Julie Beck

3 days ago | theatlantic.com | Julie Beck

You know that moment when a man who wants something thinks he sees an opportunity to charm an easy mark? A common version is specific to mothers, and it goes like this: A mom and her kid are out somewhere together, and they meet a guy. It doesn’t really matter who. He may be a service worker looking for tips, an acquaintance of the child looking to get in good with the mom, or a garden-variety slimeball. What matters is that he’s meeting this woman for the first time.

6 days ago | theatlantic.com | Julie Beck

Scarcely a week goes by that Katie’s 9- and 6-year-old daughters don’t wear a costume to their school in the Dallas suburbs. For the “Neon Party,” they wore white T-shirts and the school turned on black lights at lunchtime. For “Adjective Day,” when the kids had to wear something, anything, that they could describe with adjectives, Katie’s youngest put on a Little Mermaid outfit: scaly, wet, shiny, glittery, beautiful.

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.