Repeated scientific debunking hasn’t dented brainstorming’s popularity. Illustration by Nishant Choksi In the late nineteen-forties, Alex Osborn, a partner in the advertising agency B.B.D.O., decided

Imagine if when Windows 7 came out, it was only offered on only one particular Dell computer. It was also uncertain when or if other computers, including those made by Dell, would ever be able to upgr

Subscribe Now Playboy Archive Subscribe Now Welcome Subscribe Now Subscribe Now Enter Your Search Playboy Interview Paul Krugman A candid conversation with the Nobel Prize-winning economist and controver­sial columnist about how the economy went crazy and whether it can be fixed Jonathan Tasini…

John Doerr was crying. The billionaire venture capitalist had come to the end of his now-famous March 8, 2007, TED talk on climate change and renewable energy, and his emotions were getting the better

N new York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz has been nothing short of a phenomenon this year. In 2010, his first season, the undrafted free agent had the kind of woulda-coulda-shoulda start to an NFL

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T he NFL is done for the year, but it is not pure fantasy to suggest that it may be done for good in the not-too-distant future. How might such a doomsday scenario play out and what would be the econo

The Guts of a New Machine Two years ago this month, Apple Computer released a small, sleek-looking device it called the iPod. A digital music player, it weighed just 6.5 ounces and held about 1,000 so

Opinion My Guantánamo Nightmare Nice, France ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charg

Business and technology are two words that have gone together for decades. Business and Apple technology – well, not so much. Let’s face it, Apple made a name of itself by calling out “the man” and no

Media Platforms Design Team Published in the February 2012 issue Twenty years ago this month, on the early afternoon of February 18, 1992, in a lousy room with two double beds at the Days Hotel in Man

The must-have app on the iPhone is not iMessage. It's not iTunes or Safari or even Find My iPhone. It's Instagram, the photo-sharing app that once described itself as "quirky." Cultish would be more a

The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence. Sergey Ivanov/Flickr Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramat

Electronics retailer Best Buy is headed for the exits. I can’t say when exactly, but my guess is that it’s only a matter of time, maybe a few more years. Consider a few key metrics. Despite the disapp

Point, Texas (pop. 792) is not the easiest place for a single lesbian to raise her child. But neither her sexuality nor her unwed parenthood are enough to make Renee Johnson an American conservative’s

"The Great Illusion of Gettysburg." @YAppelbaum, @TheAtlantic http://t.co/X5qJdNaf #longreads

A year-and-a-half ago, a small group of Twitter employees set out to improve our team’s internal analytical and administrative tools. After some early meetings around this one product, we set out with

Designing for responsive websites can be a bit challenging at first because the process is so different. As designers, we’ve gotten used to building pixel-perfect mockups as our web blueprints. But re

Following yesterday’s release of Tweetbot 2.0 for iPhone and Tweetbot for iPad (our reviews here and here , more coverage here ), I was able to chat with Tapbots’ co-founder Paul Haddad (@tapbot_paul)

With the release of Tweetbot for iPad earlier today, we thought that this would be a good time to kick off an ongoing series of interviews with developers, designers and product managers actively working in the Mac and iOS field. This week, we speak to Tapbots’ Paul Haddad about the state of the App…

THE here and now are defined by astronomy and geology. Astronomy takes care of the here: a planet orbiting a yellow star embedded in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way, a galaxy that is itself pa

Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we

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Americans scarcely marked the eightieth Armistice Day, this past November 11. But standing with stricken faces before the Cenotaph at Whitehall and the Ossuaire at Verdun, and tolling bells in the glo

The New Yorker: RT @RyanLizza: Also, here's Ian Parker's 2006 @NewYorker profile of Hitchens: http://t.co/KVw0o5wn

Take a look at a Magnum Photos gallery on British teatime . There are rules to making a proper cup of tea. Now that “the holidays”—at their new-style Ramadan length, with the addition of Hanukkah plus

Love that one. In defense of "sass" : RT @TheAtlantic RT @danthegauchoman: I'm partial to this piece: http://t.co/mKDa6Uop #HitchReads

Today’s update to AirPort Utility for Lion reminds me of a topic I was willing to write about but eventually left in my nvALT queue due iOS 5 ( review ) and iCloud, various app releases, and the usual

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Way back in 2004 I wrote about how a scrappy young Google was replacing an increasingly stodgy Microsoft as the predominant tech company. A year later I wrote about how Google hoped to benefit from kn

Clear boils basic to-do list functionality down to something like a pure sensory experience. As you can see from the demo video, Clear boils basic to-do list functionality down to something like a pur

It's time to raise the outrageously low capital gains tax. When it comes to taxes, the Republican primary electorate this year has a split personality. As ever, it demands that presidential candidates