Rami Ismail is one half of the team best known as Vlambeer , the developer behind games like Ridiculous Fishing , Luftrausers , and Nuclear Throne . Getting him to stay in one location long enough to have a conversation may prove difficult, so try talking to him on Twitter instead. 2019 was a…

O n a sunny July day in 2018, Alexis Stern was sitting behind the wheel of the red Ford Fusion her parents had given her the previous year when she’d learned to drive. Robbie Olsen, the boy she’d recently started dating, was in the passenger seat. They were in the kind of high spirits unique to…

An Op-Ed From the Future Amazon’s First Fully Automated Factory Is Anything But Keeping the “human free” facility running requires the work of third-party contractors, who are often put into dangerous situations. Mr. Merchant is a journalist. Credit... John Karborn Editors’ note: This is part of the…

Photo by Howard Barlow/Redferns/Getty . O nstage, they were the personification of unity – even family. The four men dressed the same –in leather motorcycle jackets, weathered jeans, sneakers – had the same dark hair color, shared the same last name. They seemed to think the same thoughts and…

Before Shani Hays began providing tech support for Apple from her home, in McKee, Kentucky, she worked at a prison as a corrections officer assigned to male sex offenders, making nine dollars an hour. After less than a year, she switched to working nights on an assembly line at a car-parts factory,…

I t’s so easy to focus on Adam Neumann, the tall, long-haired, barefoot, meat-banning, weed-smoking, tequila-drinking, Kabbalah-studying, experimental school-opening Paltrow-cousin-in-law and founder and now deposed chief executive officer of the We Company, the real estate company that dropped…

The idea of a social death is deeply rooted in history. It involves the exclusion of a person from society. They are stripped of their identity and confined to a state of alienation in the name of submitting to an infallible power. It’s a form of branding, a reminder of one’s inferiority, and it can…

The Mui Ho Fine Arts Library at Cornell University opened in late August. Its stacks hold a diverse collection spanning art, architecture, and photography. Courtesy © Lukas Schaller Unlike recent university libraries which are premised on the absence of physical books, Cornell University’s new art…

I’m angry that the two biggest architecture stories of New York 2019 are fuckups. The hollow grandeur of Hudson Yards and the evacuated spaces of the Hunters Point Library in Queens have turned what could have been triumphant moments for planning and design into queasy spectacles, albeit of…

Jake Paul is the latest YouTuber to get his own boxing special. If the team behind the growing sports streaming platform Dazn is right, it’ll be more than a one-time event. Following the successful rematch between his brother, Logan Paul, and fellow YouTuber KSI earlier this year, Jake is the next…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration It can be tempting to put actors in a box: Mark Ruffalo is the face of Justice itself ( Spotlight , Dark Waters ); Julia Roberts represents smart, beautiful, and unjustly treated women everywhere ( Pretty Woman , Erin Brockovich ). Such distinctions can be useful and…

Impeachment Hurts, and Trump Knows It The idea that the president thinks it will help him politically is wrong. Just listen to what he is saying. Opinion Columnist President Trump arriving at a campaign rally in Battle Creek, Mich., on Wednesday, as the House of Representatives voted to impeach him.…

DJ Nu-Mark is, likely, best know as being one of the in-house DJ's for critically-acclaimed/widely loved Los Angeles-based Hip-Hop crew Jurassic 5; although, Mark Potsic (affectionately known as "Uncle Nu") is also, a talented producer, turntablist, drummer, multi-instrumentalist, and film composer,…

in Music | December 21st, 2019 Leave a Comment Facebook Reddit Digg Vk Print Delicious Buffer Pocket Xing Tumblr Mail Yummly Telegram Flipboard Advertisement There are those who say that Radiohead was the last of the great rock bands before the internet crushed the record industry and popular music…

The president demands complete fealty, and as the impeachment hearings showed, he has largely attained it. To cross him is to risk a future in G.O.P. politics. President Trump has kept Republicans members of Congress in line throughout the impeachment process. Credit... Pete Marovich for The New…

Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West’s…

It began with—of all things—a newspaper article. In the fall of 1980, during the disastrous sixth season of Saturday Night Live , first-year writer Barry Blaustein’s father sent him a story out of Cleveland. The report focused on court-appointed administrator Donald R. Waldrip, who as part of a…

Oliver Stone had always wanted to make a football movie. As a kid growing up in the 1950s, he’d been mesmerized by the gridiron, watching quarterbacks Y.A. Tittle and Johnny Unitas throw passes on his black-and-white television. He latched on to the San Francisco 49ers and stayed loyal to them…

With impeachment season in full swing, the podsphere has sprung into action, providing, in a host of new impeachment podcasts, highlights, insights, and, I can only hope, a deep dive on “I think we primarily discussed A$AP Rocky.” We have, among others, “Impeachment Today,” from BuzzFeed News and…

Kylo Ren exits his cage at the Star Wars zoo. Lucasfilm Ltd. During a recent episode of the movie discussion podcast Blank Check with Griffin and David , the hosts revisited Jonathan Demme’s 1984 film Swing Shift . Considered by many (including me) to be one of the great lost classics of American…

Illustration by Marie Assénat This year brought seismic changes to the podscape—splashy, big-money acquisitions by companies like Spotify, uneven, big-money débuts by players like Luminary—and, above ground, a healthy crop of reliably good, bountiful content. New daily-news shows arose beside the…

Amazon Everywhere Credit... Andrea Chronopoulos Twenty years ago, Amazon opened its storefront to anyone who wanted to sell something. Then it began demanding more out of them. SEATTLE — For tens of millions of Americans, it is so routine that they don’t think twice. They want something — a whisk,…

Ever find yourself breaking off a square of chocolate and thinking, what even is this stuff? Like, other than the solidified nectar of the gods! So you Googled, “what is chocolate” and that brought you here. That’s honestly what we’re banking on. Hope it worked. So what is chocolate? Chocolate…

Uber is without a license in London, again. In a surprising decision, local taxi regulator Transport for London (TfL) announced this morning that it would not extend Uber’s license beyond midnight. Uber has 21 days to appeal the decision. London is one of Uber’s most important cities. Uber said in…

Chances are, you thought of Charles Darwin. Problem is, the word evolution was never used in the first edition of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life . Darwin only began employing the term in the sixth edition,…

New techniques for “densifying” wood can turn the ubiquitous substance into a super-material suitable for constructing buildings and body armor. Photo by mack2happy / Getty Images . Some varieties of wood, such as oak and maple, are renowned for their strength. But scientists say a simple and…

The trick to being successful could, in fact, be simple. From my own experience interviewing highly successful artists, writers, and creative entrepreneurs I’ve found one of the most common responses to the question of how they can be so prolific to be, ‘well, I don’t have a social life.’ Time Sink…

In 2009, Folgers released a commercial meant to be a modern reimagining of their classic ad " Peter Comes Home For Christmas ." Little did they know, it would become a classic of its own—for a very different reason. “Coming Home” opens with a taxi dropping a young man off outside a snow-covered…

Late last month, James Blake scored his first solo Grammy nomination in six years — so how better to celebrate than a solo piano tour, with comedians as the opening act? It’s actually a fittingly unpredictable move for an unpredictable musician. An accomplished singer, songwriter and pianist, he…

The outcome of the struggle to impeach President Trump remains in doubt, but one winner in the process is already clear: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016. As a scholar and a jurist, Scalia was the chief expositor of the judicial philosophy known as originalism. From beyond the…

Photo: Mark Hill/HBO S eason Season 1 of HBO’s series Watchmen wrapped up on Sunday, December 15 with a finale that brought together its previously separated plotlines , clarified some important relationships, and as usual, repeatedly looped back to the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons graphic novel that…

Top highlight In 1926, the last remaining wolves were killed in Yellowstone National Park. It was the outcome of a centuries-long campaign to rid North America of its wolf population. Wolves were viewed as a nuisance. They killed valuable livestock and created a barrier against our drive to conquer…

A wooden box containing one of the most valuable books in the world arrives in Los Angeles on October 14, 1950, with little more fanfare—or security—than a Sears catalog. Code-named “the commode,” it was flown from London via regular parcel post, and while it is being delivered locally by Tice and…

Illustration by Marie Assénat In the course of this past year, I’ve found myself wondering, more than a few times, whether we are living through the world’s stupidest era. Of course, it’s not as though people haven’t been doing dumb things since the dawn of time. (It wasn’t so smart of the Trojans…

Image by Oliver Munday . The U.S. Constitution was and is imperfect. It took a civil war to establish that the principles enumerated in its Bill of Rights extended to all Americans, and the struggle to live up to those principles continues today. But focusing on the Constitution’s flaws can…

A website will feature some of the beloved comic strip’s classics and, Larson says, “I’m looking forward to slipping in some new things every so often.” Some of the familiar creatures of “The Far Side” wave hello (except maybe the cow) in this new panel by Gary Larson for the web site. Credit...…

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Sixteen months ago Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Fleabag director Harry Bradbeer were sitting in a meeting room in despair. “No one spoke for about two minutes,” Bradbeer recalls. “I’m always positive, but I said, ‘I’m concerned.’ Phoebe said, ‘Look, we’ll just give Amazon their money back.’ And we got…

O Ophir Harpaz just wanted to get a good deal on a flight to London. She was on travel website OneTravel, scouring various options for her trip. As she browsed, she noticed a seemingly helpful prompt: “38 people are looking at this flight”. A nudge that implied the flight might soon get booked up,…