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What happens when the most desperate moment is interrupted Back when we used to run together on weekends, Malcolm Gladwell shared with me a study about suicide that I found both surprising and important. I recently shared it with a friend who was struggling, and she found it valuable and shared it widely in turn. And now I want to share it with you, so that you can pass it along should the need ever arise. The study, published in 1978, is titled: “Where Are They Now?

I’ve got news: Rangenow comes with supplementary tools meant to reinforce the lessons and prompt readers to think about practical takeaways. (Info below on how to get a free copy.) Itwas chosen as one of 20 books for the launch of Google’s Gemini Notebook Expert Intelligence program. The other 19 include books by acquaintances, friends, and authors I admire, like Daniel Pink, Charles Duhigg, Katy Milkman, Daniel Coyle, Nicholas Thompson, and Annie Duke.

Do mass shootings kill people who aren’t involved in the shooting? That provocative question is addressed in a new paper by a group of doctors and scientists.1 And the answer, it seems: yes, they do. The researchers looked at traffic deaths on the day after the 10 deadliest mass shootings in the U.S. between 2008 and 2023, and saw that, compared to the previous 10 days, there were about 20 more road deaths than expected nationwide, per shooting. Why would that be?

On June 16, in Raleigh, North Carolina, 39-year-old Jenny Simpson collapsed and went into cardiac arrest moments after pacing a group of eighth-grade girls in a community mile. It was especially surprising that Simpson would collapse during a community running event, because she is arguably the greatest female miler in American history.

I’m a Christopher Nolan fan — Interstellar is one of my favorite films. Having minored in astronomy in college, I thought the scenes involving time dilation inside a gravitational field were brilliant (i.e., how time passes differently for observers depending on the gravity of their environment). Naturally, I went to see The Odyssey. Below are my favorite and least favorite things about the film — and they’re related.

Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images I’ve been to three Olympics and a Super Bowl. I’ve been present for multiple world records. I once saw a cross-country skier win an Olympic medal with broken ribs and a collapsed lung. But the most surprising thing I’ve ever seen in sports is playing out right now, and you probably haven’t heard about it.

Photo by Stefan Koops/EYE4IMAGES/NurPhoto via Getty Images Lionel Messi has scored in every minute of a soccer match—except for the very first. At the beginning of a game, he’s usually just walking around. He’s looking. As his former coach at FC Barcelona, Pep Guardiola, said: “Right, left, left, right. He smells who is the weak point of the back four.

Since reading his book Steal Like an Artist years ago, I’ve found artist and author Austin Kleon’s work to be both calming and inspiring. He has helped me get out of my own way and engage more wholeheartedly in the act of creation.

Ernest Hemingway had a rule for ending his writing days: he stopped while he still knew exactly what would come next—sometimes, reportedly, in the middle of a sentence. As Hemingway told the Paris Review in 1958: “You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.” I stole this idea, and you should too.

If TIME Magazine had a feeling of the year, a top contender for 2026 would be overwhelmed. It doesn’t matter your age, geography, or gender—everyone is feeling the effects of an increasingly chaotic world. The sheer volume of input is beyond our capacity to manage it. And yet, most people have some semblance of the same goals: We want to live full and textured lives. We want to contribute and be useful. We want to throw ourselves into meaningful projects and pursuits.