Credit... Illustration by Denise Nestor Language was long understood as a human-only affair. New research suggests that isn’t so. Credit... Illustration by Denise Nestor By Sept. 20, 2023 Can a mouse
At first glance sumo is nothing if not bizarre: overweight men dressed in an enormous thong pushing each other inside a small ring where the pre-ceremony is usually longer than the actual fight. Howev
The Sea Of Crises A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion. A sumo wrestling tournam
Credit... Erik Carter Nonfiction In her latest book, “Doppelganger,” Naomi Klein investigates an online underworld of conspiracies and misinformation, showing how its rise has inadvertently been fuele
“In my defense, it was never my intent to write this book.” So begins Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World . It all began when Klein, the liberal activist and blockbuster writer be
Streaming service Netflix released its latest trailer for "Sanctuary," an upcoming sumo-themed drama, last Saturday. With a tagline of “Debt, violence, family dysfunction,” the two-minute-long preview
Credit... Gritchelle Fallesgon for The New York Times If the goal of your workout is to walk away with a chiseled six-pack, you’re missing the point. Credit... Gritchelle Fallesgon for The New York Ti
In the late nineteen-nineties, a neuroscientist named Mark Blumberg stood in a lab at the University of Iowa watching a litter of sleeping rats. Blumberg was then on the cusp of forty; the rats were n
On algorithms 📜 Is your complex O(n) algorithm faster than the trivial O(n 2 )? Theoretical complexity matters, but know your expected value of “n”. The linear algorithm may be slower than the quadrat
NEWS Making Magic In My Day Posted in Making Magic on August 17, 2009 By Mark Rosewater Archive Twitter Working in R&D since '95, Mark became Magic head designer in '03. His hobbies: spending time wi
Imagine a card game where there are hundreds of cards, with more being made all the time. Some cards are rare and some are common. You build a deck with whatever cards you want. You have no idea what’
Japan as a nation has long possessed a keen awareness of climate. Kigo , the phrases that evoke the feel of the seasons, are the foundation of haiku poetry. Shun , the term for seasonality, guides the
A few years ago, a mining company was considering reopening an old mine shaft in Welkom, a city in South Africa’s interior. Welkom was once the center of the world’s richest goldfields. There were clo
These are strange days for the American stock market, with the exuberance of investors defying the bleakest of outlooks. Yet, even in this warped moment, the outsized success last year of a tiny compa
A room without books is like a body without a soul, and the same is true of a city without an independent cinema. If New York has survived the rise of VHS and DVD and streaming—and this is no Luddite’
Sociological concept For the concept of third place in sports and other competitions, see Third place playoff . Not to be confused with Third Space Theory . This barber shop in Brazil is an example of
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