We’re in the Cavinder Twins’ apartment eight floors above the sun-dappled sprawl of South Florida. A blender whirrs, mixing kiwi-yogurt-almond butter smoothies. A photographer takes pictures. A repres
Michael Palin & Terry Jones's long-lost pre-Python series The Complete And Utter History Of Britain has been rediscovered and released in full on ITVX. https://t.co/BxYw3KIqSD
— British Comedy Guide (@BritishComedy)
Oct 2, 2023
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Taylor Lorenz is often trending—both because the Washington Post technology columnist has been at the forefront of understanding social media and because she’s
October 03 2023 11:16 AM 6 min read Share Email My friend had this uncle. He refused to put his scalding hot coffee in the cupholder while driving. Instead, he perched it on the dashboard. He believed
Every month, we will invite a respected China writer, scholar or analyst — as well as other public figures — to tell us what’s on their “China bookshelf”. Of…
A row of baseball hats embroidered with the names of female authors, from left to right: Lydia Davis, Rachel Kushner, Elif Batuman, Zadie Smith, Rachel Cusk. Zadie Smith. Elif Batuman. Joyce Carol Oates. Dionne Brand. Alice Munro. Patricia Lockwood. Olga Tokarczuk. Lydia Davis. Rachel Kushner.…
Journalist and activist Naomi Klein’s new book is not like her others. The Canadian author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything has just published Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror Wor
In season 5, episode 2 of Sex and the City, Carrie meets with publishers who want to turn her eponymous column about sex and relationships into a book. All she
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1862), by Emanuel Leutze. I n the opening pages of his magisterial Bay Area history, Imperial San Francisco , historian Gray Brechin presents his book as a
The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. —Ecclesiasticus 38:24 When nineteenth-century Western colonists and researchers encoun
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How can any institution be ethical when it’s an obsequious representation of the values of its extraordinarily rich funders? Follow the money. That was the dictum that propelled Woodward and Bernstein
TESCREAL—pronounced “tess-cree-all.” It’s a strange word that you may have seen pop up over the past few months. The renowned computer scientist Dr. Timnit Gebru frequently mentions the “TESCREAL” ide
This is the first of a multi-part Dig series, Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century: New Names, Old Ideas , investigating the racist underpinnings of the
Ahmed K. in Alvin Luong's "The Mystery of the Twisted Fantasy. (Alvin Luong) In his new film piece "The Mystery of the Twisted Fantasy" — which will be shown…
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Newsletter The Morning In Berlin, some marathon runners came for the party. Running clubs from around the world meeting in Berlin. Credit... Lauren Jackson/The New York Times Photographs and Text by R
The late, great Douglas Adams found writing so arduous that his publisher,Sony Mehta, was forced to take extreme measures. Nick Webb, researching his authorised biography of the author, solicited Meht
I’m a Luddite. This is not a hesitant confession, but a proud proclamation. I’m also a social scientist who studies how new technologies affect politics, economics and society. For me, Luddism is not
“The butter is the best part,” Summer Adams told me during my first visit to the Eveningstar Cinema in small-town Brunswick, Maine. “We melt it by the pound—I unwrapped some sticks today.” In a black
The other day I was replaying The Crew 2 , driving from Texas to San Francisco in my silver 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR. After passing through the epic canyons and peaks, I finally arrived at the glistenin
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Toronto Blue Jays takes the field at the 34-year-old Rogers Centre. Once a showpiece of new stadium technology, the facility once known as SkyDome is now among the oldest
One of the first artistic acts I remember is cutting things out. As a child, I would draw tiny people and cut them out with scissors, mostly for the purpose of
SCARBOROUGH, Ontario — At a tiny strip mall where the painted parking lines had faded completely some time ago, the chef at the New Kalyani restaurant effortlessly prepared one of the most exquisite treats in the Toronto area.
Pouring fermented batter into a small wok, he gripped the pan with both…
If you’re even moderately online, you’ve likely crossed paths with TraumaTok (or its cousin, TraumaGram): Lots of short videos explicating how myriad hang-ups—including perfectionism and hoarding, pe
This is how I got my bike back after it was stolen a few weeks ago.
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— Sean “Mr. X” Marshall (@Sean_YYZ)
Sep 23, 2023
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E arlier this week, Lucy May Walker, a singer-songwriter from Redditch, posted a series of modest proposals for behaviour at concerts under the title Gig
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Words by Anton Spice Sam Slater hands me a small porcelain cup. We are drinking sencha in a light wood studio on the ground floor of an old piano factory in North-East Berlin and discussing the concep
I watched this talk [1] where the presenter details their experience trying to use modern digital devices while living on a boat with little to zero connectivity. It soon became obvious that all the t
This jaded mapping curmudgeon has been in the industry a good few years and as a result has witnessed a few mapping epochs — the dawn of global digital street maps, the dawn of internet mapping and th
I bought a brown sweater recently. A brown sweater, of course, is boring. Brown is a boring colour, a sweater a boring garment — it pips the much-maligned cardigan to the post because a cardigan is so
IF, PRESENTED WITH all the ice cream flavors in the world, you ask for vanilla, you are making a declaration: “Not for me a life of adventure. I choose the road more taken.” This is the default, the dead end, where imagination is extinguished. In idiomatic usage, per the dictionary, “vanilla” (or,…
A Viking village... yes, but built in 2010 for a film, it's a movie set.
Might want to mention that.
Yes, let's buy it and move in, start our own Viking themed settlement!
https://t.co/BkkXcpR2N8 https://t.co/QAJGzhSJyS
— Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunt)
Sep 9, 2023
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Beyond Concrete guest editor Brian Sholis talks with Matthew Gandy, author of Natura Urbana, about the ecology of concrete, engineered versus spontaneous
A few years ago, the discussion forum Hacker News, where engineers collectively decide what other engineers should read, developed a quirk. A new phrase had entered the coder lexicon, and it seemed to
There’s a common line among urbanists and advocates of car-free cities to the effect that all the nice places people go to for tourism are car-light, so why not have that at home? It’s usually phrased