Photograph from Getty As an inhabitant of planet Earth, I’ve heard a lot of people ask, “Can women really have it all?” and other people respond, “You can have it all, just not all at the same time.” Well, guess what, everyone. You’re wrong! I do have it all. Me! I have all of it. I have two kids…

Sul “Sole 24 ore” del 24 marzo (ma alcuni spunti erano già sul “Foglio” del 6 febbraio ) Alfonso Berardinelli parla della crisi dell’editoria e della critica letteraria, che per lui vanno di pari passo: nello scenario editoriale degli ultimi anni il libro è diventato un’entità intoccabile e…

04 aprile 2018 14:21 Seconda punta di un articolo in tre parti. Prima parte , terza parte . Questa è la seconda puntata di un discorso su informazione e disinformazione, a partire dalla vicenda Facebook-Cambridge Analytica. Riassunto della prima puntata : noi decidiamo in base alle informazioni che…

Understanding Evangelion Editor's Note: This article was not possible without a number of spoilers, we don't feel that the spoilers a big enough to ruin a viewer's enjoyment of Evangelion , but be warned that they are there. With the recent series' Box Set release and the highly anticipated American…

Nel 2018 fare attivismo politico – e soprattutto in difesa dei migranti – è un’impresa quasi impossibile. Dal 1998 a oggi, l’associazione Front Line Defenders registra l’uccisione di oltre 3.500 difensori dei diritti, 312 nel solo 2017; tra loro attivisti che si battevano per l’ambiente, avvocati…

È successo che mi sono ritrovato all’improvviso in un cocktail party, in una casa sontuosa, con la servitù filippina (mi sono informato) che insisteva a darti da bere del vino stupendo dentro bicchieri bellissimi. Negli angoli, tutti gli angoli, per ogni tipologia di oggetto c’era un’intera…

I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago, the biggest news still somehow finds a way to slip through. But for much of the next 24 hours after that alert, I heard almost nothing about the shooting.…

Rachel O’Dwyer | An essay originally anthologized in Ours To Hack and To Own : The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet | OR Books | August 2017| 6 minutes (1,600 words) * * * The current rhetoric around the blockchain hints at problems with the…

illustration for O-KOREA1210 (Washington Post illustration/images by iStock) No one wants to fight a nuclear war. Not in North Korea, not in South Korea and not in the United States. And yet leaders in all three countries know that such a war may yet come — if not by choice then by mistake. The…

H uman beings are born too soon. Within hours of arriving in the world, a baby antelope can clamber up to a wobbly standing position; a day-old zebra foal can run from hyenas; a sea-turtle, newly hatched in the sand, knows how to find its way to the ocean. Newborn humans, on the other hand, can’t…

The Art of Vanishing | Viking | February 2018 | 22 minutes (5,980 words) I have long been in the habit of passing by houses and wondering about the people who live inside. I grew up in a residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., the kind where the homes are close together and neighbors often…

Photography: Jorge Quiñoa Translation: Teresa Galarza (Versión en castellano aquí ) If we had to describe Fabiola Gianotti in a single word that would be vocation. If we had two, we could add: magnetism. If we were granted a third, it would be, undoubtedly: flair. The first woman to hold the…

On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up until the last weeks of the race, the campaign headquarters had remained a listless place. All that seemed to distinguish it from a corporate back office were a few posters with right-wing…

(Alla Dreyvitser/The Washington Post/Alla Dreyvitser/The Washington Post) Five years ago, I was at a memorial. Another suicide. Our third doctor in 18 months. Everyone kept whispering, "Why?" That was when I decided I had to find an answer. So I started counting dead doctors. I left that memorial…

For today’s humans, life in a Dyson sphere would be disorienting at best and impossible at worst. But that need not stop future biological or non-biological life-forms from thriving there.

Il giornalista e sociologo Marco Omizzolo ha trascorso tre mesi da infiltrato tra i lavoratori punjabi del Pontino, nuovi schiavi invisibili che raccontano il volto oscuro dell’Italia Testo di Marco Omizzolo. Foto in copertina di Umberto Feola P iù di tre mesi trascorsi a lavorare nei campi agricoli…

layer innocent nothing argue pottery winner cotton menu task slim merge maid T he sequence of words is meaningless: a random array strung together by an algorithm let loose in an English dictionary. What makes them valuable is that they’ve been generated exclusively for me, by a software tool called…

Dungeons & Dragons turns forty this year. The game, which I played in my youth, is entering middle age just a few years behind me. My interest in—or, I should say, my obsession with—D. & D. coincided with the height of its popularity, in the nineteen-eighties. D. & D. was more than just a fad or a…

The 1980s were the best of times and the worst of times for Dungeons & Dragons (Eric Grundhauser) These days your life isn’t complete if you aren’t part of a role-playing gaming group, but it wasn’t that long ago that playing Dungeons & Dragons was seen as a surefire ticket to madness and damnation.…

‘Reducing my habit made me see how little value Facebook added to my life’ ... Arwa Mahdawi in her apartment in New York.Photograph: Ali Smith for the Guardian I t was winter 2016 when I reached rock bottom. I went on a three-day Facebook binge. I can’t remember what set it off, but I remember how…

Jon Juarez Last January, the Chinese Academy of Sciences invited Liu Cixin, China’s preeminent science-fiction writer, to visit its new state-of-the-art radio dish in the country’s southwest. Almost twice as wide as the dish at America’s Arecibo Observatory, in the Puerto Rican jungle, the new…

One summer day when I was nine, I climbed into a hair stylist’s chair and asked them to cut my hair to my ears. Until that point, I’d always had a head of long hair tumbling over my shoulder, useful for coquettish tossing when I imagined myself as Snow White or Cinderella. I had never worn short…

Everyone says the blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, is going to change EVERYTHING. And yet, after years of tireless effort and billions of dollars invested, nobody has actually come up with a use for the blockchain—besides currency speculation and illegal…

Y ou are an inmate in a luxury hotel. Locked in your soundproof suite, you hear nothing and see nothing. Liveried butlers bring you meals on silver carts. You have plenty of time to read, think, and listen to music. All the riches of culture can be called down at your whim. But you are trapped, too,…

Michelle Jones was released last month after serving more than two decades in an Indiana prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son. The very next day, she arrived at New York University, a promising Ph.D. student in American studies. In a breathtaking feat of rehabilitation, Ms. Jones, now 45,…

In rural Mecosta County, Mich., sits a near-windowless facility with a footprint about the size of Buckingham Palace. It’s just one of Nestlé’s roughly 100 bottled water factories in 34 countries around the world. Inside, workers wear hairnets, hard hats, goggles, gloves, and earplugs. Ten…

“These European governments—their technology is so good, but they know nothing,” an Eritrean smuggler said. Illustration by Oliver Munday; photograph by Italian Navy / Marina Militare / Anadolu Agency / Getty (boat) On October 3, 2013, a Sicilian prosecutor named Calogero Ferrara was in his office…

Leggere in Italiano T he target of the Egyptian police, that day in November 2015, was the street vendors selling socks, $2 sunglasses and fake jewelry, who clustered under the arcades of the elegant century-old buildings of Heliopolis, a Cairo suburb. Such raids were routine, but these vendors…

In 2010, at the age of 81, the acclaimed novelist Ursula K. Le Guin started a blog . Blogs never seemed a likely destination for the writer, who by then had a long career in 20 th -century traditional publishing behind her. But Le Guin’s new book, No Time To Spare , which harvests a representative…

Stars Wars belongs to our dark past—a long, tyrannical epoch of fear, illogic, despotism, and demagoguery that our ancestors struggled desperately to overcome. Universal History Archive / Getty Images W e didn’t say “break the Internet” back in 1999, but if we did we could certainly say that…

Well, I boycotted "Episode I: The Phantom Menace" -- for an entire week. Why? What's to boycott? Isn't "Star Wars" good old fashioned sci-fi? Harmless fun? Some people call it "eye candy" -- a chance to drop back into childhood and punt your adult cares away for two hours, dwelling in a lavish…

Even as machines known as “deep neural networks” have learned to converse, drive cars, beat video games and Go champions , dream, paint pictures and help make scientific discoveries, they have also confounded their human creators, who never expected so-called “deep-learning” algorithms to work so…

"There was some juvenile enthusiasm in my style," Latour says. ULI DECK/PICTURE-ALLIANCE/DPA/AP IMAGES PARIS— French sociologist of science Bruno Latour, 70, has long been a thorn in the side of science. But in the age of “alternative facts,” he’s coming to its defense. Latour, who retired last…

At the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, Istanbul. Photo by Guillen Perez/Flickr In 1966, just over 50 years ago, the distinguished Canadian-born anthropologist Anthony Wallace confidently predicted the global demise of religion at the hands of an advancing science: ‘belief in supernatural powers…

H ave you ever been walking in a dark alley and seen something that you thought was a crouching person, but it turned out to be a garbage bag or something similarly innocuous? Me too. Have you ever seen a person crouching in a dark alley and mistaken it for a garbage bag? Me neither. Why does the…

One day, detecting phenomenal cosmic events through gravitational waves will not make the news. W hen I heard the news, I emailed my editor with my immediate reaction: “Bummer.” For the fourth time now, humans have directly detected the collision of two black holes. The violent merger occurred over…

Each October, chemists, physicians, poets, physicists, and peacemakers delight in what has become almost a sacramental ritual for intellectuals: the annual Nobel Prize announcements. Like nature itself, the well-choreographed and publicized set of rituals surrounding the prize comes complete with…