‘D onald Trump never laughs,” Al Franken said. This was the senator’s first observation to me on a recent afternoon. It was exactly three weeks from the day the punch line became the president-elect. And Trump’s mysterious absence of laughter had never occurred to me before, even though I’d spoken…

Photograph by Theme Park Tourist / Flickr Disney World’s Hall of Presidents is one of the park’s longest-runningattractions, thanks in no small part to the tireless work of amaintenance crew that cares for the animatronic Presidents. What followsare excerpts from the maintenance logs for the Hall,…

HELSINKI, Finland — Universal basic income is generating considerable interest these days, from Bernie Sanders , who says he is “absolutely sympathetic” to the idea, to Mark Zuckerberg , Facebook’s chief executive, and other tech billionaires . The basic idea behind it is that handing out…

Photo taken at an Abercrombie and Fitch launch by istolethetv Let's face it: British culture is in a weird place right now. Teenagers are buying their drugs on the internet, but getting their clothes from Hollister. Hardbody MCs are beefing with each other about the merits of Ed Sheeran and Mail…

Glory holes have always struck me as absurd. You’re saying I just stuff my dick through this unmarked crevice in the wall of a public restroom and wait for impending orgasmic bliss courtesy of a frisky passer by? That sounded… implausible. So I spent the last 48 hours looking into their legitimacy,…

One of the giant craters discovered on the Yamal Peninsula.Photograph: Vasily Bogoyavlensky/AFP/Getty Images S trange things have been happening in the frozen tundra of northern Siberia. Last August a boy died of anthrax in the remote Yamal Peninsula, and 20 other infected people were treated and…

Some call it “ soaking .” Others: “ Parking ,” “ marinating ” or the “ The Provo Float .” Or my personal favorite: The “ dock and talk .” The definition, however, remains the same every time: When a man inserts his penis inside a woman’s vagina and… that’s it. No thrusting, no grinding, no climax.…

Metal tags will no longer be used as admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Karsten Moran for The New York Times The “French Connection” was in theaters. The Mets and the Yankees finished in fourth place. The city referred to itself as the Big Apple for the first time in advertising campaigns.…

In this illustration: Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway, Kid Rock, Pepe the Frog and others. Credit Illustration by Andrew Rae By S ean Spicer, the White House press secretary, was running late and ‘‘tied up in the Oval,’’ an assistant explained. It was late on a Thursday afternoon in June, and I had…

Parents Told Police Their Daughter Is Being Held Against Her Will In R. Kelly’s “Cult” As the R&B legend tours the country this summer, parents have told police that R. Kelly is keeping women against their will in an abusive "cult" that's tearing families apart. Three former members of Kelly’s inner…

Dear Amy and Brian, Are you missing a Lionel Richie record? I’m talking about a very specific record. It’s a well-worn copy of Richie’s eponymous solo debut that I’m pretty sure was very important to you once. It may very well have been the soundtrack for your relationship. How do I know this? Well,…

Al Jaffee, the cartoonist of Mad magazine, at work in his home in Provincetown, Mass., August 17, 2010. By Erik Jacobs/The New York Times/Redux. Do you remember the last time you flipped through a Mad magazine? Maybe it was when you were a kid, back when Mad ’s inimitable satire felt a little…

4JAYS in Antioch, Calif. Jonathan Castillo Since 1985, Joel Riplie has opened 45 video game stores. Calling each Video Game Exchange, he approaches them like a reality show — he finds a location, fixes it up, stocks it with games, gets the business running smoothly and then, when the right offer…

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Christopher Nolan fights for the big screen. He optimizes his movies for the 70mm experience and perhaps none more than “ Dunkirk ,” his intense recreation of Allied soldiers attempting to evacuate the beaches of Dunkirk, France in 1940. The movie shifts between events on land, in the air, and on…

Illustration by N Tani Studio “If you’d never experienced this, it would be hard to understand.” That’s the first line of Boys for Sale , a documentary that had its North American premiere last week at Outfest Los Angeles . The film follows 10 urisen — mostly straight Japanese boys who sell sex to…

President Trump and President Emmanuel Macron of France greeted each other in Paris this month. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times WASHINGTON — In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, President Trump made a number of misleading and false claims, including statements on…

President Trump spoke on Wednesday with three New York Times reporters — Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman — in an exclusive interview in the Oval Office. Also in attendance was Hope Hicks, a White House spokeswoman. At one point, the president’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump…

Advice for men. image via , art via kelly At the store haha. Folding my laundry haha. Took my dog for a walk today haha. Want to get a drink later haha. Did you watch the new “Game of Thrones” episode haha. Men are always communicating like this via text-based platforms haha. Why? haha. You don’t…

E-commerce company Brandless launched last week, but it is already billing itself as the “Procter and Gamble of millennials.” The startup sells a variety of Brandless-branded foods and household goods, supplied by its proprietary partner manufacturers, and all priced at $3. It’s raised nearly $50…

(Sony Pictures/Warner Bros./Ringer illustration) A question: What dunk that happened in a movie is the Best Worst Movie Dunk? A 3,600-word answer: This shouldn’t be complicated, but it is because the best worst movie dunk is a bunch of things all at once. It needs to look like there’s no way on…

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) This week brought more bad news for Google Fiber, the search giant’s troubled bid to become a powerful internet service provider. On Tuesday, Greg McCray stepped down as CEO of the company’s ISP business (now formally housed under Access, a subsidiary of Google…

A selfie-taking monkey went to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, to fight for his right to own copyrights. Or rather, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) went to court on his behalf, it seems, to make a point about animal liberation. For those of you who haven't been…

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. Customer Experience, UX and Service Design help organizations to provide excellent services. We do it in different ways, but that’s what we do. Not for much longer. We used to have few interactions with organizations Not so long ago, people used to have…

This is the second article of the “Designed” series. Check out the other articles: Designed Inconveniences: UX Patterns That Can’t Be Taught Designed Redundancies: UX Patterns To Unblock Frustration…And Save Lives. Also, to learn more about UX Patterns visit my side project Waveguide , where I…

The Tovala oven is both hardware and a service. But the hardware’s price tag may keep people away from the service. Adding sensors and connectivity to kitchen devices lets amateurs use tools that were once reserved for pros. Examples include the sous vide cooker, beer brewing equipment and now,…

Cartoon Network's Rick and Morty , with its massive viewership and critical acclaim , is probably the standard bearer for TV animation right now. But as co-creator Dan Harmon recently pointed out to me at a press event in Los Angeles, only 21 episodes have aired so far, and that's not all that much…

Credit: Alan Rand There is something about Jay "J-Zone" Mumford that many people (myself included) admire and aspire to; He is unbelievably candid and genuinely expressive, which is almost alien in this day and age. It is refreshing to say the least and has not gone unnoticed by critics and fans…

Take a trip through the Rick and Morty multiverse. Direction: Matt Taylor - Titmouse. Music: "Thursday in the Danger Room (instrumental version)" from the album "RTJ3" by Run The Jewels. Rick and Morty Full Episodes: http://asw.im/3rmHMk All-new episodes begin July 30th at p ET. SUBSCRIBE:…

When the Jewish German psychologist Kurt Lewin fled Nazi rule and moved to the United States in 1933, he, like many immigrants, found his new home a little puzzling. Especially when it came to friendships. “Compared with Germans, Americans seem to make quicker progress toward friendly relations…

IT IS like a hash-induced hallucination: row upon row of lush, budding plants, tended by white-coated technicians who are bothered by the authorities only when it is time to pay their taxes. Cannabis once grew in secret, traded by murderous cartels and smoked by consumers who risked jail. Now,…

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Image A Shanghai clothing market that allows customers to pay using the apps Alipay and WeChat. Credit Yuyang Liu for The New York Times SHANGHAI — There is an audacious economic phenomenon happening in China. It has nothing to do with debt, infrastructure spending or the other major economic topics…

As we pointed out recently, long, steady-state cardio really isn't doing too much for you in the fitness department. The good news is that jacking up your metabolism, burning fat, and increasing lean muscle mass—the trifecta of a beach body, in other words—takes less time than you might think. The…

Mario Anzuoni / Reuters R. Kelly holds a “cult”-like grip on at least six women living in his homes in Chicago and the Atlanta suburbs, fitting with a long-alleged pattern of sexual predation, according to a report at BuzzFeed . The journalist Jim DeRogatis quotes three former members of the R&B…

Guide to Games is Waypoint's weekly short video series diving into a game we love, detest, or find fascinating. If the video above doesn't play, try the version on YouTube! Hideo Kojima. You know him: Creator of skin-breathing assassins, chicken hats, and cutscenes that last an entire afternoon. You…