4 min read · Sep 27, 2015 -- Yesterday I got my new iPhone 6s Plus. I made the jump from the 6 to the Plus size, so I was a year late getting on that band wagon. I didn’t install iOS 9 when it was fir
Welcome to our series — How did you get that job? — where we run interviews with interesting people about their work and how they came to be doing it. Charles Bolden is, in many ways, the face of NASA
According to “media naturalness theory,” what makes a medium of communication “natural” is how closely it resembles face-to-face conversation. The more a medium allows people to respond to each other
As the school year opens, and our eyes turn again to young people and the justice system, it’s worth revisiting the failings of the systems we have created.
Why Can’t We Stop Talking About New York in the Late 1970s? See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. The late 1970s were some of the darkest, bleakest years in Ne
More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness , web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads . People hated pop-up ads. We tolerated in-page banners as an a
Johannes Vermeer, A Maid Asleep , oil on canvas, 1656–7, 2′ 6″ x 2′ 10″. “Imagine you lost everything that really mattered to you, and then you had a dream, and in that dream you found out that you ne
No matter how far and often you might wander around your city, there’s one way you most likely never get to experience it: from above. Approached from directly overhead, the bird’s-eye-view renders vi
Is the media, as it gets ready to supply its product directly to social networks, becoming a “wire service?” Ezra Klein, on/on Vox : [M]y guess is that within three years, it will be normal for news organizations of even modest scale to be publishing to some combination of their own websites, a…
14 min read · Aug 1, 2015 -- I gave the following speech at the Aspen Institute’s Action Forum , on July 29, 2015, in Aspen. The talk — on generosity versus justice — was to my fellow fellows in the A
Last weekend, I wrote a post about the journey of getting to Series A , and I was surprised by how widely it was shared. It’s a testament to how hard Series A rounds are relative to the number of seeded companies out there. But, many also perceive the A round to be the only option, where in fact,…
Getty The 2016 presidentialcandidates like to talk about innovation, and they’re currently debating the tech-fueled “gig economy.” Those are important issues, but when it comes to howgovernment meets
As a Black female CS major at Stanford, I hate walking around the halls of the Gates Computer Science Building. It’s not because the Gates interior reminds me of 1970 even though it was built in the 1990s. It’s not because of the memories I have of CS107's Heap Allocator turning me into a nocturnal…
I discovered Airbnb on August 12, 2008 and six weeks later gave them a term sheet for their entire seed round. But in the (literal) final hour, it fell apart. It’s an unusual story and one of several key experiences that shaped my approach to investing in startups. Over the last seven years, I’ve…
This post originally appeared at WaitButWhy.com . Everyone feels something when they’re in a really good starry place on a really good starry night and they look up and see this: Advertisement Image:
T he boarding procedure has barely started at Chicago O’Hare, and Ben Schlappig has already taken over the first-class cabin. Inside Cathay Pacific Flight 807 bound for Hong Kong, he’s passing out a c
Justice delayed is justice denied: above, the Albemarle County Courthouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photo courtesy Bill McChesney/Flickr Creative Commons (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bsabarnowl/
[ edit July 12: when you’re done here, I wrote a followup for you: Fixing or Replacing Reddit, some quick thoughts — take a look! chuq ] Two or three times a year I get asked why I don’t use Reddit, typically from someone telling me about all of the great stuff on it. They’re right, there are a lot…
One Sunday morning in late October, Iman Masmoudi stepped onto a wooden balcony and began to sing. "I bear witness that there is no god except God,"she chanted in melodic Arabic. "I bear witness that
Kacper Pempel/Reuters In recent months top American and British political leaders have been arguing that there should be no encrypted communication system that they cannot unlock whenever they deem it
Vice’s attraction for its valuable millennial audience is predicated on the notion that it is real and raw, not plastic and prepackaged like the rest of the mainstream media world. But it may be truer to say that Vice simply packages itself more deftly than almost any other big media company.
George Washington Custis Lee (1832–1913) on horseback with staff reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade in Richmond, Virginia, on June 3, 1907. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Photograph by Edyth Carte
7 min read · Jul 3, 2015 -- There’s been a joke for a few years now that all the web applications you’ve ever heard of are actually some other Internet protocol, reconfigured to answer on port 80, the
When Reddit users get banned from a subreddit, they have little recourse—and that’s only after they’ve figured out they’re banned. Photo illustration by Slate . Photo by Eric Cote/Thinkstock. Dependin
IndexCensorshipMag: Risks faced by students & teachers criticising the government line in China. From latest issue, by @JFSteinfeld http://t.co/5dwVPliIbP
On Thursday, Reddit executives fired their Director of Communications Victoria Taylor with little announcement or explanation. While not so strange by itself—it would be bizarre if a company did publi
As the most senior Supreme Court justice inclined to support marriage equality, Anthony Kennedy enjoyed the right of first refusal to author the Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges ; and as the on
Tech giants like eBay, Facebook and Google acknowledge that they have work to do to increase diversity, but the repetition of that sentiment shows how little has changed.
Tea Partiers say you don’t understand them because you don’t understand American history. That’s probably true, but not in the way they want you to think. Late in 2012, I came out of the Lincoln movie
PHOTOGRAPH BY MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY What a series of days in American life, full of savage mayhem, uncommon forgiveness, resistance to forgiveness, furious debate, mourning, and, finally, justice and
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