The learning never stops. For several years I’ve endeavored to understand the flavor science and history behind Jamaican rum’s unique hogo. As part of that I’ve visited every Jamaican rum distillery,

‘It is always a bit troubling in the current environment when websites don’t really indicate what they’re all about,’ said Matt Gertz.Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA In March this year, the small Illinois town of Hinsdale, in the western Chicago suburbs, was facing a crisis. The village’s district…

Since the early 2000s, Indonesia’s continuously growing internet economy has made the country one of Southeast Asia’s most lucrative markets. This has caught the attention of the nation’s wealthiest f

When it comes to shopping in a pandemic, turns out the two things people crave are comfort and convenience. It’s why Amazon sales are projected to see a year-over-year sales jump of nearly 22% in the first quarter. It’s why it feels like everyone with an Instagram account has been baking sourdough…

A still from the 1963 film of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.Photograph: Ronald Grant F or centuries western culture has been permeated by the idea that humans are selfish creatures. That cynical

Given the dozens of new bottlings released every month, the limited amount of alcohol our livers can (and should) take, as well as our all too narrow budgets, orientation is key when it comes to buyin

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Earlier this month, what could have been the worst aviation accident in history was narrowly averted. An Air Canada pilot mistakenly lined up to land on a taxiway , instead of a parallel runway, at Sa

If you’re headed into some important meeting, you might down a cup or two of coffee without thinking much of it, hoping the caffeine will provide your brain with an extra boost. But in his new book on personality science, psychologist Brian Little suggests that for introverts, this strategy may…

Albert Einstein was 16 years old when he first flirted with the idea of special relativity. He was a daydreamer. The pioneering theory that lead him to establish the foundation of modern physics was actually envisioned in one of his many famous thought experiments. He wondered, specifically, what…

Learning a new language is hard — especially if you're an adult, especially if you're busy, and especially if the language is based on really different sounds than your native tongue. Hard, but not impossible. In Scientific American , Veronique Greenwood highlights two recent studies that suggest…

Leer en español Dr. James is a leading ophthalmologist at a major medical clinic. Passionate about medicine, he wanted to hire someone to run the business operations of his practice. He carefully revi

Who, Me? Today is Monday the 58th of March 2020. As a service to stop the days blurring into one, take a moment to enjoy a tale of NetWare, Blu Tack and a broken pencil in today's Who, Me? reader confession. This time we return to the 1990s, and to a region of Australia that our protagonist, a…

Published March 23, 2020 in Statuspage We learned the hard way so you don’t have to. Published March 23, 2020 in Statuspage Product Marketing Manager A lot of teams are asking us about how to do incident management when you’re suddenly remote. We understand. Going remote can be scary, and few things…

Bartending, from the outside, can seem incredibly complicated. With a dizzying array of cocktail names and corresponding recipes to memorize, obscure-sounding ingredients, infusions, equipment and for

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N ews of the death of Margaret Mary Vojtko, an adjunct professor of French at Duquesne University, went viral in 2013. The circumstances of her final months painted a jarring picture of how dire a professor’s living conditions could be. Before Vojtko learned her semester-to-semester contract would…

My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind. I saw this tweet yesterday that said that not everyone has an internal monologue in their head. All my life, I could hear my voice in my head and speak in full sentences as if I was talking…

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept" 01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140 Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept. [Laughter] So at a mathematical level this is an obvious truism.…

“My suggestion is that you try to contact Michael Fogg… he is definitely the most knowledgeable living person regarding the early derivation of navy rum.” Historians live for the moment when the heavy

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opinion Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast I remember once reading another writer’s description of the sensory thrill in the opening of a new whiskey, the anticipation generated by the weight of the bottle in your hand, the sparkling play of light on the bubbles in the neck, the crisp snap of the…

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Widow Jane’s flagship 10-year-old straight bourbon is a common sight in hip Brooklyn bars and, according to the company, it can now be found in more than 30…

Yasser Chalid / Getty My 92-year-old father fell one Saturday night a few months ago. My mother could not pick him up. Her brother was not answering his cellphone, so she called 911. An ambulance crew brought him to the hospital. The emergency-room physician ordered a CT scan. A spot on the scan…

Bastiaan Slabbers / NurPhoto / Getty Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . When, in January 2016, I wrote that despite being a lifelong Republican who worked in the previous three GOP administrations, I would…

AP Images The key features: quick action, extensive testing, and relentless tracking. Mar 12, 2020 AP Images I began writing this at Raffles Hotel, a gleaming white pinnacle of Singapore’s British colonial past. Immaculately renovated over the past two and a half years, it is truly one of the…

Hermes Images / AGF / Universal Images Group / Getty The flight that put the Boeing Company on course for disaster lifted off a few hours after sunrise. It was good flying weather—temperatures in the mid-40s with a slight breeze out of the southeast—but oddly, no one knew where the 737 jetliner was…

Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty This past week, with some fanfare, Facebook announced its own version of the Supreme Court: a 40-member board that will make final decisions about user posts that Facebook has taken down. The announcement came after extended deliberations that have been described as…

In the past two years I've given and watched several technical talks, and they are not all created equal. Recently I met with Teuta H Hyseni to talk about an upcoming talk she was planning (securing AI and ML, very interesting!), and afterwards I made several notes about general tips for technical…

Wayne Mills How much sleep do you get each night? Most of us know that eight hours is the recommended amount, but with work, family, and social commitments often consuming more than 16 hours of the day, it can seem impossible to make the math work. Perhaps you feel that you operate just fine on four…

Books of The Times Credit... Patricia Wall/The New York Times Amazon Apple Books Barnes and Noble Local Booksellers When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Toward the end of “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” the…

In 2010, Steve Jobs announced in a blog post that Apple would no longer support Adobe Flash. At the time, Flash was a popular development tool for creating animations, web games, and other internet applications. Shortly after his announcement, the use of Flash would decline steeply—in 2011, 28.5% of…

Departments of Motor Vehicles in states around the country are taking drivers' personal information and selling it to thousands of businesses, including private investigators who spy on people for a profit, Motherboard has learned. DMVs sell the data for an array of approved purposes, such as to…

PHys Ed Physically fit young adults have healthier white matter in their brains and better thinking skills than young people who are out of shape. Credit... Jeenah Moon for The New York Times Physically fit young adults have healthier white matter in their brains and better thinking skills than…

I currently work in Silicon Valley for the Government where one of my roles is to engage, cultivate and recruit technology talent for Singapore. Hardly a day goes by without a Singaporean employer reaching out to me to discuss the tech talent shortage. One gets the sense that the ambition and speed…

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O n the first floor of a nondescript 1,000 sq metre industrial unit in Berlin’s Steglitz district, four workers are cautiously placing pregnant queen ants into test tubes in order to dispatch them across Europe. This is Antstore , the world’s first specialist ant shop, a business with around two…