Harvey Weinstein and Ben Affleck. (Todd Williamson/Invision for Producers Guild via Associated Press) Smoke is not weather. Let me tell you why I have said this. Weather is something you can do very little to prevent; you can only prepare for it and warn people about it and buy protective gear.…

On Thursday morning, I planned to write a pointed screed decrying President Trump’s propensity to view the military community as a problem he can buy off with a check. Then, on Thursday afternoon, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, himself a Gold Star father, decried the noxious politicization…

Last month, the NBC sitcom The Good Place returned for its second year after a first season that was widely praised as “ surreal and high-concept ” and “ ambitious and uniquely satisfying .” In the two-part pilot, the show introduced a woman named Eleanor (Kristen Bell) who dies and finds herself in…

Story highlights Nicole Stamp: Decent men can do many things to improve the climate for women Here's what good men can do in the wake of #MeToo, she writes Nicole Stamp is a director, actor, and television host living in Toronto. Follow her at @nicolestamp . The views expressed in this commentary…

Johnny Depp. Edited Oct. 26, 2017, to add: When I published this post almost two weeks ago, I thought it would serve as a mental list of celebrity/Hollywood men to avoid — a kind of ethical shopping guide, if you will. I had no idea so many people would read and share it. It has been boosted by…

Around ten applications a day and a two year long waiting list. Scoring an internship at Swedish creative agency Snask is no piece of cake. Yet, browsing their website or stepping into their office at Skånegatan in Stockholm is like being served a pink and irresistible cake made of bold and playful…

Laurie Menser was a 7- or 8-year-old in Rockville, Md., when she wandered over to a neighbor's house, slipped a glass eye in her mouth and got the attention of the grown-ups in the room. Then she smacked the back of her head and stuck out her tongue — waiting for laughs. "They were appalled," she…

Quentin Tarantino, the Hollywood director most closely tied to Harvey Weinstein, has known for decades about the producer’s alleged misconduct toward women and now feels ashamed he did not take a stronger stand and stop working with him, he said in an interview. “I knew enough to do more than I…

In the course of a ten-month investigation, thirteen women interviewed said that, between the nineteen-nineties and 2015, Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them. Illustration by Oliver Munday; source photograph by Raymond Hall / GC Images via Getty This story was first published on…

A stock shot of a man sharing one of his many fascinating opinions. Photograph: Alamy E agle-eyed readers may have spotted I haven't been writing this column for a while. Roughly two people noticed its absence, until the other day when a paragraph in Private Eye claimed I'd asked Alan Rusbridger,…

I have been following the news and reading the accounts of women coming forward to talk about being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein and others. I had shelved my experience with Harvey far in the recesses of my mind, joining in the conspiracy of silence that has allowed this predator to prowl for so…

‘Yes, it’s hypocrisy, but it’s something more than that.’Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images N ow that our culture has finally decided to take violence against (some) women (somewhat) seriously, conversations that have long happened in hushed tones are taking place in the open. In recent weeks, men…

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JULY 27: Charlie Brooker the creator of Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ poses for a portrait during the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 27, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.(Photo by Maarten de Boer/Contour by Getty Images) Photo:…

At some point in 2006, or possibly late 2005, Noah Glass walked into our office all excited about something. That in itself isn’t news because Noah was always excited about something. Dude had an energy. Noah worked across the hall from us on the sixth floor of a old broke-ass building in South…

Interview and question techniques for UX researchers So it seems I have a thing for documentarians. If I ever have a celebrity crush, it’s on a geeky dude bumbling around the world talking to people on camera. I’m talking John Safran, Adam Richman, Louis Theroux. Sure, part of it is that I think…

I have had plenty of Harvey Weinsteins of my own over the years, enough to feel a sickening shock of recognition. Photograph by The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty The tale of Harvey Weinstein is now a thread that has tangled its waythrough Hollywood, connecting women, mostly actresses, in a…

In mid-August, Ronan Farrow, an NBC News contributor, had secured an interview with a woman who was willing to appear on camera, in silhouette, her identity concealed, and say Harvey Weinstein had raped her, according to four people with close knowledge of the reporting. It was a pivotal moment in a…

If you’re a user-centered designer, your resume should be too! Hiring designers is fun. I like seeing people’s work, and hearing them speak passionately about the cool stuff they’ve done. I like meeting other designers from Sydney. I like the “hire a designer” process — probably a lot more than I…

Meet the Camera Button, new in Luna Display Post update: RIP Camera Button Apple has never been afraid to take design risks. Earlier this year, Apple made headlines when it revealed a new iPhone design that left out the iconic Home button. Now, I’m all for simplification. But for the design…

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War…

Donald Trump in the Diplomatic Room at the White House, October 2, 2017. By Joshua Roberts/Reuters. At first it sounded like hyperbole, the escalation of a Twitter war. But now it’s clear that Bob Corker’s remarkable New York Times interview —in which the Republican senator described the White House…

flickr/ Thomas Hawk The Hollywood mogul’s ostensible mea culpa is a perfectly written example of things not to do when you are apologizing. F or decades, Harvey Weinstein has served as the real-life inspiration for every tyrannical, foul-mouthed, hot-headed fictional movie studio executive. For…

Socialight is designed to fix this problem. The device–designed by SVA Products of Design student Kevin Cook–was inspired by the old phone stacking game, and functions similarly: The light only turns on when its hidden magnetometer detects a phone’s electromagnetic field. “[The] consequence for…

Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations left behind an ambiguity about his plans for using nuclear weapons. Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux A day or so after a nuclear weapon was used during wartime, onHiroshima, a Herald Tribune editorialist considered the “still hardlycredible fact” that a…

SOFIA, Bulgaria — While the embassies of most countries promote the interests of companies back home, North Korea’s are in business for themselves. A series of tough sanctions by the United Nations and an executive order recently signed by President Trump have sought to economically isolate the…

I am often asked if I am married. Sometimes I lie and say that I am. Sometimes I lie and say that I am not. Neither answer feels entirely truthful to me. If I say I am not married, the true answer, people occasionally try to set me up with their offspring. They seem to think I would be a great…

Detonation of Ivy Mike, the world’s first thermonuclear weapon (National Nuclear Security Administration, 1952) When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Maybe this is why so many Americans wonder why they can’t just nuke a country posing a risk to their security. With an arsenal of some…

‘They were made from the gut’ … Valley of the Gods, Utah, 1977, by Wim Wenders.Photograph: © Wim Wenders/Courtesy Deutsches Filminstitut Frankfurt Wim Wenders reckons he took more than 12,000 Polaroids between 1973 and 1983, when his career as a film-maker really took off, but only 3,500 remain.…

One day, when I was 19 years old, I was in the middle of a photo shoot for a Miramax film when I was suddenly told it was time to leave. I was wearing a little black dress, showing a lot of cleavage, lying seductively on my side and looking slyly at the camera. The part I had played in the movie,…

The Clash were principled. They wrote real songs. They were goofy. They went to the edge and beyond. And they did what they did, made the world come to them, and felt guilty about it. They recorded the equivalent of nine records in six years, including two or three of the greatest rock-and-roll…

The forerunner of the bicycle - the laufmaschine or running machine - bears only a passing resemblance to the pedal-bikes we know today. Invented in 1817, it had no chain and was powered by the rider pushing his feet along the ground in a walking or running motion. Even more unusually, its frame was…

Last week we published our hotly debated list of the 25 Best Rapper Producers of All Time . It was great to get the feedback, from the positive— “ The write up on Quik was spot on. The most underrated. So muthafukkin hated. Anything he did in music was never celebrated ” —to the negative— “ Where…

The US has announced it will withdraw from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), accusing the body of "anti-Israel bias". Heather Nauert, US state department spokesperson, said on Thursday the US would establish an "observer mission" to replace its representation at the…