Share this Share this... Facebook In the summer of 1994, I was assigned a job that no man had ever done before: to be the first online travelling reporter for MTV.com. My assignment was to go on the Lollapalooza tour, take photographs on the first Apple digital camera, write daily tour journals and…

I can’t believe how jealous I am of Tony Hawk. He is three months younger than me. He was the world champion of skate boarding for 12 years in a row. He’s sold a billion dollars worth of video games. But that’s not why I am jealous of him. Every single day since he was 11 years old, he’s done what…

Britney Spears performing at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, N.Y., in 2000. Credit G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times By and Joe Coscarelli LAS VEGAS — The disturbing images seem so distant now: the pop-star-turned-cautionary tabloid tale — head shorn, face twisted, umbrella gripped like a police…

Pamela Elliott was the new sheriff in town. But instead of law and order, she brought chaos. by Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:29 am CST The first thing she noticed was Sheriff Pamela Elliott standing across the street. It was an August evening in 2014, and Rachel Gallegos had just gotten home for a meeting…

Ausaf Abbas in Alien Kulture, left, before he became an investment banker.Photograph: Alan Powdrill for the Guardian Ausaf Abbas, 55 Then: bass player, Alien Kulture Now: investment banker We very much believed in the philosophy of punk – here’s a chord, here’s a second, here’s a third, now go and…

Jamie Vardy celebrates with Leicester City fans after scoring against West Brom during an April match.Photograph: Tony Marshall/Getty Images O n Sunday morning, at about 11am eastern time, a unglamorous team from the unglamorous East Midlands, which has never won the title in its 132-year history,…

The effectiveness of Julia Cameron’s self-help book “The Artist’s Way” lies in its simple message, which remains relevant even in a world of corporate “creativity.” Photograph by Zoonar GmbH / Alamy In 1989, a director named Julia Cameron débuted her first feature film, “God’s Will,” in Washington,…

Kevin Mazur/WireImage 'Truly, Madly, Deeply: Exploring The Relationship Between Fandom & Mental Health' was originally written for the 2016 EMP Pop Conference , an annual music writing and academia convention in Seattle each April. It was presented on a panel called 'Fandom & The Internet,' a…

Stop what you’re doing. Well, keep reading. Just stop everything else that you’re doing. Mute your music. Turn off your television. Put down your sandwich and ignore that text message. While you’re at it, put your phone away entirely. (Unless you’re reading this on your phone. In which case, don’t.…

The Wharton prof’s new bestseller made him ask: Was he a rule-breaker? By Richard Rys It’s another whirlwind day for Adam Grant as he hustles into his office on the second floor of Steinberg-Dietrich Hall. Backpack over his shoulder, dressed casually in a North Face jacket, blue flannel shirt and…

A Princeton psychology professor has come up with a way to show people that that their “invisible” failures and setbacks are as important as their successes. Johannes Haushofer, a princeton professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, posted a CV of failures in an attempt to “balance the record” and…

Siu Chiu / Reuters There are three things, once one’s basic needs are satisfied, that academic literature points to as the ingredients for happiness: having meaningful social relationships, being good at whatever it is one spends one’s days doing, and having the freedom to make life decisions…

SIXTY is not the new 40. Fifty isn’t either. Your lung capacity in late-middle age is in steady decline, as are the fast-twitch muscle fibers that provide power and speed. Your heart capacity has been ebbing for decades. Your sight has been getting worse, your other senses, too, and this, along with…

The first item ever sold on Etsy was a coin purse in a tropical print. That was in 2005, and Etsy wasn’t much more than its founder’s dream: “an anarchist artist collective” that started when a guy who made wooden computers and fantasized about making everything right down to his very own underpants…

Articles: Do this. Directives — part 1 2016-04-18 First see “just tell me what to do” for context. These directives will take another form some day, with more details and references.And there are many more to come. But I decided to post this outline now, because so many people have asked for these…

This story is part of an ongoing campaign called the Alphabet of Illiteracy . By using letters themselves—the foundation of reading and writing— Project Literacy examines the ways illiteracy underpins some of the greatest challenges facing the world today. Below, we explore the letter X for “XXX.”…

W hen his three children were young, Warren Buffett installed a dime slot machine on the third floor of the family’s house, in Omaha, Nebraska. The objective was to convey the dangers of gambling, but it also meant the children’s allowance remained in his hands. “I could then give my children any…

Out on the sun-punched plains of central Texas, sign painter Norma Jeanne Maloney has recently set up her Red Rider Studios at the end of Main Street in sleepy Taylor. For a few thousand bucks, Maloney rents her space, a 116-year-old mint green building resembling an old west saloon. While it’s only…

Making a sustainable independent print magazine — — I’m the publisher, editor and designer of Offscreen Magazine , a publication that explores the human side of technology and the web. I’ve come to the publishing world by way of digital/web design. Until launching the inaugural issue of Offscreen I…

Although they only existed for a mere 7 years and released just 3 albums, Nirvana were a band of immeasurable influence in the music world thanks in no small part to Smells Like Teen Spirit , a single track on Nevermind , their second album. It was this song that brought them out into the open,…

Photograph: Steve Schofield for the Guardian O ne night in London in 2005, a woman said a surprisingly eerie thing to Monica Lewinsky . Lewinsky had moved from New York a few days earlier to take a master’s in social psychology at the London School of Economics. On her first weekend, she went…

Act I [This story initially appeared in ESPN the Magazine's Fame issue (May 9, 2016).] Ten years ago, Tiger Woods sat in his boyhood home across from his father's body, waiting on the men from the funeral home to arrive and carry Earl away. It was around 3 in the morning. Outside this bedroom in…

LET me tell you why “Adore” is the central song in the Prince canon. Because in “Adore” you get the commingling of two keys to understanding the man and his music: his sexuality and his spirituality. In the second verse he paints the picture: “When we be making love / I only hear the sounds /…

The official video for Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” was uploaded to YouTube on October 22, 2015. Within minutes of its drop, two separate friends had gleefully sent me the link. “Have you seen this? It’s amaaazing!” I watched it. It was. The track was clean and beautiful. Impossible to resist. The video…

“Running doesn’t ask for much, but it can give a lot.” Tracksmith Vs Javier Maya of Pavé , Barcelona 8°* Javier Maya is building the world’s most beautiful sports store. This is why. C yclist, runner, retailer and a highlight of our Instagram feed : Javier Maya is sitting at the cash desk while his…

Two months ago, I went into one of the more downmarket cell phone service providers. I had recently left my fancy smartphone in the back of cab, its only natural weakness. I viewed this as an opportunity, though, as I was tired of having a smartphone. I hated how rude and unobservant I had become,…

Like many recent college graduates, Ben Kim felt he was casting his résumé into an abyss when he clicked “apply online” for the hundredth or so time. “The most common response was nothing,” he said. That may be because, before capturing an employer’s eye, job hunters in the digital age often have to…

AT HubSpot, the software company where I worked for almost two years, when you got fired, it was called “graduation.” We all would get a cheery email from the boss saying, “Team, just letting you know that X has graduated and we’re all excited to see how she uses her superpowers in her next big…

This article was written by Alex Mayyasi , a Priceonomics staff writer When was the last time you met a couple where one person was attractive and the other was not? There’s no reason couples like that should stand out—except for the fact that they are so rare. Seeing it can set off an uncharitable…

As our relationship with photography shifts, will desktop-based photo-editing programs like the Google Nik Collection go the way of the film camera? Photograph by Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP “Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” Susan Sontag wrote in her seminal 1977 book “On…

The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Keetra Dean Dixon Near end of Albert Camus’s existentialist novel “The Stranger,” Meursault, the protagonist, is visited by a priest who offers him comfort in the face of his impending…

Douglas Kennedy, a novelist from New York who is very popular in France, was back in town recently after some time away, and he took note of the things that made him feel at home. “It’s such a vocal, loud place,” he said. “Coming out of the subway the other day, I heard a cabdriver having an…

When Ottessa Moshfegh published her debut novel, “ Eileen ,” last August, she did so without an online publicity apparatus. Vanity Fair noted that Ms. Moshfegh, 34, was an anomaly because she had neither social media profiles nor a website. There wasn’t much personal information floating around…

This blog has moved This blog has moved. http://asburyandasbury.com/blog Posted by Nick on February 15 in Miscellaneous | Permalink | Comments (0) Processes in the brain (and smiles in the mind) I’ve written an article for Creative Review this month. It’s called ‘How to write an award-winning annual…

HBR staff In the early 1980s, IBM decided to deploy an internal email system. In typical careful IBM fashion, they began by measuring employee communication, so they could estimate how many messages would be sent on the new system. Based on this research, IBM provisioned a $10 million mainframe to…

W hen I was young, there was nothing so bad as being asked to work. Now I find it hard to conjure up that feeling, but I see it in my five-year-old daughter. “Can I please have some water, daddy?” “You can get it yourself, you’re a big girl.” “WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS TREAT ME LIKE A MAID?” That was…

Shutterstock, Elena Scotti/FUSION I haven’t swiped in, like, two months,” said Gabriel*, a 24-year-old who grew up in the small West Texas town of Marfa, known for its art scene and its remote location several hours from any major city. We were sitting in a coffee shop, listening to a ‘90s Pandora…

Let's change the way we look at people with Down syndrome. AnnaRose is a nineteen year old from NJ. She's a full time college student who works part-time at a physical therapy center and enjoys basketball and swimming through the Special Olympics NJ. AnnaRose, as many people with Down syndrome, only…

Perception is key to resilience: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as a chance to learn and grow? Illustration by Gizem Vural Norman Garmezy, a developmental psychologist and clinician at the University of Minnesota, met thousands of children in his four decades of research. But one boy…

Recycling is nice, but some shop owners are trying to eliminate waste altogether. Image Credit Still life by Jess Bonham. Styled by Gemma Tickle THE SHOPPERS AT Original Unverpackt, a food market in the gentrifying but still gritty Berlin neighborhood of Kreuzberg, arrive largely by bicycle,…