I was four subway stops away from my apartment in Brooklyn on a recent Friday evening when my train came to a screeching halt. A voice crackled over the speaker: There were signal problems ahead. We started moving. Then we stopped. Over and over again. When we pulled into a station, one woman…

After the British writer G. K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time, he remarked that America was “a nation with the soul of a church.” Mr. Chesterton wasn’t referring to the nation’s religiosity but to its formation around a set of core political beliefs enshrined in founding…

Guidance The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used. Published 3 April 2012 From: Government Digital Service Contents 1. Start with user needs 2. Do less 3. Design with data 4. Do the hard work to make it simple 5. Iterate. Then iterate again 6. This is for everyone…

Once upon a time, Apple was known for designing easy-to-use, easy-to-understand products. It was a champion of the graphical user interface, where it is always possible to discover what actions are possible, clearly see how to select that action, receive unambiguous feedback as to the results of…

If there is one problem the U.S. military has studied and thought about, it is war on the Korean peninsula. The U.S. Army’s heart may still reside in Germany’s Fulda Gap, but the Army has been in Korea for almost as long as it has been in Germany. And the other services, especially the Navy, had…

L et’s be frank: I’ve done it. I’d wager you’ve done it, too. Design inspiration sites are chock-full of it. The entire design, UX, and creative community does it every single day: “Ugh, this design totally blows. I could make this look so much better.” Photoshop > New ... > My-Better-Layout.psd…

An op-ed from the front lines of product design at MetaLab . First, a disclaimer: the subject of this article is Mobile First in the context of design process, not development. We cool? Okay, nice. Let’s jam. 🤙 You know what really gets on my nerves? Mobile First. Or, more accurately, the…

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is not the first exec to deal with sexual harassment and sexism issues. And he’s not the first to be accused of stealing technology. He’s also not the first to anger customers through cloddish statements. And he’s not the first to face significant doubts about his ability to…

Adrian Dennis / AFP / Getty Images The leaders of the European Union’s remaining 27 member states have unanimously signed off on their Brexit negotiating guidelines with the UK. A source in the room said the agreement was adopted "in under a minute" and followed by applause from the 27 leaders who…

Samantha Bee during rehearsal for Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Photo: Greg Kahn Before she even told a joke on Saturday, Samantha Bee had won. When I told the director of my alma mater’s journalism program, a veteran Washington, D.C., reporter, that I would be in town for Bee’s Not…

Share We celebrate the experimental cinema legend for her centennial. This Saturday is the 100th anniversary of Maya Deren ’s birth, making it a time to honor the filmmaker, her work, and her significance and legacy within not just the arena of experimental cinema but film history in general.…

the three hot trends in Silicon Valley horseshit For a long time I told the same basic joke about Silicon Valley, just updating as some new walled garden network replicated long-existing technology in a format better able to attract VC cash and, presumably, get them ad dollars. 2002, Friendster: At…

More than a year into Twitter’s efforts to turn around the company under the leadership of Jack Dorsey, its business is shrinking. And yet, investors seem to have finally been given a glimmer of hope for the future. But first, the bad news. On Wednesday, Twitter reported its first fall in revenue…

European Council President Donald Tusk has called on the UK to come up with a "serious response" on what will happen to EU citizens in Britain after Brexit. "We need guarantees," he said in Brussels as 27 EU leaders backed the bloc's Brexit negotiating guidelines . The rights of EU citizens to live,…

If you asked me to describe the worst blind date ever, it would go something like this: We arrive at an abandoned warehouse for drinks. My date looks like a cross between John Malkovich and Britney Spears when she was struggling. I can tell I’m gonna need to get drunk to get through this. But first,…

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Photo: Courtesy of Twitter/MattHalfhill In early March, a friend of mine texted me to ask if I wanted to be a talent producer for the Fyre Festival . I’d never heard of it, but the gig involved going to the Bahamas and being paid extremely well. So I said yes and packed my bags. The festival was…

For more than four years, the YouTube channel Feminist Frequency has published new entries in the essay series Tropes vs Women, carefully breaking down the many tired conventions about how women are portrayed in video games. 18 videos and millions of views later, the regularly controversial Tropes…

Protesters in Istanbul last week opposed the results of Turkey’s April 16 referendum. Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ANKARA, Turkey — The credibility of the judges who oversaw Turkey’s referendum last week is being called into question because most of them were hastily appointed…

R emember back when you were a kid? You would just do things. You never thought to yourself, “What are the relative merits of learning baseball versus football?” You just ran around the playground and played baseball and football. You built sand castles and played tag and asked silly questions and…

T hink about this for a moment: Why would you ever choose to be with someone who is not excited to be with you? There’s a grey area in dating many people get hung up on — a grey area where feelings are ambiguous or one person has stronger feelings than the other. This grey area causes real, tangible…

Photo: Netflix Back in June, members of team Vulture picked their favorite TV episode of 2016 at the year’s halfway point . Four weeks later, my choice (the Jenny Slate episode of Girls ) has already been unseated by the fourth episode of BoJack Horseman ’s third season, which premiered today on…

BoJack and a baby seahorse take on the sea. Netflix A tiny cartoon seahorse grips a stallion’s hand. Together, wordlessly, they topple around the ocean through kelp and convenience stores, bop around factories manned by fish, and explore the dark alien depths of the deep sea. It’s very beautiful and…

Wednesday afternoon, nearly the entire membership of the US Senate packed into a bus and headed to the White House grounds for an unprecedented classified briefing from top Trump administration officials on North Korea policy. Such a huge meeting, on such a volatile topic, had people wondering — was…

WASHINGTON — President Trump told the leaders of Mexico and Canada on Wednesday that he would not immediately move to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement, only hours after an administration official said he was likely to sign an order that would begin the process of pulling the United…

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…