Carey Dunne
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New York, NY, United States
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Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens only worked four hours a day—and you should too
An underlying assumption driving today’s pervasive cult of productivity is that the more hours you work, the more you get done. This seems like a logical enough formula, but it is also leading to an epidemic of job-induced stress and burnout. Regardless, being perpetually “busy” has become a 21st-century status symbol; the option to work... → Read More
Ten easy encryption tips for warding off hackers, the US government—and Russia
On a frigid Saturday, pink and yellow Post-It notes scrawled with concerns about cybersecurity covered a wall of Eyebeam, a nonprofit art and technology center in Brooklyn. “Identity theft + surveillance = paranoia, plz help,” read one note. “How much of a threat do alt-right hackers pose on social media?” read another. “If you know... → Read More
Millennials took Adderall to get through school. Now they’ve taken their addiction to the workplace
In 2010, when Raphael was a first-semester college freshman struggling to get through finals, he did what it seemed like all his friends were doing: he got an Adderall from a fellow student and holed up in the library. It was the first time he’d tried the stimulant—a mixture of amphetamine salts often prescribed for... → Read More
How a pro-choice movement in Ireland is changing the way women campaign for their reproductive rights
When Fia Kavanagh was 17, about to graduate from school in a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, she discovered that she was pregnant. Her college entrance exams were two weeks away, and she had just broken up with her boyfriend of several years. “I knew I couldn’t give a child the life I’d want it to... → Read More
How To Shop Like A Dane
Or, what happened when I try to buy all my Christmas presents in a wonderland of cheap Danish design. → Read More
Meet New York City’s High-Rise Window Washers
If you live or work in Manhattan, chances are you see them daily, specks of humans with squeegees and suds buckets dangling → Read More
Weird Subway Interactions, Ranked
At least once a week while riding the subway in New York City, I witness something strange enough to make → Read More
Meet the Lady Taxidermy Artists of Brooklyn
A rhinestone-bedazzled piglet, a baby chick dressed up as Pikachu, a pair of bear cubs with human faces: This is a random → Read More
Catcallers Turn Into Zombies in This Anti-Street Harassment Mural
You’re walking down the street, minding your own business, when a hungry-looking man jeers and lurches towards you: Is he a → Read More
What's Your Subway Station Number? Find Out With This Interactive Map
How legit is your New Yorker status? This interactive map by digital designer Mike Solomon over at The Cleverest will settle the score. → Read More
5 Brooklyn Castles You Didn't Realize Were Castles
Local LARPers, rejoice: Curbed has put together a comprehensive guide to New York City’s many castles (or, at least, buildings that look a → Read More
With Fat Suits and Psychics, a Photographer Acts Out His Own Sad Fates
After photographer Phil Toledano’s parents died several years ago, he found himself wracked with anxiety about all the horrible, unexpected turns his → Read More
The Weirdest Sign in Downtown Brooklyn: An Investigation
The Beavis and Butt-heads living within me are obsessed with this sign on Jay Street in which a grinning Dr. → Read More
A Guide to the Greenest Blocks in Brooklyn
Summer in the city usually smells like hot garbage. But there are a few blocks in Brooklyn that manage to → Read More
Brooklyn’s Leading Psychonaut on Hallucinogens, Therapy, and “Glowing Orb Mounds”
When Brooklyn-based psychotherapist Dr. Neal Goldsmith was 40, a midlife crisis of sorts inspired him to take LSD for the → Read More
Are You a Gentrifier? This Calculator Will Tell You
Death knells for Brooklyn, inspired by skyrocketing rents, Starbucks and Apple Stores replacing family businesses, and the artisanal-ization of everything–AKA gentrification–are → Read More
A Harry Potter Freak Sorts Brooklyn Neighborhoods into Hogwarts Houses
This Saturday, hundreds of berobed, wand-wielding Harry Potter freaks will emerge from their fan fiction writing caves and descend upon the Bell House for PotterCon, Brooklyn’s one and only Harry Potter convention. Spells will be cast, Butterbeer will be served, costumes will be judged, and Pottheads will be sorted into Hogwarts Houses in a live … → Read More
The Artful Doorways of New York City, in Photos
Smooth, rectangular, and with a built-in frame, a doorway is a street artist’s perfect canvas. In his photo series Doorway Galleries, artist Adel → Read More
The Changing Face of Crown Heights, in Pictures
There’s no shortage of discussion about gentrification in Crown Heights. It seems every week brings a new twee little coffee shop (if → Read More
Amy Winehouse's Manager Nick Shymansky: "The 27 Club Needs to Disappear"
When Nick Shymansky was 19, he met a 16-year-old Amy Winehouse at a pub in North London. He was struggling to get a foothold in the music industry; she’d dropped out of high school to write songs. The two connected over a shared love of jazz and their Jewishness, which is rare in London. After … → Read More