Procrastination has been around since the start of modern civilization. Historical figures like Herodotus, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Benjamin Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and hundreds of others have talked about how procrastination is the enemy of results. One of my favorite quotes about…

Advertisement Pocket Worthy · Stories to fuel your mind. The Three Strength Exercises Everyone Should Do Even if you’re not trying to get swole, these movements will help you with everyday movements. Kettlebells are a great tool for increasing your strength gradually.Deposit Photos Lifting weights…

Illustration: Mark Long T he mute button was invented in 1956 by Robert Adler, an Austrian-born engineer working for the Zenith Radio Corporation in Chicago. It was one of the four buttons on his Space Command 400, the first commercially viable TV remote control. The other three buttons – on/off,…

Part I: Birth of the Kiss The story begins with a terrible vacation. Or perhaps “terrible” is too obvious— Vampire’s Kiss is not the sort of movie that could have emerged from a jolly seaside honeymoon. It is grim, deranged—a comedy so dark its protagonist, played with wild fervor by Nicolas Cage,…

“Well, I believe in truth,” says Henry Cavill as Superman, crashing the calamitous final battle of the woebegone 2017 film Justice League . “But I’m also a big fan of justice.” Then he punches the crap out of a guy named Steppenwolf. The line likewise lands with a thud, with a palpable full-audience…

Is the original recording of the Beastie Boys ’ “License to Ill” lost forever? On Sunday night’s episode of his Beats 1 show “Echo Chamber,” Beastie Boys member Mike D revealed to Q-Tip that no one can find the masters to the hip-hop group’s debut album. “No, ‘License to Ill,’ we don’t have.…

Chuck Berry, 1958. Skip to contentSkip to site index Feature It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire. Chuck Berry, 1958. 1. ‘The Vault Is on Fire’ The fire that swept across the backlot of Universal…

Photo: Joe Darrow; Filippo Bacci; Michael Kovac/Getty Images; Getty Images/Getty Images In early January, employees of the We Company, formerly known as WeWork, gathered in Los Angeles for its annual summit. As with many of the company’s events, it was more tent revival than corporate off-site. The…

Illustration: Karl Gustafson When you’re in the mood for Kool-Aid, you can walk into a grocery store and chose from about 20 different flavor packets all priced at about a quarter a piece. However, if you’re in the market for some quintessentially classic, high-grade, “Oh Yeah!”-era Kool-Aid, you’ll…

S ince it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share of the urban car service market. But the widespread belief that it is a highly innovative and successful company has no basis in economic…

Emilija Manevska / Getty Although there are billions of people in the world, it’s always tempting to believe your existence is unprecedented in some way. For me it’s my hair, which I’ve long suspected poses an uncanny challenge to the world of follicular maintenance. It’s curly yet fine, frizzy yet…

This article originally appeared on VICE US. Google has found itself under fire for plans to limit the effectiveness of popular ad blocking extensions in Chrome. While Google says the changes are necessary to protect the “user experience” and improve extension security, developers and consumer…

If you're walking in Bloomfield, New Jersey, there's a good chance you're being recorded. But it's not a corporate office or warehouse security camera capturing the footage -- it's likely a Ring doorbell made by Amazon. While residential neighborhoods aren't usually lined with security cameras, the…

Police in riot gear stand guard in Ferguson, Missouri, on November 25, 2014. Adrees Latif / Reuters / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic My first known ancestor in the Americas was an Ashanti woman called “the African.” We don’t know her name, but through records kept by slaveholders, we know she existed. We…

Photo: Jeff Sheldon (Unsplash) Analog Week Just because 'there's an app for that' doesn't mean you have to use it. This week we're going analog, reminding ourselves that we can live—and live _well_ —without smartphones, and seeing what's worth preserving from the time before we were all plugged in…

Ringer illustration In the 50-plus years since Who’s That Knocking at My Door , we’ve gotten a good idea of what to expect from a Martin Scorsese picture. An active camera. A soundtrack charged with killer needle drops or an eclectic score. Characters in a state of mortal and spiritual torment.…

Tombstone’s primary weapon hits with 50 times the force of an AK-47, but before Ray Billings can test it, he must Shop-Vac his driveway. Tombstone, Billings’s legendary BattleBot that is 15-2 in competition, tosses 250-pound robots like rag dolls. It can turn wood to pulp, smash cinderblocks to…

Photo Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge Public Library Built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at rapid speed beginning in 1942, the instant wartime cities of Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford/Richland, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico, revolved around military…

The man with the plan: Bert "Tito" Beveridge and his homemade still. Credit: Michael Thad Carter For Forbes IT'S A BLISTERING MORNING in June, 15 miles southeast of Austin, Tex. , and Tito Beveridge is making a key point about the history of his craft vodka business. Dragging out a filthy, dog-eared…

I have the misfortune of living in one of those areas in which the craft brewing industry has somehow become one of the major drivers of economic growth. According to this map I found online, there are currently 57 craft breweries within about a 30-minute drive from my house in Durham, North…

President Trump on Tuesday showed reporters what he said was part of an immigration agreement with Mexico, but he refused to disclose details. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday waved a piece of paper that he said was part of a “very long and very good”…

Advertisement Pocket Worthy · Stories to fuel your mind. I Slept Outside for a Week and It Changed My Life (Really) What a restless coffee drinker learned from going to circadian-rhythm rehab (a tent in the woods). Photo: Christopher D. Thompson I live in explicit defiance of the rules of good sleep…

The USS John S. McCain, pictured at its rededication in 2018 Eugene Hoshiko / AP One prays to the “ Eternal Father, strong to save / Whose arm hath bound the restless wave ” that The Wall Street Journal has got it horribly wrong. The newspaper reports that the United States Navy, under orders from…

An Instacart shopper checks her phone as she shops for a customer at Whole Foods in Denver on October 28, 2014. Cyrus McCrimmon/Denver Post via Getty Images California just took a major step in rewriting the rules of the gig economy. The state Assembly passed a bill Wednesday that would make it…

Enlarge / The 2018 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Samuel Axon When Apple executive Craig Federighi described a new location-tracking feature for Apple devices at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on Monday , it sounded—to the sufficiently paranoid, at least—like both a…

Europe Dispatch As Europeans go to the polls in a Continental election, a New York Times reporter set out to find out what Europe means to Europeans in 2019. European countries’ flags flying in Strasbourg, France. Credit Andrew Testa for The New York Times In his front yard in Poland, Jaroslaw…

All photos by Diana Markosian. A bitter wind ripped along the valley floor, through wild olive trees and up the crumbly hillside where everything was sucking. My interpreter, Mavi, and I were shivering and walking with no end in sight. Then again, nothing was in sight—it was the middle of a dark…

Enter a caption (optional) This interview is part of a series featuring the presenters participating in this year's Core77 Conference, "Now What? Launching & Growing Your Creative Business" , a one-day event aimed to equip attendees with tangible skills and toolkits to help produce and promote their…

N ot Not long into John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum , our titular assassin, running from a $14 million bounty on his head, is asked a simple question that cuts to the core of this unlikely movie franchise’s existence. “All of this, for what? Just because of a puppy?” “It wasn’t just a puppy,” Wick…

Berlin, Germany - February 26: In this photo illustration the app of Google Chrome is displayed on a smartphone on February 26, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images) Getty Google is planning to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to…

Special counsel Robert Mueller makes a statement on the investigation into Russian election interference on May 29, 2019, at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC. Salwan Georges/Washington Post/Getty Images Robert Mueller’s report makes the stirring claim that “a fundamental principle of our…

“Do what you love” is career advice that’s easy to give, but notoriously hard to follow. For one thing, we can’t always accurately predict what kind of job we’ll love until we’re actually doing it. For another, we may love doing a lot of things: solving math problems, helping others, interior…

Photo by Justin Fantl Late last summer , Dawn Paquin started keeping her money on a prepaid debit card from Walmart instead of in a traditional checking account. The wages from her factory job—she works from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., inspecting blades on industrial bread-slicing machines—now go directly…

Stephen Lam / Reuters In October 2016, then-President Barack Obama hosted a miniature version of the blowout tech conference South by Southwest, which the White House called South by South Lawn . Obama, as The New York Times put it at the time, “brought Silicon Valley to Washington.” He even hinted…

Photo-Illustration: Emily Denniston/Vulture and Photos by HBO During the rapid expansion of cable and satellite television in the 1980s, HBO was one of the new services’ biggest selling points, thanks to a lineup that featured uncut recent theatrical movies, concerts, stand-up-comedy specials, and…

“I am not a bookmaker,” Gadoon Kyrollos tells me as we walk through the Hard Rock Casino in Atlantic City, playing penny slot machines. “I’m a sports bettor.” Kyrollos is actually one of the highest-rolling sports bettors in the United States. He bets millions of dollars each year on sporting…

Binoculars at Israel's Quneitra viewpoint overlooking Syria Shachaf Rodberg EIN ZIVAN, Golan Heights—Kobi Marom squints into the morning sun and gestures at the rolling green hills beneath the Quneitra viewpoint, where the crumbled Syrian city of Quneitra juts up against the Syrian-Israeli border…

This is an edited extract from the Foreword to Christopher Frayling’s Once Upon a Time in the West: Shooting a Masterpiece (Reel Art Press), based on a long conversation between Frayling and Tarantino from January 2018. The movie that made me consider filmmaking, the movie that showed me how a…

Courtesy of Netflix In late May, the comedy group The Lonely Island released a “visual poem” on Netflix with virtually no prior promotion or explanation. Which was probably for the best. The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience landed from out of nowhere with an absurdity befitting its punchline of…

Charles Platiau / Reuters Late in May, the Louvre closed. The museum’s workers walked out, arguing that overcrowding at the home of the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo had made the place dangerous and unmanageable. “The Louvre suffocates,” the workers’ union said in a statement written in French,…