Borough pride Jay-Z helped design the Brooklyn Nets’ new logos. Calvin Klein Collection suit, $1,295, and shirt, $195; (212) 292-9000. Photograph by Cass Bird. Fashion editor: Sara Moonves. It’s difficult to know what to ask a rapper. It’s not unlike the difficulty (I imagine) of being a rapper.…

WHCD Obama’s Best White House Correspondents’ Jokes In his last appearance at the annual dinner, Obama let loose on the 2016 candidates, snuck in a Game of Thrones reference, and had some mild critiques for Prince George. See the 2016 W.H.C.D.’s Best-Dressed Once a year the White House goes…

Once upon a time, Microsoft dominated the tech industry; indeed, it was the wealthiest corporation in the world. But since 2000, as Apple, Google, and Facebook whizzed by, it has fallen flat in every arena it entered: e-books, music, search, social networking, etc., etc. Talking to former and…

Story highlights It is 2011 and I'm sitting in the Palais des Congres in Montreal, watching anthropologists talk about structural inequality. The American Anthropological Association meeting is held annually to showcase research from around the world, and like thousands of other anthropologists, I…

In 2009, Ford brought its new supermini, the Fiesta, over from Europe in a brave attempt to attract the attention of young Americans. It passed out 100 of the cars to influential bloggers for a free six-month test-drive, with just one condition: document your experience online, whether you love the…

Seven years ago I was living in the East Village undergoing a significantly delayed adolescence, drinking and drugging a little too much, and indulging in all the sidewalk freak-show opportunities that New York City has to offer. Back then I was hanging around a lot with a drag king I had met…

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1. South Phoenix is quiet, and I’m up early, drinking coffee at a round kitchen table, staring out the window at morning sunlight, unfinished yard, empty pool. My husband, John Woten, and I are working on getting the yard planted and filling that pool. I try to convince myself that’s the fun part of…

Ten minutes into his dive, Dave Shaw started to look for the bottom. Utter blackness pressed in on him from all sides, and he directed his high-intensity light downward, hoping for a flash of rock or mud. Shaw, a 50-year-old Aussie, was in an alien world, more than 800 feet below the surface pool…

Every now and then, I read something that hits me smack in the stomach. This cross-post is one of those. Originally on Quinn Zimmerman’s blog “These New Boots” , the post came over with an email commenting on “that moment where you get the aid bitchslap… when you cross from idealism to realism… [a]…

Highway 16 Highway 16 at sunrise Highway 16 map A map of Highway 16 Don't hitchhike billboard Highway 16 billboard Madison Scott Madison Scott went missing in 2011 Missing girl Auger-Keyesapamatoa Audrey Auger-Keyesapamatoa holds a photo of her missing daughter, Aielah FOR GENERATIONS, the young…

How to Quit Drinking Alcohol There are better things in life than alcohol, but alcohol makes up for not having them. — Terry Pratchett My maternal grandparents were both alcoholics. It’s for this reason that I can’t remember my grandpa’s funeral: I was only four. This is also why my grandma has…

Understanding Beliefs I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. — Bertrand Russell A belief system is like an API for personal growth. “API” is computer geek speak for Application Programming Interface . It refers to the set of abstractions on which a piece of software is built.…

We’ve previously explored what it means to be human and what defines a “person.” Much of our understanding of personhood hinges on what we call “character” — but what, exactly, is it? Here is an omnibus of definitions and insights from notable cross-disciplinary thinkers, from philosophy to…

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Get on a Southwest flight to anywhere, buy shoes from Zappos.com, pants from Nordstrom, groceries from Whole Foods, anything from Costco, a Starbucks espresso, or a Double-Double from In N' Out, and you'll get a taste of these brands’ vibrant cultures. Culture is a balanced blend of human…

I have a special talent for making women cry. It’s not intentional, it just happens. I remember, one year during college I was an RA, and one Saturday I had a series of back-to-back meetings with my residents to try to resolve all kinds of problems. I hate my roommate! I just failed my test. What…

Jazz musician Dave Goldberg wrote a pointed and darkly humorous open letter to LA club owners that I thought was worth sharing. In it, he argues that it’s actually a counterproductive practice for venues to book bands who are willing to work for free. And when I say “counterproductive,” I mean it’s…

(Read this article as: PDF | ePub | Mobi ) Beginning about a year ago, I became obsessed with the question of whether a universal masculinity exists or not. Are the traits which we consider “manly” hardwired into us as a species? Or are they socially constructed for some specific purpose? Or maybe…

How to Deal With Negative Emotions The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. — Oscar Wilde A while back I read a book called Real-Time Relationships , by Stefan Molyneux. It’s a book about creating relationships that are healthy, enjoyable, loving, and virtuous. The author hosts a…

Dean Windass says he has tried to kill himself twice. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I 'm not sure how old I was when I was first instructed that boys don't cry – at a guess, maybe six or seven. Once it began, it came at me from all angles: family, teachers, friends, the myriad…

SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills…

How to “Hot Tub” an Online Community By Caleb Clark, January 12th, 1999. Email listservs, online communities, and social networks often parallel in person group growth patterns and grow very fast, too fast. Or sometimes a community can get hijacked by members who have agenda’s of their own, or are…

In 2011, as in 2010, America was in a technical recovery but continued to suffer from disastrously high unemployment. And through most of 2011, as in 2010, almost all the conversation in Washington was about something else: the allegedly urgent issue of reducing the budget deficit. This misplaced…

(Photo: Africa Within ) Total read time (bolded sections) = 5 minutes Total read time (all) = 40 minutes I am embarrassed to tell you that, up until three weeks ago, I had never read Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham City Jail . It is, without a doubt, one of the best case…

I wrote a book on this subject but it focused on the management and leadership aspects of IT — not the technical stuff. Now I’m looking at doing a two-day class on IT for business executives. I’ll include the stuff from my book, but I’m trying to identify the technical topics that I should also…

*** In whatever dream I was having there’s a crash above me, and my body jumps and wakes me up. It’s pitch dark. Philip said there are monkeys that play on the roof at night. The generator must have gone off because my fan is dead and it’s sweltering inside. I’m being bitten all over, so I fumble…