Some of the stars aligned today, and the stories fit together like the NYT game Connections does; it only makes sense once you see the answer. Today, we bring you a podcast about relationships and vulnerability, a thoughtful look at 100 years of movies, a deep cut on food in college towns, and another comedian talk about Gen X.  Your puzzle awaits!

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The Freakonomics podcast, No Stupid Questions, released an episode about relationships, and one of the hosts, Mike Maughan, talks about an experience at one of his jobs. Maughan had his team watch a specific Ted Talk, the famous Brene Brown Ted Talk on Vulnerability, read a paper or two on the subject matter, and be prepared to discuss it at a meeting. To Maughan's surprise, the team went very deep and fast, and he realized he did not know his team as well as he thought. The experiment was a success, and Maughan's team enjoyed the experience, leading to the discussion with Maughan's co-host Angela Duckworth about relationships.

Vulnerability is a form of honesty, and when we can show people what makes us feel vulnerable, relationships can change. This episode made us think of several situations where an honest sit-down and chat session could improve a relationship. Everything from a workgroup to a sports team, a conversation about vulnerability might help you skip over the part of relationship conversations that start with everything already going wrong. Instead of rehashing the negative, start with the honest vulnerability and see if that gets you to the higher place faster.

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Like a really good book list, Stephanie Zacharek, a Film Critic for Time, has compiled a list of the best movies of the past 100 years. You should print out this list and cross it out each time you watch one of these movies. Think of it as a manual recommendation engine for old movies. In the era of shorts, CGI, and streaming, the original artists and producers who built the movie world have much to teach us. We are not discounting progress and the new way of storytelling but highlighting where it came from. 

Check out the list, and here is a short clip of how Time came up with the list.

Back to school is an August staple in the U.S., and millions of young adults will be heading off to college this month for a big dose of higher education. The Eater's website put together a COMPREHENSIVE list of places to eat at many of the larger college campuses nationwide. Each school highlighted includes a few of the best restaurants in the college town and what they are best known for.

Sprinkled throughout the links and places to eat are other stories about college food, including dorm-room food inventions and mealtime rituals. If you were lucky enough to experience college, The Eater will take you back to the glory days; this is required reading if you are in college now.

Another great standup we found on YouTube takes us back to growing up as Gen X and all the other generations we live with. Here is a great clip from Jason Salmon.

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