Mysteries of the Ancient Unknown An occasional segment where Colbert investigates unexplained phenomenon of the distant past, "Mysteries of the Ancient Unknown" peaked with his pseudo-hard-hitting 201
It only takes one person to make you happy and change your life this summer: YOU. I am endlessly fascinated by the link between the way we choose to live our lives and the happiness we enjoy on a dail
Published in Technology Musings · 12 min read · Dec 22, 2014 -- Podcasting started about ten years ago and I remember watching Dave Winer and Adam Curry devise a way in public, in near real-time, to t
S ometimes you see something that feels like it was pulled straight from your imagination. It can almost feel invasive — like someone has aggregated all the things that interest you, that haunt you, t
At the end of a gravel road in the Chippewa National Forest of northern Minnesota, a group of camp counselors has gathered to hear psychotherapist Tina Bryson speak about neuroscience, mentorship, and
Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, and Jim Webb may all run for President in 2016. Illustration by John Cuneo The Sunday before Election Day, Hillary Clinton addressed a crowd of voters at an afternoon
I’m not going to sit here and write some column seething with venom and overt rage towards the New York Times. That looked ugly enough on their end when they did it last night . What I will say is tha
Programmers dream of new code. We spend a good deal of our time working on code we didn’t write for software we didn’t create, much of which we believe is horribly written (or, at least, could be done
A version of this story appears in the Dec. 29 issue of Sports Illustrated. Don Brown had just spent an hour inside the Boston College defensive film room, dissecting the performance of Florida State
This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Jan. 5 Championship Drive Issue. Subscribe today! THE 35-SECOND CLIP encapsulates how far apart they are, one man casually spinning a football on his fingers,
I t started as a continuation of the misadventures of the Griswold family; it ended up becoming one of the most surprisingly popular and oft-quoted holiday movies of all time. National Lampoon’s Chris
College football fans don’t agree on much, especially where the forthcoming playoff field is concerned, but as the season has unfolded, the nation has unified around one thing and one thing only: the
| USA TODAY Sports ATLANTA — Paul Johnson had already been at Navy for four years when he placed a call to Roger Inman, his old do-everything man from Georgia Southern. They had known each other since
A week before Christmas 2011, Ruth Soukup, a thirty-three-year-old stay-at-home mom of two girls in Punta Gorda, Florida, was throwing toys into a bin. An avid shopper who started a blog about spendin
Power down When is the last time you powered down. All the way down. Not asleep. Not in airplane mode but ON | OFF . Try it with me now. Take your phone out, if you’re not already futzing with it, and
The St. Louis county officials released photos of Officer Darren Wilson after his altercation with Michael Brown. We've finally heard from Officer Darren Wilson . Wilson had been publicly silent since
The New Yorker's next cover is incredible. http://t.co/aCtcI2lilI pic.twitter.com/kLD9u1Aglz — Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) November 26, 2014 I've seen a whole lot of commentary online about people who
Of course there are several author photos in Bob Odenkirk’s new book. Collectively, they’re a nod to the abundance of Odenkirks spread across the cultural spectrum. There’s the dramatic actor whose re
F or millennia, if not for eons—anthropology continuously pushes backward the time of human origin—life expectancy was short. The few people who grew old were assumed, because of their years, to have
Florida State -- if you want to address them as a whole, collective personage -- knows. They know. They know you hate them, and their quarterback, and their fans, and their fans on Twitter, and their
Daniel Ek says his company is “not in the music space—we’re in the moment space.” Illustration by Harry Campbell; photograph: Eyevine / Redux Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the te
The Long Way Home Demaryius Thomas is within reach of realizing all his NFL dreams. But to gain what he wants most -- his family reunited -- he's learning to let go of what tore them apart. ESPN The M
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Greg Savage, founder of Firebrand (an Aquent brand down under) posted this no-holds-barred post about the importance of showing up on time. We thought it was too good not to share.
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Android updates don't matter anymore—or at least that's what many people think. Back-to-back-to-back Jelly Bean releases and a KitKat release seemed to only polish what already existed. When Google to
The Oatmeal Home Comics Games Books Blog Subscribe Dear Senator Ted Cruz, I'm going to explain to you how Net Neutrality ACTUALLY works "Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet sho
Lessig’s super PAC has “the biggest chance to fail of anything I’ve ever done,” he says. Illustration by Nishant Choksi Last spring, Lawrence Lessig, a fifty-three-year-old Harvard legal theorist who
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A cardinal fact of American politics that has emerged during the Obama years is that demographic forces are slowly and inexorably driving the electorate leftward.
In a provocative essay published over the weekend by the New York Times, Duke University professor David Schanzer and one of his students, Jay Sullivan, argued that the midterm elections had not only
Football is bathed in jargon. Other sports have their wonky terms but anyone who even casually watches a football game is bombarded with a cascade of code words, while even experienced fans usually can’t make heads or tails of what coaches and players say to each other on the sidelines. Some of this…
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It would be cliché to suggest that you not believe everything you read. But I’m going to do it anyway, because the banality of that old bromide doesn’t make it any less true. News coverage is one thin
‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles. It was a s
Most people aren’t excited at the prospect of auditing code, but it’s become one of my favorite types of projects. A CSS audit is really detective work. You start with a site’s code and dig deeper: yo
T wenty-five years ago this fall, a crowd of thousands gathered along the east side of the Berlin Wall and demanded, with the urgency of people who had spent decades under an authoritarian communist regime, that the border guards let them pass to the other side. That night, the gates swung open and…
Over the weekend I installed OS X Yosemite on my MacBook Air. Its new interface, partially inspired by the dramatic aesthetic shift that its sibling made with iOS 7, will take some getting used to for
Bill Scher is the senior writer at the Campaign for America’s Future, and co-host of the Bloggingheads.tv show “The DMZ” along with the Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis. On Aug. 17, 1992, Pat Buchanan and th
Apple released new iPads yesterday, bringing thinner, faster models to market while keeping the old ones available at lower prices. With a remarkable 56 different models to choose from, you'd think th
This column is going to be a little personal for me because I'm writing about the team that I played for six out of my seven years in the NFL. The one thing I can assure you of is you will never have
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