Pocket’s Top-Saved Stories of the Week: June 22, 2024

You have to try it.

Concrete is perhaps the most commonly used building material in the world. With a bit of tweaking, it could help to power our homes too.

In the depths of the conspiracy world, Stephanie Kemmerer hated herself and everyone around her. She felt trapped in disinformation — but here's how she finally got out.

This word’s meaning and effect can be radically different.

From the ones you know to a few new tricks. Pleonasm, anyone?

How the under-appreciated art of idleness can transform the world

The medical profession saw nothing wrong with offering a cocaine-laced cola to white, middle-class consumers. Selling it to Black Americans was another matter.

While keeping many household items—like detergents, cleaners, and cosmetics—past their expiration dates isn’t necessarily as risky as eating expired food, it can decrease their effectiveness and potentially cause more problems than they solve.

See how many counties where the monthly payments on median-priced homes would fall to affordable levels.

How failure changed my relationship to work.

The most American city, dating nightmares, and the world’s best pasta sauce.