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A meaningful life isn’t a checklist you finish by 70, and the research shows what it really rests on

Reach a certain age and the internet fills with checklists promising to certify your life: achieve these seven things by seventy and you have lived meaningfully. The lists are usually well meant, and they tend to point at genuine...

Virginia Beach packed 640,000 tons of garbage into 18-inch layers, capped each one with 6 inches of dirt dredged from the swamp next door,...

Virginia Beach had a problem that most cities solve with geography: nowhere to put its garbage. The city sits on the flat coastal plain of the Chesapeake, with the water table lurking six to eight feet below the surface,...

In 1886 a club of Rockefellers, Morgans and Vanderbilts paid $125,000 for Jekyll Island off Georgia and kept it as a private winter retreat...

In 1904, Munsey’s Magazine surveyed the private playgrounds of America’s rich and awarded Jekyll Island the full crown: the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible club in the world. The judgment was barely an exaggeration. The membership roll...

Georgia appraised Ossabaw Island at $16 million in 1978 and Sandy West sold it to the state for half that, keeping a life estate...

Ossabaw Island sits twenty minutes by boat from Savannah, Georgia, and several decades from everywhere else. It is the state’s third-largest barrier island, 26,000 acres of beach, salt marsh and live-oak forest hung with Spanish moss, roamed by wild...

In 1927 John D. Rockefeller Jr. began buying up Jackson Hole ranchland through a Utah shell company called the Snake River Land Company, and...

The valley floor of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is one of the most photographed landscapes in America: sagebrush flats running to the Snake River, the Teton range erupting behind them with no foothills to soften the view. Nearly all of...

The habits that supposedly keep you from getting rich, and what the evidence says really does

Cultural habits that prevent you from becoming rich is a headline that sells because it flatters a comforting idea: that wealth is mostly a matter of personal discipline, and that anyone not rich must simply have the wrong habits....

Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale

Inspired by Oregon Trail, but minus the dysentery. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian...

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the US legally in...

King County buys land of would-be asphalt plant for public use

The announcement was made by Reagan Dunn at the Fairwood Anniversary Celebration on Saturday. King County has purchased the former proposed asphalt plant site along the Cedar River and will preserve it for public use. At the Fairwood 60th Anniversary Celebration...

King County buys land of would-be asphalt plant for public use

The announcement was made by Reagan Dunn at the Fairwood Anniversary Celebration on Saturday. King County has purchased the former proposed asphalt plant site along the Cedar River and will preserve it for public use. At the Fairwood 60th Anniversary Celebration...

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