Netflix The third season of Netflix’s animated series BoJack Horseman dropped last Friday, which means that fans of the show’s grim-’n’-witty psychedelia are deep in binge mode. In "Fish Out of Water," the titular horse(man) spends a half-hour underwater, hitting an undersea film festival and…

BoJack HorsemanSeason 3 BoJack HorsemanSeason 3 "Fish Out of Water" A BoJack HorsemanSeason 3 "Fish Out of Water" A A "Fish Out of Water" Episode 4 As former BoJack Horseman reviewer Caroline Framke pointed out in her review of last season’s “ Hank After Dark ,” the combination of Netflix dropping…

In a tour de force of office supply physics, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown that it is possible to produce X-rays by simply unrolling Scotch tape. Next step: nuclear fusion. “We’re going to do that,” said Seth J. Putterman, a professor of physics at U.C.L.A. “I…

When the sun is directly overhead in Hawaii, it looks like a bad video game render The sun is exactly overhead twice a year in Lahaina, Hawaii, once in May and once in July. Poles don't cast shadows, giving the urban landscape an eerie appearance. Hawaii is the only state in the US where the sun's…

Inspired by articles that say everyone is a Designer In the past months, I've read several nice articles where authors share their thoughts and have great arguments on why everyone is a Designer. Here is the article by Daniel Burka that actually inspired me to write the current article. My article…

The legacy of Dr. Octagon, the deliriously bent time-traveling gynecologist who blew open the space hatch for the next 20 years of underground hip-hop, is being celebrated with a deluxe reissue of the 1996 landmark Dr. Octagonecologyst . Re-released by whimsical hip-hop deluxe edition specialists…

Well, here we are folks. I knew this day was coming but it always seemed so far away. After five long years, Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is over. This is one of the most emotionally complicated projects I’ve ever created. It has been simultaneously awful and wonderful, and the journey is one…

On Jan. 20, 1921, the Turkish Grand National Assembly passed the Teşkilât-ı Esasîye Kanunu , or the Law on Fundamental Organization. It would be almost three years until Mustafa Kemal — known more commonly as Ataturk, or “Father Turk” — proclaimed the Republic of Turkey, but the legislation was a…

Police seized an estimated $6m that the Brazilian gangsters stole.Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images Brazilian gangsters have taken armed robbery to a lethal new level with a cross-border attack on a Paraguayan security vault and police headquarters using automatic rifles, dynamite and anti-aircraft…

I know that in all relationships, memory tends to cloud reality. You recall the rosy details and forget the gritty ones. Maybe that ex-boyfriend wasn’t as funny as you thought, or maybe your favourite band wasn’t as excited to be at a show as you were. But how could I have forgotten a dropkick? I…

The Mirai Worm is a seemingly unstoppable piece of malware that targets the garbage-security Internet of Things gadgets that have proliferated through the world; these gadgets then used to deliver equally unstoppable floods of traffic that endanger whole countries . Because Mirai (and its cousins )…

Kenan Thompson took the stage in an oversized three-piece suit and an awkward wig bursting with Jheri curls. He looked, objectively speaking, completely and utterly ridiculous. Seconds before, a BET logo flashed across the screen as SNL cast member Will Forte, playing a talk show announcer ,…

Stella McCartney jacket $1,990 | T-shirt $315 | Pants $825 socks $99 by Stella McCartney, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and N.Y.C. stellamccartney.com We spoke with the artist about his new record and accepting the darkness of American history. Joey Bada$$ is a modern renaissance man. At 22, he has…

President Donald Trump at the White House Easter Egg Roll. AP "George W. Bush, but racist." That's what Jonathan Chait of New York magazine says President Donald Trump is turning into as he abandons some of his more idiosyncratic campaign positions and starts listening to Republican Party regulars…

Shutterstock Want to prompt creativity? Make someone unhappy. If people are happy, there’s no need to change. But if people are faced with others’ or their own distress, they will work to find creative ways to bridge the gap from bad to good and unhappiness to happiness. Happiness is good - three…

Rajah Bose I 'm sitting across from Rachel Dolezal, and she looks... white. Not a little white, not racially ambiguous. Dolezal looks really, really white. She looks like a white woman with a mild suntan, in box braids—like perhaps she'd just gotten back from a Caribbean vacation and decided to keep…

Eleven years on the road doing standup has given the comedian a unique empathy for the people of this country. “Anxiety’s part of the way my machine works,” Chappelle says. “And there’s no opportunity to be courageous without fear involved.” Nili Lotan sweater, $950, nililotan.com . Rings,…

Credit Illustration by T.S. Abe for The New York Times By SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple’s headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the iPhone maker. It was a session that Mr. Kalanick was dreading. For months, Mr. Kalanick had…

GTA Online is mostly known for violence and open world shenanigans, so most people don’t realize just how much the fandom cares about clothes. For over a year now, some of the most hardcore players have been using online forums to gripe about the fashion options available for women characters in GTA…

Should Whirlpool really become a tech company just so it can sell connected appliances? A few months ago I wrote about how every company is becoming a tech firm as a growing number of companies have to contend with digital information about their business or have to produce connected products and…

(Getty Images/iStockphoto) A fascinating new working paper finds that men are far more likely than women to back up their arguments with appeals to a higher authority: themselves. When an academic writes a research paper, it is common practice to give citations for various facts and assertions. It…

L ast week, I logged onto Facebook to see a story about a man who got drunk, cut off his friend’s penis and then fed it to a dog. This was followed by a story of a 100-year-old woman who had never seen the ocean before. Then eight ways I can totally know I’m a 90’s kid. Then 11 steps to make me a…

A newly pressed record awaits a robotic arm, which will move it to a spindle for cooling. Viryl Technologies Just over two years ago, Rob Brown was transfixed by an eBay auction. He and colleagues Chad Brown (no relation) and James Hashmi were bidding on a record pressing machine. It was the only…

GROZNY, Russia — It was supposed to be a night out. But for the young man who calls himself Maksim, as for scores of other gay men arrested in a pogrom this month in Russia’s Chechnya region, it pivoted into nearly two weeks of beatings and torture. Maksim said it had started with a chat room…

SEOUL — North Korea detained a U.S. citizen on Saturday as he attempted to leave the country, bringing the total number of Americans held by the isolated country to three. Korean-American Tony Kim had spent a month teaching an accounting course at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology…

Operation Paul Bunyan (no joke) was serious business A photograph taken by officers at a nearby observation post show the scramble when North Korean troops attacked UNC officers and civilians on a gardening mission in the DMZ. (JSA Vets) T he tree was a serious problem, decided the United Nations…

I go to this boot camp-style class sometimes at a gym near my apartment. It’s one of those classes where a coach stands there and yells at you to do more pushups and squats until you think you’re going to puke. Then you go home and struggle to sit on a toilet for the next three days. It’s great. I…

WASHINGTON — All the elements of the North Korean nuclear crisis — the relentless drive by Kim Jong-un to assemble an arsenal, the propaganda and deception swirling around his progress, the hints of a covert war by the United States to undermine the effort, rather than be forced into open…

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PARIS — In France’s most consequential election in recent history, voters on Sunday chose Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen to go to a runoff to determine the next president, official returns showed. One is a political novice, the other a far-right firebrand — both outsiders, but with starkly…

Johnny Harris is a senior video producer at Vox. We asked him to share thoughts on their team’s first video to reach a huge milestone — over 100 m illion views. The two-minute rule that ruled us all There was a time in 2015 when Vox thought our Facebook videos had to be short in order to perform…

When Boston Dynamics released a video of Spot, their robotic dog, being kicked they wanted to show how stable it was. What people actually saw was something in distress and flinching. Because empathy? The video started a debate on the ethics of human/robot interactions with people asking whether it…

Photo courtesy of Gene Brown Long before Kanye West called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help him achieve his dreams, he dialed Gene Brown. Brown, a former MC and producer living in North Carolina, couldn’t provide him with stacks of cash, but he could deliver gems in the form of obscure soul,…

LADY IN WAITING The soon-to-be First Couple is welcomed to the White House by the Obamas on Inauguration Day 2017. By Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Traditionally, presidents have at least made a show of having healthy,happy marriages. Even the Clintons, despite marital troubles, appearedto have moments…

Lots of gangster movies end in a shoot-out. Director Ben Wheatley’s new tough-guy flick, Free Fire , begins with shots fired—and never stops. The entire movie is a firefight. “It started from reading an FBI transcript of a gun battle in Miami that happened in the 1980s. It was kind of forensic…

30 years ago Cage teamed up with the Coen Brothers to create comedy gold. Why haven’t they reunited since? “That sumbitch. You tell him, I think he’s a damn fool, Ed. You tell him I said so – H.I. McDonnough. If he wants to discuss it, he knows where to find me: in the Maricopa County Maximum…

(Universal Pictures/Ringer illustration) Today in intellectual property: Deadline reported Friday that a Fast & Furious spinoff centered on Dwayne Johnson’s and Jason Statham’s characters is in the works. That theoretical film is a depressing idea for a few reasons. Fate of the Furious is the most…

A couple of years ago, it seemed as if everyone I knew was on the verge of divorce. “He’s not the man I married,” one friend told me. “She didn’t change, and I did,” said another. And then there was the no-fault version: “We grew apart.” Emotional and physical abuse are clear-cut grounds for…