Among all the other amazing music released in 1996— Reasonable Doubt , It Was Written , All Eyez On Me —DJ Shadow’s masterful debut Endtroducing… , a cut-and-mix symphony compiled of obscure samples, illmatic scratches and atmosphere for days, would emerge as one of the defining albums of the…

My name is Max Dubler , and I am a professional photographer who has been working full time in downhill skateboarding for the last several years. I am a well-known person within this little niche: I started an influential website with my friends, was on staff for the only downhill magazine since its…

A pixelated image from an early film shows a mare running. Scientists stored the short film in bacterial DNA and then retrieved it. Seth Shipman It was one of the very first motion pictures ever made : a galloping mare filmed in 1878 by the British photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who was trying to…

Eastern Iceland Borgarfjörður Eystri still receives few visitors, despite the tourism boom. Daniel Knieper/Flickr Is Tourism Spoiling Iceland? Feargus O'Sullivan May 24, 2016 The island nation’s visitor boom is putting its infrastructure under heavy stress, but some answers are on the way. Iceland…

That water's hot: Tourists walk in mist near the geyser at Geysir, Iceland, which gave the phenomenon its name. Stoyan Nenov/Reuters Feargus O'Sullivan 11:44 AM ET Visitors are underestimating the country’s dangers—and taking locals for granted. This month, Iceland’s ongoing tourism problems took a…

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Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, in March. Photograph by Nicole Bengiveno / NYT / Redux There’s an unofficial rule in the tech world: every C.E.O. must have a formative anecdote of failure. Reshma Saujani has an imposing résumé—she has delivered speeches at the White House and on…

Like a lot of digital artists today, I learned Photoshop in the late 90s in order to make awesome-looking fan sites and "professional" forum signature images. One of the Photoshop tricks I learned was the "Bevel" layer style , which embosses a faked thickness and depth onto a layer, as if it's…

For people who do not comprehend exactly *why* it has been so hard for me to implement the Shopping Ban consistently, or why exactly the Stuff seems to be so needed, here is a little insight into how my brain works. I'm not saying this isn't flawed thinking - but it's presented here for insight on…

The author with her stolen trike. This is a city where bikes get stolen. This isn’t exactly news. Speak with almost any cyclist living in Montreal, and they probably have had to replace their bike due to theft at some point. I’m a new cyclist. I only started biking last year. I have Multiple…

They're found on dusty warehouse shelves; buried under flea market knick-knacks; Googled, Ebayed, begged for; commissioned from blacksmiths, painters, and model makers for one-time use; and constructed out of whatever $5 can buy at the local craft store. They are sketched out, improvised, or placed…

Yuichiro Sugahara, whose company delivers bento lunchboxes, mostly through fax orders. Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times TOKYO — Japan is renowned for its robots and bullet trains, and has some of the world’s fastest broadband networks. But it also remains firmly wedded to a pre-Internet…

Messaging is the center of mobile, and Facebook wants ads in front of all those eyes. After seeing “promising results from Australia and Thailand,” Facebook Messenger is expanding its display ad beta test that lets businesses buy space between your chat threads. Later this month, a small percentage…

PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview .) ___________ pro-cras-ti-na-tion |prəˌkrastəˈnāSHən, prō-| noun the action of delaying or postponing something: your first tip is to avoid procrastination . Who would have thought that after…

A giant iceberg twice the size of Luxembourg has broken off an ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula and is now adrift in the Weddell Sea. Reported to be “ hanging by a thread ” last month, the trillion-tonne iceberg was found to have split off from the Larsen C segment of the Larsen ice shelf on…

How to make people love the product The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias that can influence the outcome and perceived value of products to a big degree. People tend to place high value on products they partially have created. Hence, the name IKEA effect. It is derived from the Swedish furniture…

Editors’ note: We’re resurfacing this story from the archives because who wouldn’t want to master their emotions? LAST month, in San Jose, Calif., 21 people were treated for burns after walking barefoot over hot coals as part of an event called Unleash the Power Within, starring the motivational…

U2 has often played for broad audiences that do not uniformly embrace the band’s progressivism. Throughout a recent concert at the Meadowlands, Bono made attempts at inspiration and conversion. Photograph by Taylor Hill / FilmMagic / Getty Love for a band, like love for a person, can move in…

Since the nineteen-sixties, the science of thermal comfort has tended to neglect women. Illustration by Tomi Um Even before Adam and Eve picked and ate the fatal fruit of the tree of knowledge, condemning humanity to lives of sweat-soaked toil, they knew the meaning of good thermoregulation. Halfway…

Officially, the NES died in 1995, some nine years after its launch. Unofficially, though, dedicated fans are keeping Nintendo's retro console very much alive. Today, the most prolific and respected NES developers are people such as Kevin Hanley , from Crestview, Florida. Since 2009, Hanley has made…

Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter. Editor Tim Herrera emails readers once a week with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Monday morning. We’re all a little lazy sometimes. If you’re anything like me, you’re reading this on…

Tumi luggage trackers put your pricey luggage on the map. Bear with me you guys, because I am about to write an entire essay about a connected suitcase tracker. It’s not because summer is a slow news time, or that travel stories do well in the summer months. It’s because Tumi just launched a $200…

Lieutenant-General (retired) Roméo Dallaire is the founder of the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative. Alex Neve is secretary-general of Amnesty International Canada. It is close to 15 years since the July 27, 2002, firefight in Afghanistan that killed a U.S. soldier, injured another, and left…

Village Underground – part creative community, part arts venue – occupies a dramatic site next to the city’s suspension bridge.Photograph: Village Undergound I n Lisbon people keep telling me about the surfing. It’s great. The beaches are 20 minutes from the beautiful, historic and lively centre of…

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: They were known as the holdouts, Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender after the end of World War II. Dozens fought on from their jungle strongholds, refusing to believe that the Japanese empire had been defeated. One of the last to surrender was Hiroo Onoda who spent 30…

Illustration by Stephen Skalocky Nearly a quarter century ago, the mischievous developers at Midway created NBA Jam , marrying video games and sports in a way never seen before. SI gathered those involved—behind the scenes and on the screen—to reminisce about the iconic coin-gobbling arcade game By…

You know it’s a racket, but you click anyway. You already know what it’s going to say: Showing less skin is ultimately sexier than wearing something too short or too low-cut, and a natural beauty look is more appealing than obvious contouring. Blue jeans, an off-the-shoulder top, a little red…

I got my first mobile phone when I was in high school. It was 2005, and the feeling of “cool” overwhelmed me. Text messaging was something sacred in those days. I was allotted 200 messages per month. I powered off during classes, and charged my phone three times a week. Today, I use my smartphone so…

The 1996 book “Under the Tuscan Sun” turned a region of Italy into a shorthand for a certain kind of bourgeois luxury and good taste. Photograph from Touchstone / Everett I have sat on Tuscan-brown sofas surrounded by Tuscan-yellow walls, lounged on Tuscan patios made with Tuscan pavers, surrounded…

Why did the chicken cross the road? It had been crossing so long it could not remember. As it stopped in the middle to look back, a car sped by, spinning it around. Disoriented, the chicken realized it could no longer tell which way it was going. It stands there still. - - - “Knock knock.” “Who’s…

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Editor’s Note: Hey all! My pal Andrew Egan, last seen writing on Tedium about the art of the DVD commentary , has a few thoughts on photo-developing technologies—and how they took pictures mainstream. It’s a lot to reflect on. Check it out! Today in Tedium: From Kodak and Canon to Facebook and…

Editor's note: Back again for another round is Andrew Egan, who most recently brought us the story of Scatman John . Tonight, he tells us about his time digging in the menus on random DVDs. (By the way, a quick shout-out to Kenn Messman, who recently made a big donation to the site. Thanks!) Today…

When you go online on July 12, you’re going to be bombarded with reminders that the Trump administration has promised to soon kill net neutrality, laying the groundwork for an internet chopped up into fast and slow lanes. In what’s shaping up to be the most visible online protest in five years, some…

What do a fragrance designer, New York City cop, bed-and-breakfast manager and youth hockey coach have in common? Each of them recently applied for an account director position at my public relations firm, along with 500 others whose experience and skill sets ranged from vaguely on-point to…

I like to think I take an above average amount of steps to secure myself online: I use a password manager, unique passwords as complex as the site will allow, and turn on 2-factor authentication when possible. A true security expert will likely find some sort of flaw in my setup, but I'll argue that…