T he Kansas City Royals may have lost last year’s World Series, but in the most indelible moment of the series — indeed, of the season — the Royals held the fate of the championship in their hands. With Kansas City down to its final out in Game 7, trailing by a run to Madison Bumgarner and the San…

COLLEGE students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected. They say it’s a skill they mastered in middle school when they wanted to text in class without getting caught. Now they use it when they want to be both with…

Lasalle station. “Lasalle’s platforms, although very dimly lit, are full of vibrant reds, purples, and teals, contrasted with cement walls and cold metal benches,” Forsyth says. Courtesy of Chris Forsyth Montreal’s Metro was inaugurated nearly 50 years ago by then–Mayor Jean Drapeau , who held a…

M aybe never in your life do you meet an individual like Joe Rogan . He’s that singular, in a multivariate kind of way. For instance, most folks think of him only as the flapping-jawed, bug-eyed, hyperexcitable blow-by-blow commentator for all the Ultimate Fighting Championships’ fights since 2002,…

Earlier this week I watched some young musicians perform Lady Gaga songs in front of Lady Gaga. As India Carney’s voice rose and swooped during the incredible anthemic versions of her dance hits, Gaga sat enraptured. Her eyes moistened. Occasionally her arms would fling up in amazement. Finally, she…

From Uber to self-driving vehicles, what does the future of your commute soundtrack look like? F or many years , the presumed relationship between music and the automobile was that life was a highway, and they would be riding together all night long. Driving around on a nice day with the windows…

Elena Scotti/FUSION I start each day with a lie. I get up, walk into the bathroom, and weigh myself. The data streams from the Chinese scale to an app on my phone and into an Apple dataserver, my permanent record in the cloud. I started this ritual because I thought it would keep me honest. It would…

Between album jackets for Luna and Eels, his design for books by Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, his crisp New Yorker covers, and his poignant graphic novels, Adrian Tomine has established himself as one of the nation’s greatest and most versatile cartoonists. That's despite an understated…

It was unusually warm for late September, but Buddie didn’t seem to mind. As the mascot for a plan to legalize marijuana in Ohio, Buddie has a superhero’s physique, a green bumpy head, and a winning smile. Despite the heat, the woman on Buddie duty stood in the Oval, the center of academic life at…

Michelle Carter listens to defense attorney Joseph P. Cataldo argue for the involuntary manslaughter charge against her to be dismissed, citing five separate arguments at Juvenile Court in New Bedford, Mass., on Aug. 24. (Peter Pereira/The New Bedford Standard Times via AP) Michelle Carter knew that…

Sex on Campus The Game Is Rigged Why sex that’s consensual can still be bad. And why we’re not talking about it. Photograph by Andrew Lyman SCAD class of 2016 Last winter, Reina Gattuso was a Harvard senior majoring in literature and gender studies and writing a biweekly column for the college…

The Social Network is Yesterday, The Interest Feed is Tomorrow Curation + Personalization In October 2011 I gave a presentation called The Race To Be Trusted . I was pulling on a thread handed to me by Andy Weissman regarding the evolution of Internet content distribution. In short: THE AOL ERA:…

Flickrnumi / Flickr There are new Pop Tarts, and they are Limited Edition. I know this because it says “Limited Edition” in bold red lettering inside a yellow banner that circumscribes the box . For an unspecified but finite amount of time only, Pop Tarts are available in a seasonal palette and…

As Europe continues to struggle with a steady flow of migrants and the challenges of how best to receive asylum seekers from war zones , The New York Times asked readers for their questions about the refugee crisis. We have addressed some issues and used other questions to help inform our reporting.…

Abe Zeines’s hilltop mansion in Puerto Rico looks like a frat house after a rager. A wrecked golf cart blocks the driveway. An SUV with a blown tire sits on the grass out front. A porch overlooking the Caribbean is littered with beer bottles and cigarette butts. It’s a Monday morning in June, and…

As mass shootings have become ever more familiar, experts have come to understand them less as isolated expressions of rage and more as acts that build on the blueprints of previous rampages. Experts in violence prevention say that many, if not most, perpetrators of such shootings have intensively…

Five years ago, the book world was seized by collective panic over the uncertain future of print. As readers migrated to new digital devices, e-book sales soared, up 1,260 percent between 2008 and 2010, alarming booksellers that watched consumers use their stores to find titles they would later buy…

In Memoriam 1942 – 2013 “Roger Ebert loved movies.” RogerEbert.com Reviews Great Movies Chaz's Journal Blogs Far Flungers Channels Contributors Slender Man Nothing is scarier than bad filmmaking. Skate Kitchen A solid hangout movie as well as a band-of-buddies film. Other Reviews BlacKkKlansman A…

One of our favorite pastimes is speculating about what jobs will left over after a allegedly imminent deluge of technological unemployment. This speculation is, of course, pointless. It defines future employability in terms of “can’t be automated.” But, for a variety of reasons, that is a fairly…

It was summertime in Manhattan, dark and balmy, almost midnight, on the Upper West Side. He and I rounded the corner from Amsterdam. Drinks had gone well. Walking me home, he held my hand. Tipsy, I said, “You can’t come up,” and stopped near a stoop. “I don’t want to,” he said coyly, placing his…

WASHINGTON — Inside the Beltway, Libya is the name of a scandal, not a country. But right now, Libya the country has a chance to right its course in its difficult transition to democracy. United Nations talks among the warring factions have come close to yielding a new unified government. For this…

Last week, the magazine published a cover story I wrote about the history of the narrative of the killing of Osama bin Laden. For two days after the article was posted online, the reaction was overwhelming and positive; most readers seemed to grasp the intent of the piece — which was to explore the…

[ETA: This is a three part post! Part 2, offensive gender and sexuality stereotypes, is here . Part 3, offensive race stereotypes, is here .] So let’s say that you’re a writer looking to do some game writing. Maybe you’ve got a game you’re looking to design, or a setting or piece of game fiction to…

We got our very first taste today of the upcoming Bond film, Spectre , with a brief presser announcing the movie's name and production and cast info. Daniel Craig will return as Bond, as will Naomie Harris as Miss Moneypenny, Ralph Fiennes as M and Ben Whishaw as Q. Monica Bellucci and Léa Seydoux…

A friend calls unexpected connections with lost loved ones “winks,” and finding Google Maps photos of my mother felt like a wink of monumental proportions. Source: Google Maps Every now and again, when I’ve been working for too many hours without a break or have spent an entire day writing…

A philosopher is perhaps the last person you’d expect to have a hand in designing your next car, but that’s exactly what one expert on self-driving vehicles has in mind. Chris Gerdes , a professor at Stanford University, leads a research lab that is experimenting with sophisticated hardware and…

Late last summer, I traveled to San Francisco to give a talk at a conference on corporate communications. There, one speaker identified herself as a “corporate storyteller.” Her job, she explained, is to help companies develop a “humanizing narrative.” Next up was a “story strategist,” who advises…

It’s no secret that Metal Gear Solid is a montage of the strange and bizarre. From nanobot-powered vampires to cyborgs with white blood, there’s no shortage of head-scratching moments amidst all the sneaking around and monologuing. But, now in its 17th year, Hideo Kojima’s magnum opus seems to be…

Intimidating! Photo: Hero Images/Corbis As the tides of history and gender change, it would be easy to assume that men — recently unseated as the dominant intellects and degree-havers in the U.S . — would adapt to a world where women are not only their equals, but often their intellectual superiors.…

At this point in history, no author is more divisive than Jonathan Franzen. Even people who like his books have to admit that they’re kind of terrible. In Grantland, Brian Phillips wrote: “Probably no one alive is a better novelist than Jonathan Franzen, and this is frustrating because his novels…

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…

By Suzy Menkes Friday 23 October 2015 Getty The announcement that Raf Simons is resigning from his position as creative director of Christian Dior might seem like a sequel to Dior and I . That film showed the Belgian designer's arrival at the historic Parisian house, his struggle, his tears, his…

I recently attended TwitchCon in San Francisco and was drawn into a conversation with a fellow booth worker about women on Twitch. We ended up chatting about that myth that we all hear brought up every once in a while: that women streamers have it easier on Twitch. Twitch.tv is a video game…

The wild success of developer Naughty Dog's Uncharted series heavily relies on its protagonist, Nathan Drake, a funnier, friendlier, less crotchety Indiana Jones. The treasure hunter searches for worldly riches through clues of past, historic treasure hunters. Of course, Drake is never the only one…

Bronson Arroyo was in some small town near Los Angeles, the name of which he doesn’t remember, and he was thinking about getting old. He and a friend had stopped at a diner to get a bite to eat, and he couldn’t help but notice all of the old men seated around them. He recalls this moment a few weeks…

This article originally appeared on VICE US It started as so many great ideas do: on a Saturday morning, lying in bed watching SportsCenter, and talking to strangers on Twitter. I don't think any of this would've happened if Twitter hadn't been invented. So I'm on Twitter and some white person asked…

(Warning: This article contains spoilers about important story beats within Spec Ops: The Line.) A devastating, clipping drought has gripped the midwest the last few months. While driving through Illinois farm country this weekend, a store selling farm equipment propped a telling sign out front: “Do…

Throughout the history of war-themed shooting video games, game designers have often thought about how they might use the tools at their disposal to explore a new dimension of commentary on their subject matter even as they also succeeded in creating best-selling entertainment. Yager’s Spec Ops: The…