The (Web) Edit

Our must read stories from across the web this week.

Author:: The Fold Team
Publish date:: Apr 6, 2018

Image Credit: Ladders

"I know myself better than anyone else. I don’t let anyone else’s opinions control what I do, what I wear, or what I say. Other people’s opinions are suggestions—take them or leave them." What 50-year-olds know that 20-year-olds often don’t (Ladders)

"It’s baffling that Gervais can have so much reverence for physical evolution and so little for intellectual evolution. He might find trans people silly, but you know who doesn’t? Teenagers." The World Is Evolving and Ricky Gervais Isn’t (The New York Times)

"Hughes’s films play constantly on television and are even taught in schools. There is still so much that I love in them, but lately I have felt the need to examine the role that these movies have played in our cultural life: where they came from, and what they might mean now." What About “The Breakfast Club”? (The New Yorker)

"I’m not sure it’s possible to justify my liaisons with married men, but what I learned from having them warrants discussion." What Sleeping With Married Men Taught Me About Infidelity (The New York Times)

"Unruly Bodies is a month-long magazine exploring our ever-changing relationship with our bodies — the emotional, the psychological, the cultural, and the scientific" Unruly Bodies series (Medium)

The Fold editors share the items they plan to gift and hope to get this holiday season. Check out this eclectic list of art, experiences, reading options and charitable ideas that are both thoughtful and unique.

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Smart design meets science in this Co-Founder's cutting-edge company that will powerfully alter your understanding (or, er, lack thereof) of your microbiome, plus your overall health and the health of the planet.

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A few thoughts from around the web this week on our radar.

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There is a title for every literary fan out there: spirited novels, cookbooks and fantastic stories in children's literature are just some of the genres comprising our holiday gift list. Read on to find the perfect book for the reader in your life or, better yet, yourself.

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Contributor and musician Shelby Earle talks with Carrie Akre about career transitions, assumptions about motherhood in a male dominated industry, her 10 year hiatus making music and the thing that is bringing her back to the limelight.

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Amidst all of the joy and feelings of gratitude we experience around the holidays, it's inevitable that a little bit of stress finds its way into our lives between family dinners and stuffed shopping centers. We have compiled a list of exercises to boost our resilience to holiday stress, identify what is truly important and manifest those feelings of warmth we crave all winter.

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Our zodiac tarot card reading this month sheds light on what the beginning of winter has in store for each sign. Find out exactly which card your sign pulled this December, and head into the holidays with confidence and direction.

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For a lot of women, it can often feel as though stories about women in their 40s are few and far between. In her latest novel, No One Tells You This, author Glynnis MacNicol discusses the particularly difficult year in which she turned 40 and the self reflection that allowed her to realize being 40 is, actually, amazing.