Is America (Really) Collapsing?
The Essence of Prosperity and Decline
Close
The End of the American Experiment
It’s Over. So What Can the World Learn?
America and the Axis of Idiots
Is Human Civilization Doomed Because People are Just Idiots?
Kamala Harris Is Biden’s VP Pick — Here’s What It Means For The Election And Beyond
Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate today. Here’s a look at what this choice mea…
Advertisement
How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
This coronavirus is here for the long haul — here’s what scientists predict for the next months and years.
Tom Shippey · Did they even hang bears? What made the Vikings tick? · LRB 13 August 2020
The Vikings, for all their strange customs and unknowable psychology, were more like us than we might like to admit. But...
Making of British & Exotic Mineralogy
Have you ever had an idea that sticks with you? One popped into my head when I stumbled across James Sowerby’s massive collection of mineral illustrations from the nineteenth century. I naively wondered how they would look arranged by color in a big collage and spent the next three and a half months making it happen with British & Exotic Mineralogy…and learning new levels of patience along the way.
-
America’s Enduring Caste System
Credit... Photo illustration by Chris Burnett Feature Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that…
-
Ellen DeGeneres: How the talk show host's nice reputation turned toxic
Ellen DeGeneres ’s reputation as the perpetually sunny, rug-cutting host of daytime TV hit The Ellen DeGeneres Show has been shifting for a few years, sparked…
- Advertisement
-
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave
Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let’s hope the control panel is up to scratch. Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous “2x2 decorated slope” is a LEGO minifigure’s interface to the world. These iconic, low-resolution designs are the perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design. Armed with 52 different bricks, let’s see what they can teach us about the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces. Welcome to...
-
NBA Players Are Slowly but Surely Adapting to Bubble-Game Differences
Virtual fans may have seemed like the biggest in-arena changes players would face in Orlando, but overheard barbs, technical fouls, and differences in shooting sight lines have also required some getting used to
-
Number Fever: The Pepsi Contest That Became a Deadly Fiasco
Marily So, a woman in her early fifties with graying hair, runs a sari-sari store out of her one-room home in a concrete building beside a railway track in…
-
A nun on the radical possibilities of Christianity
A conversation about love and suffering in the Christian tradition
-
The Winter Will Be Worse
When socializing outside gets harder in much of the U.S., daily life will get more dismal, and the virus might spread even further.
-
-
Training Young Doctors: The Current Crisis
When I started my first year of residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1998, there were 20 percent more patient admissions per intern in my residency program than there had been just three years earlier. The sheer number and complexity of my patients was nearly overwhelming—and I was worried that at best, they were not getting the care they had a right to expect, and at worst, that they were not safe.
-
I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all.
-
This Is Not The DRY You Are Looking For
Something went terribly wrong. We took an insightful principle about knowledge management and turned it into code nonsense.
-
Why It’s so Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices
WeWork offers freelancers a chic workspace and beer on tap—but are people productive?
-
Do We Believe in U.F.O.s? That’s the Wrong Question
Reporting on the Pentagon program that’s investigating unidentified flying objects is not about belief. It’s about a vigilant search for facts.
-
An Oral History of Quokka, the Company that (Almost) Shook Up Sports
For a moment, one of the hottest companies in sports media was a Silicon Valley startup named after something looking like a cat-sized kangaroo. Founded in 1995 by beloved Australian sailor John Be…
-
Sierra Club examines racist past, painful legacy of John Muir
The Sierra Club on Wednesday said it would examine its "substantial role" in perpetuating white supremacy and denounced the racist actions of environmentalist icon John Muir, a prominent figure in the preservation of America's wilderness.
-
How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger
At the top of the world, the Inuit culture has developed a sophisticated way to sculpt kids' behavior without yelling or scolding. Could discipline actually be playful?
-
How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, the runtime, and the call stack
As JavaScript is getting more and more popular, teams are leveraging its support on many levels in their stack - front-end, back-end…
-
Artificial Intelligence Is the Hope 2020 Needs
Your AI bartender will serve you now. Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images Europe Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images Europe This year is likely to be…
-
Five common mistakes writing react components (with hooks) in 2020
The most common mistakes I found while writing react components, why they are mistakes and how to avoid or fix them.
