On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training. We sat in three rows, each of us parked b
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Facebook and the Fires The toxic smoke is a bleak backdrop and an apt metaphor for where Silicon Valley finds itself. Nov. 15, 2018 The San Francisco skyline, obscured by smoke and haze on Wednesday.
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I n the 158th year of the American civil war , also known as 2018, the Confederacy continues its recent resurgence. Its victims include black people, of course, but also immigrants, Jews, Muslims, Lat
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Over the last year, Ideo’s philosophy of “ design thinking “–a codified, six-step process to solve problems creatively–has come under fire. It’s been called bullshit, the opposite of inclusive design
Editor’s Note: Ten days after this story about the death of Laura Levis was published on BostonGlobe.com, the leaders of Somerville hospital’s parent company, Cambridge Health Alliance, met with her h
The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen The Khashoggi killing has cast light on Saudi tactics in Yemen, where an economic war has pushed millions to the brink of starvation. The Tragedy of Saudi Ar
❗️ This essay no longer reflects the current state of Apple Maps ⚠️ Tap or click any image to enlarge Perhaps the biggest surprise about Apple’s new map is how small it is: Four years in the making, i
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisati
Why Are Antiques So Cheap? Because Everyone Lives in the Kitchen Islands with stools are an increasingly common feature of contemporary kitchens, marginalizing formal dining rooms — and the furniture
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Technology companies need to diversify their hiring practices to include more people from backgrounds in philosophy and psychology if they want to tackle the problem of misinformation online, the head
Rebecca McCarthy | Longreads | October 2018 | 13 minutes (3,497 words) The Strand is the largest and most divisive of New York City’s independent bookstores. For its customers, it’s a literary landmar
In the spring of 2011, a small group of engineers working on a secretive project at Google received an e-mail from a colleague. It’s finally happening , the note read. Anthony is going to get fired .
A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley “I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.” By Oct. 26, 2018 Leer en español 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 SAN FRANCISCO — The people w
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Essay My Very Personal Taste of Racism Abroad For an African-American woman, a study-abroad program in Italy led to an eye-opening experience. “Disgusting black women” were the stinging words of one r
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Your Kid’s Apps Are Crammed With Ads In a new study of the most downloaded apps for children ages 5 and younger, researchers found advertising in almost all of them. By Oct. 30, 2018 Android toys, on
The 911 call came in at 5:55 p.m. on September 29, 2012. A woman had fallen from a ledge in Rocky Mountain National Park; she was alive but unconscious. “I need an alpine mountain rescue team immediat
How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations Fifteen murder and sexual assault cases have been solved since April with a single genealogy website. This is how GEDmatch w
The UN this week released a report urging world governments to take immediate action to mitigate the effects of the coming climate catastrophe. It is no longer a case of whether catastrophe is coming.
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I have recently been talking at small and mid-size companies, sharing engineering best practices I see us use at Uber, which I would recommend any tech company adopt as they are growing. The one topic
Walmart says it now has a better system for pinpointing which batches of leafy green vegetables might be contaminated. Credit... Charlie Bennet for The New York Times From Farm to Blockchain: Walmart
In south-central Utah , where the topography is spectacular, desolate, and extreme, the pessimistic tradition in place-names runs strong. Head south from Poverty Flat and you’ll end up in Death Hollow
Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners
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In Praise of Mediocrity The pursuit of excellence has infiltrated and corrupted the world of leisure. Sept. 29, 2018 Credit... Izhar Cohen By Mr. Wu is the author of “The Attention Merchants: The Epic
Manhattan, the vertical city, greets newcomers as a sheer rockface. To even begin the ascent requires agility, nerve, and a secure base camp. If you can’t establish that base—the right apartment—the p
En 1972, quatre jeunes scientifiques du Massachusetts Institute of Technologie (MIT) rédigent à la demande du Club de Rome un rapport intitulé The Limits to Growth (les Limites à la croissance) . Celu
Children who read regularly for pleasure, who are avid and self-directed readers, are the holy grail for parents and educators. Reading for pleasure has considerable current and future benefits: Recre
Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo Media Group) Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social