Fears that Greece would leave the euro zone gave us the term “Grexit,” that is, “Greek exit.” Britain votes today (June 23) on whether or not to leave the EU, a.k.a. “Brexit.” There are murmurs about an eventual “ Frexit .” The way things are going, every EU country may need its own term at some…

The United States government was stating the obvious on May 31 , when it warned that the Euro 2016 soccer tournament, which kicks off in Paris on June 10, will likely be a target for terrorism . The Islamic State (ISIL) had made its own intentions obvious last November, when it chose a…

Scientists discovered alien life in 1961. What, you don’t remember? There was even a drawing of them in the prestigious science journal Nature. True, you might not have known that from the decorous title of the paper in which it appeared – and the aliens were disappointingly microscopic in size. But…

Last night (June 6) on Game of Thrones , we found out who should truly win the Iron Throne, and it’s not Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow, Sansa Stark, Tyrion Lannister, or any of the other major characters on the HBO show. Rather, it’s a 10-year-old girl named Lyanna Mormont, who displayed more…

Spoilers for the latest episode of Game of Thrones follow, obviously. Forget Jon Snow’s resurrection: the moment that Daenerys walked out of the cinders of the Dosh Khaleen temple was when Game of Thrones came back to life. It’s a mirror of her first legend-making rebirth, when she walked unscathed…

The following is an edited extract from Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game by David Sumpter, published by Bloomsbury at £16.99. In this passage – David discusses the mechanics behind one of the greatest goals in modern memory. ‘Zlatan Ibrahimovic´! I want to go and give you…

Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Museum of the Second World War under construction, Gdańsk, Poland, April 17, 2016 In early 2017, Poland was supposed to unveil what is perhaps the most ambitious museum devoted to World War II in any country. A striking cantilevered tower of glass and red…

​​​​‘What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.’ Saint Augustine, Confessions (397-400 AD) ​‘Out of fear of dying, the art of storytelling was born.’ Eduardo Galeano, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009) I have a memory, a…

In 1999, a team of scientists led by Christian Körner did what thousands of people do every Christmas: they wrapped Norway spruce trees in tubes. Except this was in March, not December. And the trees were 40-metre-tall giants in the middle of a Swiss forest, not 2-metre pipsqueaks in a living room.…

„Dlaczego symulatory chodzenia nie dodadzą rozgrywki, żeby mogły stanowić zarazem niezwykle ważne kamienie milowe sztuki, które przetrwają próbę czasu, ORAZ gry?” – pytał niedawno na Twitterze Markus Persson, twórca słynnego „Minecrafta”, znacząca postać w branży gier. Trudno stwierdzić, czy było to…

The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless, if we don’t destroy ourselves first. The same would be true of intelligent aliens elsewhere in the Universe, assuming they exist: how far they travel depends strongly on how long they survive as a species. That survival variable, which the…

MATEUSZ HALAWA : Porozmawiajmy o kredycie w Polsce. O kredycie jako zjawisku ekonomicznym, ale też społecznym, kulturowym i obyczajowym. Możemy zacząć od porady, jakiej młodemu człowiekowi, który pytał, jak jego siostra ma kupić mieszkanie, skoro zarabia dwa tysiące, a pracy szukała trzy lata,…

I was recently invited to give a lecture on my research in Washington, DC. As a sociolinguist, I study the science of language in its social context. I began my lecture by describing the different ways that linguists subcategorize languages. Dialects, which most people are familiar with, are…

forward View The Photo Gallery It doesn’t get more full circle than this. Bios Incube is a biodegradable urn that turns your ashes into a tree. *Cue Lion King music* Rather than seeing death as an ending, the creators of Bios Incube wanted to celebrate life in a different way. Whether it’s a person…

Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel (1908), the American writer Jack London pictured a world in which a handful of wealthy corporate titans – the ‘oligarchs’ – kept the masses at bay with a brutal combination of…

This past spring I had to uninstall Dots on my phone because it was devastating my battery life and my pride. It's a ludicrously simple game. The objective is to make as many squares as you can in a minute by connecting like-colored dots on a grid. I got really good at it. So good I was ashamed. If…

With a growing number of Earth-like exoplanets discovered in recent years, it is becoming increasingly frustrating that we can’t visit them. After all, our knowledge of the planets in our own solar system would be pretty limited if it weren’t for the space probes we’d sent to explore them. The…

Nature, and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night. God said, Let Newton be! and All was Light . It did not last: the Devil howling “Ho! Let Einstein be!” restored the status quo. —J.C. Squire, “In continuation of Pope on Newton” The year 2016 is either the hundredth or the hundred and first anniversary of…

On its Facebook page, Muji describes its aim as creating “products that are really necessary in everyday life in the shapes that are really necessary.” Credit Photograph by Todd Heisler / The New York Times / Redux Last month, Muji, the Japanese life-style brand that sells household goods and…

Ostatnio w świecie kina modne są określenia soft remake i soft reboot – ich przykładami są chociażby „Jurassic World” oraz „Gwiezdne wojny: Przebudzenie Mocy”. Zabieg, w gruncie rzeczy balansujący na granicy autoplagiatu, polega na tym, że nowa część serii jest bardzo luźną adaptacją najlepszej ze…

This post originally appeared at LinkedIn . Follow the author here . Since 2004, Netflix employees have taken as many vacation days as they’ve wanted. They have the freedom to decide when to show up for work, when to take time off, and how much time it will take them to get the job done. As far as I…

The race to get humans on Mars has begun. SpaceX’s Elon Musk has said he thinks he can get humans to the Red Planet by 2026. Mars One says that its crew will land on Mars just a year later, in 2027. Nasa’s timeline has humans in Mars orbit by 2033, and on the surface of the planet by 2039. The…

The staff of London’s oldest whisky shop, Milroy’s of Soho, recommend four of their favourite drams from around the world WHISKY WEEK: Walking down Greek Street in Soho it’s easy to pass by an integral part of London’s drinking history without even looking twice. Milroy’s of Soho , widely considered…

Credit Illustration by Javier Jaén; Karen A. Racz / Courtesy the Author I didn’t set out to be a comma queen. The first job I ever had, the summer I was fifteen, was checking feet at a public pool in Cleveland. I was a “key girl”—“Key personnel” was the job title on my pay stub. I never knew what…

forward View The Photo Gallery Hats off to Samsung , the Korean giant seems genuinely committed to exploring new and novel design when most every other major television manufacturer is content producing slight variations of the same black display. Earlier this year Samsung and the brand’s head of…

Design Built to Last Much more than a game, chess is an alternative history of humanity | July/August 2015 In the third episode of “The Wire”, D’Angelo Barksdale, the hard but secretly soft-hearted Baltimore drug-dealer, comes across two of his narco underlings sitting at a chess board. Except they…

F or most authors the prospect of their books sending readers to sleep would be horrifying. But the latest publishing phenomenon which is topping the Amazon charts is a book which promises to do just that, at least for children. The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep, has been created by Swedish…

Wakacje i mapy mają ze sobą więcej wspólnego, niż tylko planowanie tras wypadów i wycieczek. Mapy są także integralną częścią wakacyjnych fantazji o przygodach, które nie znikają całkiem nawet wtedy, gdy wyrasta się z lektur typu „Wakacje z duchami”. To przygody, które nie muszą wykraczać poza…

Credit ILLUSTRATION BY ELLEN SURREY Not long ago, I walked into a friend’s kitchen and found her opening one of those evil, impossible-to-breach plastic blister packages with a can opener. This worked, and struck me as brilliant, but I mention it only to illustrate a characteristic that I admire in…

A new approach to protecting data and identity Cropped from src1 , src2 David Sanger and Julie Davis are reporters for the paper of record—the New York Times. Their recent article starts: WASHINGTON—The Obama administration on Thursday announced what appeared to be one of the largest breaches of…

Andy Lee Chaisiri Author Hopes And Fears While Western audiences constantly look to science fiction to get a feel for what the future might look like, anime is often overlooked when they pull out their crystal balls. This is a shame because the talented forces behind one of the world's most popular…

Artist Marija Tiurina has illustrated a beautiful series of posters that visually describe words from other languages that do not have an English equivalent. The series was created exclusively for NeonMob , a new social network for collecting, trading and selling digital art. Tiurina has an…

Her a film directed by Spike Jonze Ex Machina a film directed by Alex Garland A24 Films Alicia Vikander as the robot Ava in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina 1. We have been dreaming of robots since Homer. In Book 18 of the Iliad , Achilles’ mother, the nymph Thetis, wants to order a new suit of armor for…

Superheroes might be the people of tomorrow, but for the last 75 years, they’ve been influenced by the technological advances of the day. From Superman to The Avengers, these vigilantes have long looked to the politics of science and technology, and the fears that come with them, to create new…

Warmduscher , in German, refers to a Goldilocks-like person who only takes warm showers, implying that he is a bit of wimp. Gurfa , in Arabic, is the amount of water than can be held in one hand. Nunchi , in Korean, is the art of listening and gauging another’s mood. We have all met these people or…

Nie wierzysz w cuda? Tradycyjne religie nie przekonują cię, a ich koncepcja świata i człowieka wydają ci się nieadekwatne? Możesz za to uwierzyć w start-up, jedną z najdynamiczniej rozwijających się religii późnego kapitalizmu. Książka Mike’a Michalowicza „Start-Up bez pieniędzy. Filozofia trzech…

O n April 11, 2012, Zeddie Little appeared on Good Morning America , wearing the radiant, slightly perplexed smile of one enjoying instant fame. About a week earlier, Little had been a normal, if handsome, 25-year-old trying to make it in public relations. Then on March 31, he was photographed amid…

George Clooney in Gravity . Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University , New America , and Slate . Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture. On Thursday, April 9, Future Tense…

1. Writers, praise the typographers and designers: our words are in their hands. 2. Bookshelves line the walls of my office. The room is small, and with the

By By all accounts, Marilyn vos Savant was a child prodigy. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1946, the young savant quickly developed an aptitude for math and science. At age 10, she was given two intelligence tests -- the Stanford-Binet, and the Mega Test -- both of which placed her mental capacity…