Prosperity, Reading, Silence, Voice, Beer - Five Things - Issue #304

Our well-being is local and relative — if you live in a struggling area and your status is slipping, even if you are relatively comfortable, you are probably at least a bit miserable.

When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty.

After years of escaping into music, writer Mark Richardson finds out what it feels like to hear no sound at all.

Google, Apple, and others are catching up—and pulling speaker owners evermore tightly into their ecosystems.

I still remember the days when we just drank beer.

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