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Amanda Tarlton Reviewed.comPublished 10:19 AM EDT Jun 8, 2020— Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. These are stressful, uncertain times live in, as the world grapples with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and thousands of Americans protest police brutality after…

The NBA's Board of Governors has approved a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Florida, another major step toward getting teams back onto the court and playing games again. The format calls for each team playing eight games to determine…

Since mid-March, I have received endless letters from companies and funds I’m an investor in with their thoughts on the Covid crisis. One of the best was from Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin of SK Ventures (one of our Partner Fund investments). Paul and Eric have given me permission to…

Photo: Victoria Song (Gizmodo)I’ve always wanted a cool home theater setup, but two things have held me back. First, I rarely have several hundreds of dollars lying around. Second, for most of my adult life, I have shuffled from one teeny tiny apartment to the next—I’m not trying to pile…

Do you have a piece of pumice on a string in your shower? Do you know where it actually came from? When an underwater volcano spurts molten rock, the lava rushing out into the water column quickly cools, fills with gas, hardens and rises to the surface. This bubble-filled rock…

The legendary coach of the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls, Phil Jackson, would choose a theme for every basketball season, perhaps to help the team focus on particular efforts or nuances for each unique composition of players and challenges. The behaviors, actions, and messages from coaches create enduring impressions on their…

The legendary coach of the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls, Phil Jackson, would choose a theme for every basketball season, perhaps to help the team focus on particular efforts or nuances for each unique composition of players and challenges. The behaviors, actions, and messages from coaches create enduring impressions on their…

Even in the Chelsea spotlit by the virus, hers is a precarious perch. Veronica, 22, fled El Salvador with two young siblings when she was 18, after her mother was murdered and the rest of her family feared gangs would take their lives, too. Trauma piled on trauma, and in…

5 Economic Resets; How Life Prepared Me For The Pandemic Propy, Inc. What I learned before helps me now. In the beginning of the 2020 lockdown, venture capitalist Bill Gurley tweeted, “I am living through my third “reset” in Silicon Valley. Reputations are built in hard times, not the easy…

Mouth-to-mouth only happens in the movies. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by rehmno/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Coronavirus Diaries is a series of dispatches exploring how the coronavirus is affecting people’s lives. For the latest public health information, please refer to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. For Slate’s coronavirus…