Once derided as being like a plastic bag with the erotic appeal of a jellyfish, the female condom is being reinvented as the next big thing in safe sex. Emily Anthes investigates. 1. Excitement In 1987, an American pharmaceutical executive called Mary Ann Leeper flew to Copenhagen to get a firsthand…

RT @higgis: The Wolfram Language. This is the coolest demo of a technology I’ve ever seen. Ever. Of anything. http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2014/02/24/starting-to-demo-the-wolfram-language/ (h/t @@simonianson

There has never been anything like the Saturn V , the launch vehicle that powered the United States past the Soviet Union to a series of manned lunar landings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The ro

FOR MORE #GLOBALPOV VIDEOS, VISIT: http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/globalpov/ It is time for America to reconsider who is dependent on welfare. Poverty is not only the lack of income and wealth but als

In the era of the Kindle, a book costs the same price as a sandwich. Dennis Johnson, an independent publisher, says that “Amazon has successfully fostered the idea that a book is a thing of minimal va

During the 1960s, a dirty, loaded word came into currency: Mafia. It signified one of the most terrifying forces on earth, the Italian-American faction of organized crime, and naturally the men who he

RT @jaredsinclair: I wrote about the rationale behind some of the unusual decisions I made when designing Unread: http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/75555794917/designing-unread

Photo Marc Andreessen, a co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Credit Keith Bedford/Reuters Editor’s note: Marc Andreessen’s venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has invest

Next post Previous post Generally speaking, I think it’s cheating to use what John Siracusa says as a topic for a blog post. I could get 2–3 posts out of almost any episode of Hypercritical or the Acc

Business When it comes to great magazine writing, what’s in a name? December 12, 2013 Saved Stories hobvias sudoneighm/Flickr I have had it with long-form journalism. By which I mean—don’t get me wron

TWELVE THOUSAND MILES. That’s how far it is from 17-year-old Gabriel Omar Santoro’s home in Argentina to Beijing. It’s a journey he’s made twice in the past year — but neither trip was for pleasure. G

Amidst all the well-deserved accolades celebrating the 30th anniversary of the original Macintosh , what has struck me is how very Apple that product — and the team that made it — was. For one thing,

Next time you’re at a pro sports game, car race or rock concert, take a look at the cameras the professional photographers are using. Guess what? They’re not taking pictures with their phones. They’re

RT @StevenLevy: Finally, I posted my own reminisce on eyewitnessing birth of Mac, and why 2014 isn't and is like 1984. http://t.co/wurqawfRhttp://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/macintosh-30th-anniversary/

Do you have any general thoughts about the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh? All I can say is, I think the Mac reinvented the personal-computer industry in the eighties, and Microsoft copied it in th

Thirty years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh, and we all learned why 1984 wasn’t going to be like 1984 . A lot has changed in 30 years, and yet even in as fast-moving a field as technology, Apple

Everything You’re Thinking About Nintendo Is Totally Wrong http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2014/01/nintendo-mobile/ This.

In 2013 there were 18.8 times more Windows PCs sold than Macs. This is a reduction in the Windows advantage from about 19.8x in 2012. This decline is mostly due to the more rapid decline in Windows PC

In his 2003 novel Pattern Recognition , William Gibson created a character named Cayce Pollard with an unusual psychosomatic affliction: She was allergic to brands. Even the logos on clothing were eno

The author, at "work" (Pete Souza/The White House) Before Thursday into Friday, my head cold got worse, so on Friday morning I walked down to a bar-cafe-restaurant in my neighborhood. I had been there

Apple attorneys are set to meet on Monday with U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, the latest chapter in a strange and nonsensical legal battle. The case in question involves another of America's biggest

The most impressive thing about meeting Philip Pullman is how unimposing he is. Renowned as a master of mythologies, casting a cultural shadow that stretches from Hollywood films to intellectual debates about atheism and faith, you’d expect his Oxfordshire house to be some kind of remote, brooding…

The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it’s started getting angry. I’ve noticed it in my text messages and online chats, where people use the period not simply to

This past October, just before the leaves changed, I went on a six-day hike through the mountains of Wakayama, in central Japan, tracing the path of an ancient imperial pilgrimage called the Kumano Ko

When we first looked at photo editing apps for the iPhone several years ago, VSCO was a clear frontrunner, with its wide range of gorgeous filters, deep editing tools, and easy export options. Last ye

The year was 2004. I was enrolled in ECE 466 at NCSU, a compiler optimization/scheduling class. I remember walking into the lecture hall and seeing far too many PowerBooks and white iBooks. This was t

I haven‘t always loved New York. I first visited New York City in 2002. It was, coincidentally, the 8-month anniversary of 9/11. Julia’s brother Joel and I had been in Providence scoping out jobs and apartments so we took the train to NYC for a couple of days, and we walked everywhere during that…

You are 200 miles directly above the Martian surface — looking down. This image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Jan. 27, 2010. (The color was added later.) What do we see? Well, sand,

You have been battered into a stupor of disaffection by a locust swarm of attack ads and unctuous doublespeak, courtesy of the most obnoxiously long campaign in history since the Crusades. Understood.

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Photo "Same Sex Love in India" edited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai. Credit Courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan Now that the Supreme Court has restored the 19 th -century ban on homosexuality, when all