The Best Time to Eat Breakfast? It’s Not Right When You Wake Up

The Best Time to Eat Breakfast? You’ve already got some energy in the system.”

The problem with traditional, carb-heavy breakfast foods, like cereal, toast and pastries, is that they give you “a lovely glucose spike that fuels your cells, and then you have a corresponding crash,” says Aujla. “You’re hungry [again] by mid-morning, and need coffee and other stimulants to keep yourself focused and up and running until lunchtime.” Instead, he recommends a meal high in protein and fiber—partly because we often generally skimp on protein, which we need for “longevity,” and partly because protein and fiber keep us energetic and satiated through the morning.

Aujla has a few go-to breakfasts along these lines. During the week, he relies on overnight oats that go easy on the actual oats. “I have two tablespoons of oats, two tablespoons of milled flax seed, one tablespoon of chia and one tablespoon of hemp seeds,” he says. “Then I’ll add grated apple, some pumpkin seeds, a bit of protein powder, and then water or coconut milk or whatever. Read more about it here.

Two-way contracts in college basketball? One mid-major coach’s bold idea to adapt to transfer portal chaos By Matt Norlander Apr 23, 2025 at 3:15 pm ET • 5 min read Getty Images

The transfer portal deadline hit at midnight ET Wednesday, ending the liveliest and most congested transfer cycle in college basketball history. In an effort to be creative in the ever-changing landscape of college sports, Killings is trying to improve his team while also using a moneyball-type approach to bring a little more stability to power-conference programs, in addition to his own.

Developing players to return to power-conference teams

Here’s the idea: Many high-major schools wind up with players that, for whatever reasons, aren’t prepared to play at that level when they get there. (Sometimes, the player and the coaching staff only realize this after the fact.) Instead of sticking around for four years to develop, most of these players now leave after one season if things don’t go the way they hoped. 

The self-aware guys who bounce typically transfer down to a level much more suited to their skill sets. Well, instead of doing what many other coaches have been doing — contributing to therapy-session text chains daily or making grousing phone calls to fellow coaches for the past month — Albany coach Dwayne Killings has been brainstorming one potential workaround: two-way contracts.

Well, sort of. 

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Similar to two-way deals in the pros, with players fluctuating between G League and NBA rosters, Killings wants to turn his America East program into a developmental system for high-majors. Read more about it here.

Wrangler’s $50 Jeans Are the Best in the Butt Business Style

Wrangler’s $50 Jeans Are the Best in the Butt Business

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By Alexander Aciman

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Picture this: Don Draper stands at the head of a boardroom amid a cloud of cigar smoke. Because whatever you may think of the fit, or the comfort, or the decidedly and unapologetically straight-leggedness of Wrangler’s flagship pants, one thing is undeniable: They flatter the very anatomical feature that men’s jeans have spent decades trying to hide.

The Wrangler brand found its way into the wardrobes of many of the 20th century’s greatest icons, from Martin Luther King Jr. and Paul Newman to Freddie Mercury and John Lennon. He waits in silence for a moment, scans the room, and finally he speaks.

“Wrangler butts,” he says. “They drive you nuts.”

Or at least this is how I imagine the original pitch went for Wrangler’s Cowboy Cut Jeans when they were first introduced, in 1947. Read more about it here.

What We Lose When We’re Priced Out of Our Hobbies Family

What We Lose When We’re Priced Out of Our Hobbies

For a lot of people, it’s getting too expensive to knit or fish.

By Tyler Austin HarperIllustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. I was 12 years old, at a local gun club, where my mother had driven me so I could try my hand at “sporting clays.” Meant to simulate hunting, the sport takes place in forests and fields and involves walking from one station to another to shoot—imagine golf, but with guns. Listen to more stories on the Noa app.

The first time I shot a clay pigeon, it disappeared. Read more about it here.

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Nearly every Patagonia employee in Ventura received an email from me between 2006—2010. Their ethos of environmental stewardship and sustainability was unlike any other business I’d heard of, and they’ve stayed true to that goodness.

My first response came from the wonderful Michelle Rozo, art director for apparel graphics, about two months after I graduated. I had a little more work to show by then and she asked me to sketch a few kids’ graphics and a logo tee.

Ahem… at that time I didn’t know ‘logo tee’ meant riffing on their iconic Fitz Roy peaks in some fresh and stylized way. Read more about it here.

Scamming Pizza Hut Was My Family Tradition

Scamming Pizza Hut Was My Family Tradition

The chain's BOOK IT! program was a frugal, voracious reader's ticket to treat town.

By Kim Kelly Kim Kelly

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Expertise: labor, politics, tea, whiskey.

Experience: Kim Kelly has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing has been featured in the New Republic, the Washington Post, the Baffler, the Nation, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among many others. Kim has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union, the Real News Network, and Means TV. Read more about it here.

Inside the Long, Strange Trip of the World’s Best LSD

It was the namesake of Augustus Owsley Stanley III, as eccentric a figure as has ever proweled the American underground. Wiry, furry, and proudly carnivorous, he also answered to “Bear.” He was ostensibly known for his work as an audio engineer, having designed sound systems for the Grateful Dead. (He also designed the band’s iconic skull-bisected-by-a-lightning-bolt logo, and inspired the Dead’s just-as-ionic “dancing bear” mascots.) Equally crucial to the band’s creative output was Owsley’s work as a chemist, leading a piebald crew of flower children who cranked out some 5 million doses of LSD into the world, turning on everyone from Jimi Hendrix to John Lennon. Even the reports of the Orinda bust doubled as both a coronation and premature abdication. “Stanley is known throughout the west,” one paper reported, making him sound like some neurochemistry cowboy, “as the King of Acid.” The bust was followed by months of prolonged legal rigmarole. Read more about it here.

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Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit

Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.

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Elena and her husband had plans for their retirement. They wanted to move to Wyoming; to meet new people, volunteer, hike the snowy, perfect Tetons. Read more about it here.

How a ‘Beginners’ Mindset’ Can Help You Learn Anything

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Tom Vanderbilt’s fascination with the process of life-long learning began with his daughter’s hobbies: piano, soccer, Tae Kwon Do. At no point did he hope to fully master the abilities or to show off his prowess with an extraordinary feat, such as winning American Idol. 

“As adults, we instantly put pressure on ourselves with goals,” he says. “We feel like we don’t have the luxury to engage in learning for learning’s sake.” Instead, he wanted to revel in the pleasure of the process. 

Vanderbilt details his journey in his January 2021 book Beginners, which combines his own personal revelations with the cutting-edge science of skill acquisition. As she exercised her mind, he would answer emails, play with his phone or stare into space until his daughter had finished. 

He soon recognised the hypocrisy of the situation. “I was impressing upon her the importance of having a broad education in all these different skills,” he says. “But she might have easily asked me, ‘Well, why don’t you do all these things then?’”  

Starting with chess lessons, he decided to spend a year pursuing a range of new skills himself. Read more about it here.

The Airlines Keeping First Class Alive Air France

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Eventually, 19 of its Boeing 777-300ERs will be fitted with the luxurious product.

Lufthansa’s new Allegris First Class leans heavily on privacy and, as the airline’s Chief Customer Officer Heiko Reitz put it, “individuality.” Everything about the new suites from seat position to temperature and airflow are at the passenger’s finger tips.

“We wanted to create a retreat above the clouds,” Reitz said at a recent preview of the product. “This setting is not a seat, this setting here is a living room — an area where you feel comfortable, where you feel cozy.”

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Long-haul first class with a glass of Champagne in hand is the slowly dying dream of many travelers, with carriers like American Airlines, Qatar Airways and United Airlines sounding the death knell for international top-tier experiences on their planes.

Always looking to maximize profits, such airlines have come to believe that improved business class seats are the way forward, rendering the posh, private echelons at the pointy end of the plane redundant.

International “first class will not exist … at American Airlines for the simple reason that our customers aren’t buying it,” American’s former Chief Revenue Officer Vasu Raja told CNN in 2022.

Not everyone agrees. Read more about it here.