America’s response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern. We mourn. Offer thoughts and prayers. Speculate about the motives. And then—even as no developed country endures a homicid

On May 1, 2003, the day President George W. Bush landed on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in front of the massive “Mission Accomplished” sign, I was in Baghdad performing what had become a daily ritual. I

Op-Ed Contributor John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment A musket from the 18th century, when the Second Amendment was written, and an assault rifle of today. Rarely in my lifetime have I seen

They Push. They Protest. And Many Activists, Privately, Suffer as a Result. Ashley Yates is a Black Lives Matter organizer in Oakland, Calif. Credit... Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times For mo

Posted on March 25, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi The San Francisco “March For Our Lives.” Photo by Gregory Varnum, used via Creative Commons license. Click on photo for original. A few thoughts on the M

As I opened the CT scan last week to read the next case, I was baffled. The history simply read “gunshot wound.” I have been a radiologist in one of the busiest trauma centers in the United States for

I’ve been testing Apple’s new HomePod for the last week or so, and this is the first product review I’ve written that could be accurately summarized in the length of a tweet, and an old-school 140-cha

Posted in: Nothing to Do With Travel , Personal Essay Last night, I made cinnamon rolls. I’m not a huge fan of cinnamon rolls, per se, but this recipe was included in Mario Batali’s sexual misconduct

We’ve moved. After 7 years in the townhome we rented – longer than I’ve lived anywhere in my entire, Rand and I moved into our first house. It wasn’t far – just across town, but I was surprised by how

by January 25, 2018 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net publish

This past summer, a heated debate broke out about a tool used in courts across the country to help make bail and sentencing decisions. It’s a controversy that touches on some of the big criminal justi

4 min read · Oct 20, 2017 -- Directing the Opening scene of “Inside You.” Photo by Chris Cafaro. My first feature film “Inside You” — a comedy about a couple that switches bodies after a night with a

With a few minor exceptions, there are really only two ways to say “tea” in the world. One is like the English term— té in Spanish and tee in Afrikaans are two examples. The other is some variation of

Over the last couple of days, there has been a lot of discussion about a pair of security vulnerabilities nicknamed Spectre and Meltdown . These affect all modern Intel processors, and (in the case of

A guide to how—and why—it works Published in OkCupid Dating Blog · 6 min read · Dec 11, 2017 -- This article was edited on 1/4/18 to reflect recent updates. The entire dating landscape has changed and

How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt George Papadopoulos was working as an energy consultant in London when the Trump campaign named him a foreign policy ad

The more popular a computer platform becomes, the more of a bind in which it inevitably finds itself. A platform is only “finished” when it is abandoned. It needs to evolve to remain relevant, but it’

Posted in: Attractions , City Guide , Food , Local Color , Restaurants I am not the first to discover Bar Luce . Designed by filmmaker Wes Anderson, it opened in 2015 and I did not learn of its existe

Analyse a story or script, and you can break down the narrative into parts: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution. Sex is much the same. Yet wh

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This guest post was written by Miles Currie. Miles is currently a post-baccalaureate researcher studying Type Ia supernova cosmology. This post represents Miles’ views and not the views of his employe

The history of Apple being doomed doesn’t necessarily repeat, but it does rhyme. Take the latest installment , from Professor Mohanbir Sawhney at the Kellogg School of Management (one of my former pro

The bra is a product sprung from a perceived necessity, and from an attempt to create necessity where there is none or very little. Courtesy Everett Collection Late one morning, in a house in Peru’s S

4 min read · Oct 16, 2017 -- A boat on a lake, honestly how do you choose art for something like this? // Viswanath Duvvuri/Flickr A friend of mine, who is a man, reached out to me privately earlier t

Published in Human Parts · 5 min read · Oct 9, 2017 -- A re you a man confused on how to treat the women you work with? Do you feel like if you can’t say or do *anything* you don’t know what to say or

Posted in: Food , Personal Essay , Random Musings , Restaurants “You never wrote about the curry plane.” “The … the curry plane?” He nods, pouting. I am confused. “Like, a plane of existence that cons

It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Three years in, the Apple Watch is still the Apple Watch. This wasn’t a foregone conclusion. When Apple introduced the Apple Watch in the fall

Disability Playing the Online Dating Game, in a Wheelchair Credit... Dadu Shin The first time I forayed into online dating, I let my wheelchair show just a little in my photos. The good guys, I hoped,

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. I’ve been surprised by the negative reactions I’ve seen to the idea of embedding cellular connectivity in an Apple Watch. Sure, there are plen

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Tuesday was a big day. iPhone X. iPhone 8. Apple TV 4K. Apple Watch Series 3. But the biggest product unveil of all? No contest: It was Apple

Apple Park and the Steve Jobs Theater Apple Park’s main building — the ring — is simply massive. Driving past it on the way to yesterday’s event, it was hard not to be awed. I arrived around 8:30 for

Homer used two adjectives to describe aspects of the colour blue: kuaneos , to denote a dark shade of blue merging into black; and glaukos, to describe a sort of ‘blue-grey’, notably used in Athena’s

Posted on August 22, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi In the wake of Kai Cole’s piece about Joss Whedon , and some of the reaction to it , I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a man in the public sp

Thanks to last week’s inadvertent release of an unredacted build of HomePod’s version of iOS, we know some things that we didn’t know before. One of those things is that the new edge-to-edge iPhone is

Lauren Yee’s play starts out straightforwardly enough: An actress playing Yee (Stephenie Soohyun Park) is rehearsing the play with an actor portraying the playwright’s father, Larry Yee (Francis Jue).

From busy rooflines to plastic shutters, mismatched windows to four-car garages, the McMansion has dominated the American suburban residential landscape for almost 40 years without a notable change in

So, here’s the thing. I love my iPad Mini. It is exceptionally portable, easy to use, and efficient atthe things it does well. I’ve never owned an iPad Pro—I’ve eschewed thenormal size iPad since the

Posted on June 26, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi The first time I personally encountered Harry Potter was not long after the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, came out. I was 30 and m

Posted on June 22, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi First, my initial thoughts, as rendered on Twitter. I know folks who'll likely die if this GOP health plan passes. But I guess the big tax cut I'll get ou