Your Post-Vacation Guide to Cleaning Up Your Finances

Forget January; September is the best time of year to make new resolutions. It has the same clean-slate feeling of the new year but without the depressing, sober quality of midwinter. It’s full of promise and clarity and action; it’s time to get your shit together. In France, where it’s normal to spend all of August en vacances, the beginning of September is known as la rentrée: a point of reentry where you take stock and organize yourself for the year ahead.

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See the best bird photography of the year. Then watch Al Gore’s new TED Talk, What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know, and think about the future of those birds and the rest of the planet. Feeling masochistic? There’s also this excerpt on amphibians endangered by automobiles. In other news, Rolling Stone published a letdown of an “expose” on The Tonight Show. There’s a teaser for Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature in a decade, The Boy and the Heron. And if you haven’t had your fill of Burning Man Schadenfreude, there’s this.

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