Tea Partiers say you don’t understand them because you don’t understand American history. That’s probably true, but not in the way they want you to think. Late in 2012, I came out of the Lincoln movie

While Half-Life has seen resounding critical and financial success (winning over 50 Game of the Year awards and selling more than a million copies worldwide), few people realize that it didn’t start out a winner — in fact, Valve’s first attempt at the game had to be scrapped. It was mediocre at…

David Graeber is an American anthropologist who teaches at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the classic "Debt: The First Five Thousand Years" and played an important role in the lau

Robbie McClaran Nick Hanauer is a Seattle-based entrepreneur. Memo: From Nick Hanauer To: My Fellow Zillionaires You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapolo

“Perks should be the garnish, not the meal, when it comes to the employment experience.” http://t.co/6ztD9l2yEv Fantastic article.

RT @purelyfunc: What it’s like to use Haskell http://engineering.imvu.com/2014/03/24/what-its-like-to-use-haskell/ #haskell

Conor McDonough Conor McDonough ‌ Whether you were throwing a dinner for people you felt compelled to not impress , or just hate paying $2.01 and up for literally anything, at some point you've likely

“So why are techies being held to a higher standard of civic behavior than any other clique in the city’s history?” http://t.co/ExKw0vD6AO

RT @SimonParkin: Rapture Leaked: The true story behind BioShock - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-04-17-the-true-story-of-bioshock

Bethany Howard is a 35-year-old mother of two with a hundred things on her mind. Her iPhone twirling in her hand, she sits across from Dr. Bernard Nash, her internist of 11 years. The doctor sits clos

In about A.D. 1300 the Anasazi people abandoned Long House Valley . To this day the valley, though beautiful in its way, seems touched by desolation. It runs eight miles more or less north to south, o

Check me out. The top two knuckles of my left hand look as if I’d been worked over by the K.G.B. No, it’s more as if I’d been a catcher for the Hall of Fame pitcher Candy Cummings, the inventor of the

[Content warning: Discussion of social justice, discussion of violence, spoilers for Jacqueline Carey books.] [Edit 10/25: This post was inspired by a debate with a friend of a friend on Facebook who

Recently, our nation’s financial chieftains have been feeling a little unloved. Venture capitalists are comparing the persecution of the rich to the plight of Jews at Kristallnacht , Wall Street titan

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Family and friends attend the funerals of three female victims of a massacre that left 13 dead and more than a dozen wounded in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in 2010. Most of the victims were between 14 and

L et me tell you about this one stretch of Hillsborough Road in Durham, North Carolina. It’s between two freeways, just a short drive from the noble towers of Duke University, and in the space of abou

RT @krinndnz: The government just said "supporting terrorism & drug cartels is fine if you're rich enough." http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213?print=true

David X. Cohen Futurama is over. No, really this time. After seven seasons, a few cancellations, and multiple visits to parallel universes, the long-running sci-fi animated series finally ended its ru

Björk. Ethereal, tiny, quixotic, Icelandic Björk. At some point in the past, someone stuck a camera in front of her face and told her to explain television . She does, sort of, referring to the circui

Lucero told the hit man to meet him behind the Loaf ’N Jug, where they could have some privacy. But the hit man parks out front. Broad daylight. Fuck. Lucero’s never done this sort of thing before, ne

The true purpose of the McRib explained. I'm not sure if I'm hungry or not after reading this. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/the-mcrib-enjoy-your-symptom/281413/

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RT @jcoglan: .@sarahmei "Why you should never use MongoDB" http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never-use-mongodb/ -- a more nuanced and detailed analysis than the title wo…

Photo: Platon On September 26—a day that just happened to be the 27th anniversary of his swearing-in as associate justice—Antonin Scalia entered the Supreme Court’s enormous East Conference Room so ca

RT @jbouie: “This business philosophy is greedy, selfish, and shortsighted.” http://www.businessinsider.com/ayn-rand-is-ruining-the-american-economy-2013-9

It’s been just over twenty-five years since Prozac came to market, and more than twenty per cent of Americans now regularly take mind-altering drugs prescribed by their doctors. Almost as familiar as

Coronado High By Joshuah Bearman 1976 There, on the horizon: a ship. Dave Strather could see it through binoculars, the sails ghostly against the water. He was sitting on an exposed cliff overlooking

Working at @dish: Fingerprint scanners and automatic emails to HR if you arrive after 9am. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-02/dish-network-the-meanest-company-in-america

RT @timoreilly: Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/08/29/why-a-medieval-peasant-got-more-vacation-time-than-you/ via @gnat

Ethan Hawke on his Latest Project One of Hollywood's most versatile talents headlines our October Most Influential People Issue Explore The Cover Story Tyra Banks Takeover Announcing the debut of our

Next post Previous post At Ryan Irelan’s request, @drdrang I really want to see a blog post about potato chips. — Ryan Irelan ( @ryanirelan ) Sun Nov 18 2012 9:47 PM CST here’s a post about the struct

On a bright Thursday afternoon in 2007, Jennifer Boatright, a waitress at a Houston bar-and-grill, drove with her two young sons and her boyfriend, Ron Henderson, on U.S. 59 toward Linden, Henderson’s

RT @ejacqui: "rich kids w/o college degree 2.5x more likely to end up rich than poor kids who do graduate from college" http://t.co/BSMzHY…

It's cold in Buffalo, and signs of the housing recovery are hard to see. Take the long walk down Main Street and you'll pass foreclosed homes, a shuttered hospice, and more than a few yellowing FOR SA