Search Find anything you save across the site in your account Cultural Comment January 24, 2021 The most glaring artistic error in “Soul” is its misprision—its elision, really—of what soul means for b
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Editor’s note: In Adventure Journal 17, summer 2020, we published a story called “The Ghost in the Tent,” by journalist Jason Nark, who had been trying to decipher the mystery of a man known only by h
I Love It! (I Hate It.) There's a sound of rustling paper. You crack the wrap at the seam. You look inside, unveiling the item within. It's... Crap. It’s crap. It’s a crap present that you don’t want.
source A common piece of interacting-with-people advice goes: “often when people complain, they don’t want help, they just want you to listen!” For instance, Nonviolent Communication:✻✻ Nonviolent Com
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This purpose of this point is to preserve the true meaning of Raymond Wolfinger’s oft-misquoted aphorism. Via the Internet Archive’s snapshot of this July 6, 2004 post on listserv.linguistlist.org: Ne
On this day in 1989, a gunman walked into an engineering school in Montreal and began to systematically shoot the female students. Fourteen women died.
I was a junior at the University of Toronto at the time.
I wrote about it on its 25th anniversary. https://t.co/9rxd6SVkyw
From Julia Child to Paul Bocuse to James Beard, some of the biggest names in food history are also people who have professed their love for the same french fry—a french fry that, in no exaggerated man
We knew this to be true: Computers could run fast and hot, or slow and cool. For laptops in particular, the best you could hope for is a middle ground: fast enough and cool enough. But if you wanted a
Photographs by Julia Sellmann Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a question for the first time: What is it like to raise a child with Down syndrome? Sometimes
What does the future hold? In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction — in movies, books, TV, games, and beyond — to see how storytellers and innova
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Kami West had been d
October 4, 2020 / gbl08ma / 0 Comments Many people have been experiencing strange time perception phenomenon throughout 2020, but certain database management systems have been into time shenanigans fo
Search Find anything you save across the site in your account Shouts & Murmurs August 25, 2020 Photograph by Simon Potter / Alamy Is it 2 P.M. already? Ugh. I’ve done nothing today. I woke up, stretch
For over six years, one Wikipedia user—AmaryllisGardener—has written well over 23,000 articles on the Scots Wikipedia and done well over 200,000 edits. The only problem is that AmaryllisGardener isn’t
This article was discussed on Hacker News (later), on reddit (also), featured in BSD Now 294. Also check out this Endlessh analysis.
I’m a big fan of tarpits: a network service that intentionally inserts delays in its protocol, slowing down clients by forcing them to wait. This arrests the speed at…
The Nine Billion Names of God Arthur C. Clarke “This is a slightly unusual request,” said Dr. Wagner, with what he hoped was commendable restraint. “As far as I know, it’s the first time anyone’s been
T o have a job without a workplace, you must build an office of the mind. Structure, routine, focus, socialization, networking, stress relief—their creation is almost entirely up to you, alone in a sp
A t the beginning of April I wrote a piece for the Guardian. If you haven’t read it, the headline pretty much sums it up: “Terminal cancer means I won’t see the other side of lockdown”. Given the pand
The Correspondent Jesse Frederik – Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing SoundCloud In front of a sea of coders sitting on folding chairs, their laptops on folding tables, a man appears
Circuit Judge Consuelo M. Callahan, in last week’s decision by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, reversing the District Court’s ruling that Qualcomm was guilty of antitrust violations, opene
Thinking of yourself as a separate entity can reduce anxiety, while also kicking up some major benefits for your confidence and determination. As we head into 2021, Worklife is running our best, most
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) now permeate nearly every feature on the iPhone, but Apple hasn't been touting these technologies like some of its competitors have. I wanted to
Earlier this month, Walt Disney World began reopening, following almost four months of closure due to the pandemic. I flew to Orlando to experience the magic. The week I arrived, Florida had registere
“ How to Build a Life ” is a biweekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Imagine reading a story titled “The Relentless Pursuit of Booze.” You would likely expect a
In the search for happiness, we often confuse how something looks with how it’s likely to make us feel. This is especially true when it comes to our homes. If we want to maximize happiness, we need to
Enlarge / This G4 Cube ran for several years as a headless server until succumbing to the thermal issues that plagued the device from launch. It's now a decoration in Managing Editor Eric Bangeman's o
The Mask Wars are one of the stranger offshoots of COVID-19.
Yesterday’s battleground was a Victorian outlet of Bunnings. Iconic, certainly, but not usually regarded as the birthplace of liberty. (Free to read!) https://t.co/Qv0EYPaIpF
There’s a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on every single day. It happens in the TCP protocol, one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. TCP is a way
A decade ago, Steve Jobs sat down at the D8 conference for an interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg . What followed was a masterclass in both company and product management. The whole intervie
In 1966, nine years after gaining his Ph.D. with a dissertation titled The Self-Energy of the Scalar Nucleon , physicist Koichi Mano wrote a congratulatory letter to Richard Feynman , the man who had
Feel free to file Google’s release this week of an update to their iPad Gmail app with support for split-screen multitasking under “better late than never”, but this is so late it borders on the absur
Everyone has a prediction of how the Mac ARM transition is going to happen, so I thought I’d add my own (as an expansion of some tweets I made in late April ). This is based only on public rumors and
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