How Pants Went From Banned to Required in the Roman Empire
600 years in the history of trousers.
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More Rules for Launching Nukes Won't Make U.S. Safer
It's not just about Trump: Decades of worry about a president's ability to strike alone haven't returned a better solution.
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How to Read a Chocolate Bar Label to Buy the Best Chocolate
Buying a bar of chocolate shouldn’t be an academic exercise, but with the maze of labels available these days, it’s hard not to stand dumbfounded in the…
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Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal | Quanta Magazine
Two mathematicians have proved that two different infinities are equal in size, settling a long-standing question. Their proof rests on a surprising link between the sizes of infinities and the complexity of mathematical theories.
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Cuba mystery: Even Castro baffled by harm to US diplomats
HAVANA (AP) — Raul Castro seemed rattled. The Cuban president sent for the top American envoy in the country to address grave concerns about a spate of U.S. diplomat
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How to Become the Best Programmer in the World
I have no idea how to become the best programmer in the world. So I figured out the best way to get ahead is to learn from the all time…
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Meet the Juggalos Joining the Far-Left Resistance
You may know Juggalos as a close-knit family of Faygo-spraying, facepaint-loving fans of the Detroit hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse. But…
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Seven Days of Heroin
The Enquirer sent 60 journalists to cover an ordinary week in this extraordinary time. This is what an epidemic looks like.
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This is what an epidemic looks like
The Enquirer sent 60 journalists to cover an ordinary week in this extraordinary time. This is what an epidemic looks like.
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Work Begins Soon to Bring Haiti into 'Silk Road' After China Invests US$30 billion to Develop Infrastructure
"Silk Road" work is expected to begin December on projects for clean water, sanitation, public bathrooms, electricity, communications, and more to Port-au-Prince.
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Parents Who Pay to Be Watched
Shep was 13 when he started stealing from his parents. It began not long after he and his siblings moved with their parents to a suburb north of New York City,…
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I downloaded an app. And suddenly, was part of the Cajun Navy.
I read an article about the Cajun Navy, and on a whim, downloaded Zello, the walkie-talkie-type app they used to communicate.
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Taking Risks to Move the Culture Forward
An interview with Claire Lehmann, founder of an online magazine for free thought
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Restaurant Guide 1: Restaurants should not look like (most) restaurants
Epistemic Status: Full Power Related: Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons, An Economist Gets Lunch Follow-Up: Restaurant Guide 2: Pizza Conceptually Related More Than You Might Think: Short-Term…
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A bright and shiny hell - Charlie's Diary
( Apologies for blogging so infrequently this month. I'm currently up to my elbows in The Labyrinth Index , with a tight deadline to hit if the book's going to…
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The Calculated Madness of Marc-Andre Leclerc
"He can deal with the runouts, the old pro, the licheny rock, the missing bolts...he can go ground-up on routes that other people wouldn’t contemplate.”
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How Do You Decode a Hapax? (Also, What’s a Hapax?)
It's a word that only appears once in a work, author's oeuvre, or an entire language's written record.
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Overcoming Bias : Forager v Farmer, Elaborated
Seven years ago, after a year of reading up on forager lives, I first started to explore a forager vs. farmer axis: A lot of today’s political disputes come…
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15 Percent? 20 Percent? It Doesn’t Matter, Because Tipping Culture Is Fundamentally Broken
Even those who earn their living via tips despise them
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Lego grew too fast for its own good and now it’s paying the price
The revamp will include layoffs, cost cuts, and an emphasis on digital products.
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Money-for-water programs work — but for how long?
In the Colorado River Basin, a pilot project wins over skeptical farmers and ranchers.
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The Extraordinary Case of Mr Yamazaki – Solomon Kingsnorth – Medium
What happened when a Japanese headteacher imported his ‘Hitaisho’ teaching method to a rural Cornish primary school?
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The Problem with the Mutation-Centric View of Cancer - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Smoking is doing to the lung what the dinosaur-killing meteor did to Earth. It’s stimulating evolution—somatic cell evolution—that…
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What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?: Lists by Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly & Other Forward-Thinking Minds
One particularly distressing hallmark of late modernity can be characterized as a cultural loss of the future.
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