Making babies in space: hard to conceive? By @Eaterofsun, and featuring sperm rockets and giant mutant lampreys: http://t.co/43TRBayNCj

How indie developers finished Half-Life 3 Feature When a former Valve writer shared his vision for the most-anticipated sequel ever, a group of indie developers tried to bring it to life Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice players "need to be constantly on edge" warns Hidetaka Miyazaki By Rachel Weber news…

Back in 2006, I gave a talk at dConstruct called The Joy Of API . It basically involved me geeking out for 45 minutes about how much fun you could have with APIs. This was the era of the mashup—taking data from different sources and scrunching them together to make something new and interesting. It…

Time Management Get More Done Paradoxically, by introducing more structure to your day-to-day, you'll have more freedom to pursue projects you love. 0 We know that creativity can flourish when our minds are free to wander during unstructured time. However, a completely open calendar can lead to a…

A student takes college entrance exams. What does research say about tiger parenting? Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters. When Amy Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother came out in 2011, it sparked controversy among many people but especially psychologists and experts in child development. The…

THE NEW YORKER last week carried a cartoon of a man delivering a commencement address to a graduating class, all in caps and gowns, and his advice was: “It’s an intern-eat-intern world out there!” I thought of that cartoon after recently writing about the start-up HireArt , which specializes in…

Get Motivated Dealing With Failure First you hate the plateau, then you get used to the plateau, and finally, you need the plateau. 0 As David Foster Wallace wrote in his novel “Infinite Jest,” the path to genuine mastery of your craft is “slow, frustrating. Humbling. A question of less talent than…

Despite ample evidence and countless testaments to the opposite, there persists a toxic cultural mythology that creative and intellectual excellence comes from a passive gift bestowed upon the fortunate few by the gods of genius, rather than being the product of the active application and consistent…

Why young women are rejecting academic research careers Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Young women scientists leave academia in far greater numbers than men for three reasons. During their time as PhD candidates, large numbers of women conclude that (i) the characteristics of academic…

Good humor, as most of us have come to realize, is a rare commodity in games, and with good reason. It’s an incredibly difficult and unscientific challenge to integrate resonant and effective comedy into the formal language of games. There’s no algorithm for it and developers can usually be forgiven…

Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of Return of the Jedi , the third and (for awhile) final chapter in the Star Wars saga. It also was, arguably, the weakest of the chapters until the 1999 release of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace . We’ll put aside that abomination and focus instead on Jedi , a more…

Potato chips are usually thought of as a lunchtime companion -- a crunchy side to your sandwich or wrap -- but their time has come to shine as a breakfast star. Think of them as a low-effort breakfast potato, which is the best kind of breakfast potato, especially on those morning where frying…

UNA POLITICA PIATTA E VUOTA Basso merito zero ambizioni C'è stato un tempo felice in cui tutto il corpo sociale viveva di impulsi politici. Dalla fine della guerra fino al crollo della Prima Repubblica la vita di tutti era segnata dal primato della politica: dal primato delle grandi ideologie…

Work / Life Balance Work / Life Balance We're addicted to distraction, and it's holding us back. To find genius in the 21st century, we must build a discipline of unplugging and deep thinking. 0 Interruption-free space is sacred. Yet, in the digital era we live in, we are losing hold of the few…

5 Reasons Why I'm a Shitty Blogger - List posts are the hottest thing in blogging now. 50 Ways to Leave Your... http://t.co/NIZnhz1sm2

Una cosa che ho scritto: perché abolire i Giovani Democratici farebbe bene ai giovani democratici http://t.co/pkdQMS9QWK (anche agli altri)

Download “Make Your Thing” Manifesto (PDF) Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success For the past two years or so, I’ve been crisscrossing the country, delivering an award-winning talk called Make Your Thing. (I should note that it has not won any…

I “Mi piace” non salvano vite http://t.co/8zuoe4V73i L'intelligente campagna di UNICEF Svezia contro l'attivismo da clic

When How I Work was just an idea, the Lifehacker team made a "yeah right, in your dreams, probably not gonna happen" list of people the series would feature. Cory Doctorow was toward the top. He's a hero of ours, and here are a few reasons why: He co-edits Boing Boing , one of the best blogs on the…

Image: Flickr The man who invented cyberspace knew nothing about computers at the time. William Gibson, author of the seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer and the man perhaps most responsible for getting an entire generation amped on the idea of virtual reality, says that he originally conceived of…

Let’s say you are a young person beginning to write about politics and policy. You probably have some idea of what you believe, but have you thought about how you believe it? That is to say, have you thought about where you will sit on the continuum that stretches from writers who are engaged to…

Published: May 2013 A Mixed Blessing If we don’t watch out, agriculture could destroy our planet. Here’s how to grow all the food we need with fewer chemicals. By Dan Charles Photograph by Peter Essick N. Nitrogen. Atomic number seven. Unnoticed, untasted, it nevertheless fills our stomachs. It is…

Suppose a team of auditors is tasked with understanding a particular billionaire’s bank account. Each month, millions of dollars flow into and out of the account. If the auditors look at the account on random days, they see varying amounts of money. However, on the last day of every month, the…

A correspondent whom I respect has (gently) challenged me to say plainly what I think Cyprus should do — leaving aside all questions about political realism. And he’s right: while I think it’s OK to spend most of my time on this blog working within the limits of the politically possible, and relying…

“If you’re a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.” – David Halberstam It was only a few months ago that both collaborations at the Large…

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DaveCrosby/flickr In the United States, ambiguity in division of household responsibilities between working couples often results in ongoing negotiations, resentment, and tension. According to a 2007 Pew Research Poll , sharing household chores was in the top three highest-ranking issues associated…