Julie Beck

Nov 13, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Julie Beck

One month to the day before the 2024 presidential election, The New York Times reported on a new analysis of how Americans spend their time. More and more of the average American’s day is being spent at home: one hour and 39 minutes more in 2022 than in 2003. For each extra hour at home, a bit of it was spent with family—7.4 minutes. More of it, 21 minutes, was spent alone. Obviously, because of the coronavirus pandemic, time at home spiked in 2020.

Oct 29, 2024 | markets.financialcontent.com | Julie Beck

Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- – SPEE3D, a leading metal additive manufacturing company, announced that Austal USA Advanced Technologies (Austal USA AT) has purchased a WarpSPEE3D printer to further its additive manufacturing application development efforts.

Sep 21, 2024 | freakonomics.com | Trevor Noah |Julie Beck |Angela Duckworth |Mike Maughan

Episode Transcript MAUGHAN: I’m just thinking about, like, elephants being teenagers and getting in trouble and testing the rules. *      *      *DUCKWORTH: I’m Angela Duckworth. MAUGHAN: I’m Mike Maughan. DUCKWORTH + MAUGHAN: And you’re listening to No Stupid Questions. Today on the show: what does it mean to be an adult? MAUGHAN: I called home maybe 12 times, because I was so homesick.

Apr 6, 2024 | freakonomics.com | Istvan Banyai |J. M. Barrie |Julie Beck |Angela Duckworth

Episode Transcript MAUGHAN:  Okay, weirdo. *      *      *DUCKWORTH: I’m Angela Duckworth. MAUGHAN: I’m Mike Maughan. DUCKWORTH + MAUGHAN: And you’re listening to No Stupid Questions. Today on the show: what’s the point of nostalgia? MAUGHAN: Who’s this man flying around in green tights? DUCKWORTH: Hi, I’m Peter Pan. *      *      *MAUGHAN: Angela, today our question comes from listener Mike Hole.

Apr 1, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Julie Beck

If you listen to the experts, much of the place I’m from is not a place at all. Suburban Michigan is full of winding roads dotted with identical houses, strip malls stuffed with chain restaurants and big-box stores, and thoroughfares designed for cars, with pedestrian walkways as an afterthought. The anthropologist Marc Augé coined the term non-places to describe interchangeable, impersonal spaces lacking in history and culture that people pass through quickly and anonymously.