is leaving the state and not helping any other R candidates in the general.
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26 Jun 2022
I find I am more focused as I write into the late hours of the night. Not to mention how peaceful it is.
26 Jun 2022
Recent studies in humans and mice have shown that late nights and early mornings may cause long lasting damage to your brain and increase the risk of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. nyti.ms/39RtPAK
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Ariel Levy retweeted
26 Jun 2022
A new set of investors has entered the Spanish-language media field, creating excitement in progressive circles. nyer.cm/VIJCKC6
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Ariel Levy retweeted
26 Jun 2022
“The historical analysis employed by the Court to make decisions about the constitutionality of laws concerning everything from guns to abortion relies on a fundamentally anti-democratic historical record,” Jill Lepore writes. nyer.cm/KIS2uaz
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Ariel Levy retweeted
23 Jun 2022
In the 1970s, carob infiltrated food co-ops and baking books as if it had been sent on a mission to alienate the left’s next generation. nyer.cm/nDO9BUW
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Ariel Levy retweeted
20 Jun 2022
“Ron’s strength as a politician is that he doesn’t give a fuck,” a Republican consultant said, of the Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “Ron’s weakness as a politician is that he doesn’t give a fuck.” nyer.cm/vCRkKeQ
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Ariel Levy retweeted
20 Jun 2022
Congrats on the baby! The first year is so tough, but it gets easier. Until they hit the terrible twos. nyer.cm/qMBgYfc
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Ariel Levy retweeted
19 Jun 2022
Researchers began studying ketamine as a treatment for depression, and, in 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health concluded that a single intravenous dose of ketamine had rapid antidepressant effects.
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Ariel Levy retweeted
16 Jun 2022
The parenting guru Janet Lansbury urges people to be a “stable base” for children to leave and return to—an idea that many modern parents find intensely difficult to apply. nyer.cm/IopPWou
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Ariel Levy retweeted
14 Jun 2022
“The ultimate appeal of operagoing in Germany is to see a venerable art form experiencing continuous rebirth.” @alexrossmusic tours the celebrated opera companies in Germany, which are supported by the state.
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Ariel Levy retweeted
14 Jun 2022
“Man, do I have stories to tell,” James Patterson writes in his new autobiography. But these stories—a cavalcade of mostly trivial tales—come across as a screen he hides behind, @magiciansbook writes. nyer.cm/F7hjcUu
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Ariel Levy retweeted
14 Jun 2022
Across centuries, land that was collectively worked by the landless was claimed, and the age of private property was born. “We can learn from the time before enclosure, but we can’t go back there,” Eula Biss writes. nyer.cm/WIe4dfl
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Ariel Levy retweeted
13 Jun 2022
“Running Up That Hill” is Kate Bush’s first American Top 10, a feat that comes 37 years after the song’s release. “This type of fresh exposure often does little to shore up an artist’s legacy in our shrinking memories,” @cbattan writes. nyer.cm/G6N7VUI
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