In defense of ‘clickbait’ — and why journalists should stop being so snobby http://t.co/venW6ghpaz ty @tedeschini

The most valuable innovation at the heart of Facebook was probably not the social network so much as the creation of a tool that convinced hundreds of millions of people to hand over so much personal data for so little in return. ILLUSTRATION BY JORDAN AWAN Not long ago, Zeynep Tufekci, a…

In defense of Amazon's long hours http://t.co/H4ofVNbZs1

Amazon employees entering the company’s offices in Seattle. It recently became the most valuable retailer in the country. Ruth Fremson/The New York Times SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon’s singular way of working. They are…

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by James Douglas A lot of Pixar films come packaged with a quasi-humanist narrative hook that enables the public digestion of their work. Viewers nodded thoughtfully over WALL-E ’s depiction of a future earth choked by the refuse of big-box retail, and of a human race infantilized and rendered obese…

I n the eighth month of my nine-month human pregnancy, I go on a binge-Googling of animal gestation periods. Frilled sharks, I discover, gestate for 42 months. Elephants take 22 months. Sperm whales: 16. Walruses: 15. Rhinos: 14. Horses: 11. I am seeking solidarity and comparative comfort in the…

“Fraud is so widespread that few growers can make an honest living,” one expert says. JOOST SWARTE On August 10, 1991, a rusty tanker called the Mazal II docked at the industrial port of Ordu, in Turkey, and pumped twenty-two hundred tons of hazelnut oil into its hold. The ship then embarked on a…

Katherine O’Reilly, a certified nurse midwife in her 30s, works full time at the Mesa County Health Department’s clinic in Grand Junction, Colo., and she’s eager to show off the clinic’s stash of one of the most effective forms of birth control. First, though, she has to get out her electronic badge…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. June Arbelo, a second-grade teacher at Central School, comforts a student who wants to go home during the first day of school. Tristan Spinski/GRAIN Leigh Robinson was out for a lunchtime walk one brisk day during the spring of 2013…

The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The…

The National Security Archive has posted several newly available documents , one of them an account by Charles Duelfer of the search he led in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, with a staff of 1,700 and the resources of the U.S. military. Duelfer was appointed by CIA Director George Tenet to…

Welcome to an age of sharing. Illustration by Joe Magee T he red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis , plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above. For much of the 20th century…

I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio…

Michal Novotný N o one would accuse Jaroslav Flegr of being a conformist. A self-described “sloppy dresser,” the 53-year-old Czech scientist has the contemplative air of someone habitually lost in thought, and his still-youthful, square-jawed face is framed by frizzy red hair that encircles his head…

Over the weekend at Comic-Con in San Diego, DC Comics and Warner Brothers released trailers for two superhero movies slated for released next year. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice appears to be a political parable: It deliberately alludes to such national traumas as 9/11 and the flooding of New…

At the Brooklyn preschool where my wife teaches, the parents of the youngest students, the not-yet-3-year-olds, arrive each fall wide-eyed and anxious. It's the start of their children's grand adventure in learning and socialization, with all the promise and pitfalls they recall from their own…

I worked at #HackingTeam, my email were leaked to @wikileaks, and I'm OK with that https://t.co/HXug57QrCg

Lovely essay by @harikunzru on the origin and legacy of "Dune", 50 years after its publication http://t.co/0jzaWVwUvA http://t.co/I5EKiodzjt

How I broke through the walls of my own mediocrity: http://t.co/9hXhHB58uT http://t.co/rpIvchfyz0

Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email. It was encrypted, and sent from the sort of anonymous email service that smart people use when they want to hide their identity. Sitting at the kitchen table in the small cottage where I lived in Berkeley with my wife and…

Articolo politica - religione - scuola Che genere di Dio L'ideologia che non c'è Una teologa risponde a chi in questi giorni protesta contro una fantomatica "ideologia del gender" spiegando perché non fa bene alla Chiesa e invitando a smettere di costruire prigioni per paura dei propri limiti, nel…

The Soviet version of the Space Shuttle, while not a success overall, had design advantages over the US version. http://t.co/JXaWpv6Bsv

Awesome article about #coding http://t.co/2vVpe2gm4G

Peter Welch is a writer and programmer. He is the author of the book And Then I Thought I Was a Fish and the blog " Still Drinking " . Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this…

Despite evidence that G.M.O.s make what we eat safer and healthier, more people are looking for food without them http://t.co/pCTvq6c7Kt

Is Richard Dawkins destroying his reputation? | Sophie Elmhirst http://t.co/3qBfFSWIRx

Peter Yang Smile at the customer. Bake cookies for your colleagues. Sing your subordinates’ praises. Share credit. Listen. Empathize. Don’t drive the last dollar out of a deal. Leave the last doughnut for someone else. Sneer at the customer. Keep your colleagues on edge. Claim credit. Speak first.…

16 maggio 2015 Anche i fisici sono filosofi: il ruolo della filosofia nella fisica moderna Philippe Lissac / GODONG Sullo stesso argomento Negli ultimi decenni, molti fisici di spicco hanno decretato più volte la fine della filosofia, a causa della sua "irragionevole inefficacia". Nel suo ultimo…

Expert publishing blog opinions are solely those of the blogger and not necessarily endorsed by DBW. Imperceptible, invisible almost, but it was there at the London Book Fair this year—publishers quietly clapping each other on the back and breathing a collective sigh of relief: Phew, thank goodness…

Working on 90 minutes of sleep a night: Adderall in the white-collar world -- http://t.co/1aOwox528I http://t.co/oU5CdOGhYW

Editors’ Note: The introductory paragraphs of this post appeared in similar form in an October, 2011, column by Jonah Lehrer for the Wall Street Journal. We regret the duplication of material. Here’s a simple arithmetic question: A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar…

Sembrava che il 4 febbraio 2015, con l’archiviazione da parte della Procura di Roma, il “caso Majorana” si fosse chiuso definitivamente. Non era così. E forse era ingenuo pensare che un fascicolo riposto in un cassetto potesse mettere la parola fine sulla scomparsa di un genio assoluto della fisica…

La notte che perdemmo #FriendFeed. http://t.co/6z7vxazBDZ via @therealzen

Minecraft è importante. Lo penso da quando @CarloCarabba mi mandò i manuali. @vntrfl su @Internazionale spiega perché http://t.co/iyZVW5GzSq

Avete troppo da fare? Dovreste, e dovreste farlo sapere a tutti con tono orgoglioso ma esasperato. Tipo questo, di un vecchio collega a cui avevo chiesto un consiglio: «Ti aiuterei volentieri ma non ce la faccio. Devo disperatamente riuscire a finire una sceneggiatura e un discorso che devo tenere a…

In the debut episode of our series on Positive Female Characters, we celebrate the Scythian, the protagonist of Capybara Games’ 2011 release Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. This episode examines how Sword & Sworcery employs widely recognizable action adventure game tropes to make the Scythian’s…

Un altro lettore di professione, il romanziere e critico Tim Parks, ha scritto in un lungo articolo sulla New York Review of Books: “Le condizioni in cui leggiamo al giorno d’oggi non sono più quelle di cinquant’anni fa e nemmeno di trenta. I momenti dedicati a letture serie te li devi conquistare e…

Paul Kalanithi with Cady. He died on 9 March 2015, aged 37. Photograph: Mark Hanlon/Stanford University School of Medicine I n residency there’s a saying: the days are long but the years are short. In neurosurgical training, the day usually began a little before 6am and lasted until the operating…

All Web articles should be single-page Illustration by Robert Neubecker. Slate ’s editorial guidelines call for articles to be split into multiple pages once they hit the 1,000-word mark, so I have to keep this brief: Splitting articles and photo galleries into multiple pages is evil. It should…