Donald Trump is fixated on a vision of masculine, blue-collar employment. But the retail sector has long had a far greater impact on American employment – and checkout-line technology is putting it at risk
“Freud,” a critical biography by Frederick Crews, asks why the creator of a scientifically delegitimized blueprint of the mind still carries so much sway.
For many years I lived in Eugene, Oregon, also known as “track-town USA” for its long tradition in track and field. Each summer…
At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size, means two billion different people used Facebook in the preceding month. It is hard to grasp . . .
At least the line at the taqueria will be shorter if nearly all of the Bay Area’s renters take off. The poll of 24,000 renters in 50 cities found that most tenants in most cities have eyes elsewhere.
Set within the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada, the Tahoe Twirl is a 4-5 day bikepacking loop that circumnavigates the vast and mesmerising Lake Tahoe.
This is the sixth installment in a series where we ask female engineers questions and share their candid, anonymous responses. In this post, we did something a bit different: we asked engineers to answer questions about the recent memo by former Google engineer James Damore. There’s been a lot of an
Evidence that undermines the "election hack" narrative should get more attention.
We must stop fucking it up for the amazing women in tech!
Donald Trump is never more at home than he is on the links. But, as with everything in the life of a President, his relationship with the game—and the
Did you know that in every language, the most frequent word occurs twice as often as the second most frequent word? This phenomenon called 'Zipf's law' is more than one century old, but until now, scientists have not been able to elucidate it exactly. Sander Lestrade, a linguist at Radboud University in The Netherlands, proposes a new solution to this notorious problem in PLOS ONE.
To maintain a grip on reality, the brain must question its expectations
His threats against North Korea expose the many dangers of the White House's post-9/11 powers. Here's what Congress must do.
Don't be taken in by the memo’s faux-reasonable tone.
A wealthy patron and a trio of grandmasters are coming for Bobby Fischer’s legacy.
In a world of bullies and machos, Angela Merkel keeps ending up on top. Andreas Kluth, our editor-in-chief, deconstructs how.
Yes, they're hard to do. But our narrow moral vocabulary for describing non-professional pursuits is making our lives worse.
Praia do Norte's enormous surf was once greatly feared by the townspeople, but now it’s becoming their greatest resource
In Portland, a supposed beacon of progressive politics, the practice of using prisoner work crews is painted as a win-win – but that’s not how some see it
You’ve probably seen the Watson commercials, where what looks like a sentient box interacts with celebrities like Bob Dylan , Carrie Fisher , and Serena…
With his marriage to Norma Levor over, Claude Shannon was a bachelor again, with no attachments, a small Greenwich Village apartment,…
