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Photo: Bobby Doherty Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who had recently published a column in a school newspaper about his perspective as a minority on campus. The students, who were recorded on a…

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Whether it’s cucumbers splashing into water or models sitting smugly next to a pile of vegetables, it’s tough not to be sucked in by the detox industry. The idea that you can wash away your calorific sins is the perfect antidote to our fast-food lifestyles and alcohol-lubricated social lives. But…

110 Years of TNR 7The Ghost of Cornel West8Hello, My Name Is Stephen Glass, and I’m Sorry9Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League View All What was the biggest scandal in TNR history? Was it the 1994 publication of Charles Murray’s and Richard Herrnstein’s “Race, Genes and I.Q.,” an excerpt from their…

It is 4.18am. In the fireplace, where logs burned, there are now orange lumps that will soon be ash. Orion the Hunter is above the hill. Taurus, a sparkling V, is directly overhead, pointing to the Se

Do the Math: How much of your time is spent online consuming things made by other people versus time spent making something of your own? Using Wikipedia’s “Wikipedians” as a general compass, only .01 — .02 % of their audience creates (contributes) to their community. Everyone else, statistically…

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Taylor has called 1989 her “first documented, official pop album,” but her sharp pop instincts have been fully fledged since the beginning of her country crossover career. Swift’s new album is named both for the year of her birth and to signify an era in music, and she has cited Annie Lennox and…

It’s impossible to review Lena Dunham’s book without reviewing Lena Dunham. Or at least, “Lena Dunham”, the strange, confected, caricatured, endlessly examined carapace inside which, presumably, the real woman resides. Dunham’s first appearance in print came in 1998, when a Vogue story on New York…

Annals of Enterprise The Disruption Machine June 16, 2014 Disruption is a theory of change founded on panic, anxiety, and shaky evidence.Illustration by Brian Stauffer In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that…

Today on Rookie, @Charles_Aaron gives teenage dudes advice about growing up in a patriarchy, and OF COURSE it slays. http://t.co/pnZtKVbsbS

News Analysis Credit...Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection - From Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits (PowerHouse Books, 2013) RECENTLY, I came across a great find in a Vermont antiques store: an old black-and-white photograph of a female pilot on a mountaintop, her aviator glasses pushed up on her forehead,…

I am in a band that was born on the internet. Although Chvrches formed and began writing in October 2011, we made our first wobbly steps into the public realm by posting a song on Neon Gold music blog in May last year. Since then, the blogosphere and social networks have arguably been the key…

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Photo of Trayvon Martin taken in August 2011. (AP Photo/Martin Family) One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions. After a nearly all-white jury

Comedy Central Todd Sattersten 5 min read· May 14, 2013 -- Stephen Colbert opened his October 25th, 2011 show with his normal exuberance. He bragged about his special early access to the iPhone, the iPad, and the iV (a product that feeds the Internet directly into your veins; he assured us a short…

Warner Bros. Pictures Alex Leo 5 min read· May 14, 2013 -- It’s too much. The movie has been out less than a week, and you already feel like it’s consumed as much air as three seasons of Girls combined. But try to relax — I won’t yell. I love Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and thought the movie was fine. The…

My only complain about the Fitbit tracker is that it requires a Windows/Mac OS PC or a Bluetooth 4.0 iOS device to sync and I use none of those on a daily basis.

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While predictions of the future can never be absolutely certain, present scientific understanding in various fields has enabled the course of the far future to be plotted if only in the broadest outlines. These fields include astrophysics, which has revealed how planets and stars form, interact and…

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11 P.M.: ONE SATURDAY NIGHT IN APRIL, BRINGING THE SHITSHOW When you see the entrance to Marquee at 11 P.M. on a Saturday, you know why the promoters call this process "bringing the shitshow." Massing

intense fear businessman ... Worry is a relational phenomenon. If other people in a group are unwilling to share the burdens of that group, then the person who does identify problems and try to solve them has to bear the weight of those problems alone. Anxiety gets bad press but identifying problems…

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Every single afternoon (and you could set your watch by it really) I stop whatever I’m doing and I look at all of your Facebook photos.

This is a response to a recent blowup over a grad student discovering and examining a group of Twitter users. The mere existence of this post will piss someone off. I think. Maybe they’re just joking. Whatevs. What is Weird Twitter? “Weird Twitter” is, simply, a loose group of Twitter users who…

Friendship They live in a different state and aren't involved in the day-to-day of your life which makes things difficult. You begin to dread these catch up sessions because not only do they take forever but there's this underlying tension you are both trying so hard to avoid. The more you try to…

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So Terry here tells me you want to learn how to comment on the internet. You want to get involved “in the conversation.” Sit down. How old are you? Seventeen, huh. I gotta say, you’re a little late to

Though there are many moments that construct a friendship over years, through all kinds of shared experiences and emotions, there are 10 in a best friendship that make you realize, whether in the moment or with the perspective of time, how lucky you are to have them. 1. Telling a secret and knowing…

I don’t remember the missionaries’ names, only that one was blond and one was dark, one was from Oregon and one was from Utah. They arrived at our house on secondhand bicycles carrying bundles of inspirational literature. They smelled, I remember, of witch hazel and toothpaste. The blond one, whose…

Drug dealers from the future look a lot friendlierScoring drugs is one of life’s great pains in the ass. Either a friend knows some guy who lives in some dodgy neighborhood full of people sharpening t

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