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!
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— 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
I am amused that BC United is cited offhand alongside New Coke and X as a particularly disastrous rebranding https://t.co/uComJFKS3E
— Stephen Tweedale | @stephentweedale@mstdn.ca (@stephentweedale)
Sep 5, 2023
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Newsletter The Morning Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer. But we don’t have to be so doctrinaire about it. Credit... María Jesús Contreras By Sept. 2, 2023, 6:51 a.m. ET This weeken
The first thing ever searched on Google was the name “Gerhard Casper,” a former Stanford president. As the story goes , in 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin…
60% of British Columbians (-1 since June 2021) believe it is a “very good” or “good” idea for Vancouver to host an @MLB team.
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— Mario Canseco (@mario_canseco)
Aug 30, 2023
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Editor’s Note: This week’s edition of REFRAME features Adrienne Maree-Brown who, in responding to Jeff Chang’s Call on the changing demographics and its…
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. (Photo: yuan2003 / Flickr ) You, dear reader, are on the front lines of a war. It is a
Wu Haiyun Editor Wu Haiyun is a chief editor at Sixth Tone. She has a Ph.D. in cultural studies from East China Normal University, and was a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. This is
Just in time for the PNE, I wrote about the history of Hastings-Sunrise for @MONTECRISTO_Mag.
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— Kevin Chong (@thatkevinchong)
Aug 26, 2023
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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
Ginger Goodwin making a speech on Jan. 1, 1916. Source: Cumberland Museum and Archives. The broad outline of Ginger Goodwin’s story is well known to many of…
A so-called flowerheadz vase by Hugh Findletar inspired by the face of his friend Sara Nozza. The vase is one of 12 pieces Mr. Findletar is showing at an upcoming group art show at Bergdorf Goodman in
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
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Seth Simons | Longreads | August 17, 2023 | 15 minutes (4,165 words)…
Our new issue, “Aging,” is out now. Follow this link for $20 introductory print subscriptions! Israel’s Occupation Is the Obstacle to Peace Bashir Abu-Manneh The Empire Calls Back Alexander Zaitchik C
When the iPhone launched on June 29, 2007, it did so without any third-party apps, much to the chagrin of its customers and the skeptical tech press. The original iPhone only had 15 native apps, and u
Rumors of San Francisco's death have been greatly exaggerated
Great deep-dive from Michael Gennaro on this trope that SF is in terminal decline, killed by liberal decadence and permissiveness. As he writes @CourthouseNews, the reality is more complicated: https://t.co/lSoxWGvReL
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This First Person column is written by Bill Chow, a second-generation Canadian who is a teacher in Mississauga, Ont. For more information about CBC's First…
I have started a new thing where I take a close look at the first 5 minutes of an S1E1, starting with Sex Education. What happens? What do we learn about the characters? Their relationships? What questions are set-up? Let me know what you think! https://t.co/k5OBGIdsym https://t.co/aW4OXBMO6Y
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Getty Images/Marvel Studios/Ringer illustration My first memorable experience with a pop culture jerk was with Vegeta of the seminal anime series Dragon Ball Z . The prince of a near-extinct race of w
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty On Monday afternoon, the official Instagram account of writer and performer Paul Reubens released a statement that he’d passed away the prev
For the first thirty years of my life, I lived within a one-mile radius of Willesden Green Tube Station. It’s true I went to college—I even moved to East London for a bit—but such interludes were brie
When starting a new job as a software engineer, it’s natural to feel the pressure of delivering immediate value and meeting the expectations of your role.…
S tanford engineering professor and renewable energy expert Mark Z Jacobson tweeted the other day, “Given that scientists who study 100% renewable energy
Enlarge / A photo of the 2023 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia on the author's family room shelf. Benj Edwards These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to po
Me, when I see the photos Iceland's only forensic pathologist provided to illustrate the news story about the science of murder class he teaches to Icelandic mystery writers:
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— Catherine Winters (@CatherineOmega)
Jul 23, 2023
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We encourage introverts to act like extroverts instead of acting like their best selves. Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking There's a huge misconce
Late one night after a show in 1998, Timbaland received a phone call. On the other end was Barry Hankerson, Aaliyah’s manager and uncle, asking Tim to produce the lead single for the Dr. Doolittle sou
Last summer, Anna, 24, was dumped by a longtime friend over text. While making plans to meet up, the friend pivoted and told Anna she wanted to end their five-year friendship. When Anna asked if it wa
For “Routine Excellence,” GQ asks creative, successful people about the practices and habits that get them through their day. “When I was 28, let’s say, I had a lot of opinions about routines,” says E
Conservative media outlets responded to Olivia Chow’s mayoral election victory in Toronto last month by completely losing their minds. Before Chow was even sworn in, the Toronto Sun put out flamboyant
World / July 24, 2023 Toronto’s new mayor ran and won on a progressive platform. Facebook Twitter Email Flipboard Pocket Olivia Chow speaks to supporters on bicycles on the morning of her swearing in
Illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo/Slate Like many folks who had been cooped up at home at the start of the pandemic, I got in the habit of taking long walks around my Brooklyn neighborhood. I told
When fashion designer Anu Raina first moved to Toronto in 2004, she was captivated by the intersection of Dundas Street and Spadina Avenue. While holding her son’s hand that afternoon, for Raina, the
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