The Verge homepage OnOn the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan’s eastern coast, c

This article is largely based on a master class I held for the entire team at Flying Bisons, an amazing agency in Poland with whom I’ve been fortunate to collaborate on a couple of occasions, most rec

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By Oliver Burkeman Aug. 6, 2021 11:12 am ET Certain forms of busyness can be delightful. Who wouldn’t want to live in Busytown, the setting of the iconic 1960s children’s books by the American illustrator Richard Scarry? His grocer cats and firefighting pigs are certainly busy. Nobody in Busytown is…

We’ve all got inanimates we treasure. 007 and Q’s loot. Static Shock with the saucer. Kim Possible’s Kimmunicator. Let’s throw Squidward’s clarinet into the ring too (if his pineapple-dwelling neighbo

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Open this article in the New York Times Audio app on iOS. LONDON — Sitting on a sofa in a glass-walled room, a 2-year-old in a blue T-shirt is riveted by an episode of “CoComelon,” an animated cartoon series full of vivid colors, cherubic children and earworm songs like “Miss Polly Had a Dolly” and…

Transcript Emmanuel Vaughan-LeeIn your latest book, Ways of Being, you explore the many types of intelligences that exist in the more-than-human worlds—intelligences that we need to learn from and int

Soon, we won’t need to write much any longer. Artificial Intelligence will do it for us. What should we do with all the free time? Paint? Play chess? Write music? Well, AI could do that for us, too. M

„GRB 221009A“ heißt das Ereignis, das vor drei Wochen vom Swift-Satelliten der NASA im Sternbild Pfeil registriert wurde. Das Kürzel „GRB“ steht für „Gamma-Ray Burst“ – also für einen kurzzeitigen Ene

An old warehouse in the trendy part of town. Swipe-card access restricted to designers only. Translucent walls covered with sticky notes. A ludicrously expensive coffee machine. These are just some of

Andrew Reinerteaches men’s studies, cultural studies and writing at Towson University in Maryland, where he offers the seminar ‘The Changing Face of Masculinity’. He is the author of Better Boys, Bett

Ein Mann ermordet seine Familie. Er erschießt seine drei Kinder, zehn, acht und vier Jahre alt. Und seine Frau. Schließlich tötet er sich selbst. Der Abschiedsbrief des Mannes deutet darauf hin, dass

When it comes to creating great experiences, company culture is key Published inPrototypr · 7 min read· Jan 22, 2019 -- Illustration: venimo/Getty Images In the sprawling suburbs of Chicago, there exi

Illustration by Raul Gil for this article. Nobody warned me how challenging being the Head of Design at an early-stage startup would be. Then again, nobody warned me how much I would love the challeng

OK. I’ll do this for another year. TBM 2021. 52 posts this year. I have 2020 up here, and an ebook version for sale (or you can make your own). How many roadmaps are the result of rushed, big-batch pl

Guest Essay Lebanon as We Once Knew It Is Gone Sept. 3, 2021 Electricity is a luxury many in Lebanon can’t afford. Credit... Bryan Denton for The New York Times By Ms. Mounzer is a Lebanese writer and

Sendungshinweis „Help“, das Ö1-Konsumentenmagazin, jeden Samstag um 11.40 Uhr in Radio Ö1. Auch als Podcast. Das vorige Jahr war in Österreich zu warm, zu trocken und zu stürmisch. Im Frühjahr gab es

The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces.

As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. Beyond a national plan for the COVID-19 pandemic, progressives w

When the country went into lockdown last year and the schools closed, I made a parenting decision. I overturned my previous objections and ordered the kids a trampoline. It has been the source of more

Open this article in the New York Times Audio app on iOS. On the morning after Juliane Diller fell to earth, she awoke in the deep jungle of the Peruvian rainforest dazed with incomprehension. Just before noon on the previous day — Christmas Eve, 1971 — Juliane, then 17, and her mother had boarded a…

Like most 25-year-olds, Julia Rozovsky wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with her life. She had worked at a consulting firm, but it wasn’t a good match. Then she became a researcher for two professors at Harvard, which was interesting but lonely. Maybe a big corporation would be a better fit. Or…

There’s a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it. Imagine if you, as a budding productivity enthusia

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When I finally puked on the fourth night, I felt an odd sense of pride. Inside the loud, stuffy ceremony room, people were laughing, crying, chanting, gyrating, and, yes, vomiting, around me. When my

Ma-Lin, Scholar Reclining and Watching Rising Clouds, Poem by Wang Wei, 1225–75. The Cleveland Museum of Art A Ghost’s Life by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Writer Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher who

Who's my boss (anyway) ? (This is a translated and edited transcript from my talk with the title "Wer ist eigentlich mein*e Chef*in" held at Scrumclub Dornbirn on 14.10.2020) Just a quick check-in: Wh

Nov 12, 2011 The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering

A week or so ago Colgate unveiled Hum — a smart toothbrush that “guides consumers to brush better and to build healthier habits without sacrificing fun for functionality.” Hum doesn’t look or feel lik

The honeymoon for Extinction Rebellion, the hugely influential climate activist group, ended on Oct. 17, 2019. From its launch, a year earlier, until that day, it seemed like the group might have crac

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Google has built a complete monopoly on search. Amazon uses the sales data of its resellers to continuously expand and solidify market dominance. Facebook copies the competitors that they can’t bully