How public benches can turn a street into a place of connection: https://t.co/afQTl2m9o6 — Project for Public Spaces (@PPS_Placemaking) Nov 5, 2023 Tweeted by @PPS_Placemaking

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In 2015, Google hatched a plan to save the mobile web by effectively taking it over. And for a while, the media industry had practically no choice but to play along. It began on a cheery October morning in New York City; the company had gathered the press together at a buzzy breakfast spot named…

Black Life: Untold Stories is an epic eight-part documentary series that reframes the rich and complex histories of Black people in Canada over 400 years. Watch now on CBC Gem. Each episode is directed by a different director, who shares their experience in a series of video essays. Montreal…

In January of this year, over the objections of players, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced that a pitch clock would be introduced in the…

Subscriber Only Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version We are in the midst of a reconsideration of the automobile. Cities experimenting with carless downtowns make the rounds on social media every few weeks, to a chorus of “why don’t we do this?” Urbanists trace a significant portion of the…

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A year and a half into Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s ambitions have become clear to all. Both expert and public opinion accept that his goal, at the very least, is to reassert Moscow’s control over all the former lands of the Soviet Union. What is yet to be understood is,…

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@nytimes WaPo's effort to provide a resource to educate readers largely edifies w/o misinforming or cheerleading /5 https://t.co/gPuDRQwfUm — Critical AI : first issue coming in Aug. 23! :) (@CriticalAI) May 25, 2023 Tweeted by @CriticalAI

Exploring The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy film - Part 2 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Image shows from L to R: Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell),…

It's #TowelDay, celebrating writer Douglas Adams. Here's our new long-read two part look into the 'development hell' he went through to try and make a Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy film: https://t.co/ldIcDVVFJ8 https://t.co/r7Msq31Kc6 — British Comedy Guide (@BritishComedy) May 25, 2023 …

Shouts & Murmurs May 8, 2023 Photograph by Martin Parr / Magnum You learn the alphabet from an eight-foot-tall yellow anthropomorphic bird that irrevocably imprints on you. Big Bird may as well be your dad. You move on to bigger birds (i.e., dinosaurs) and take an intense interest in pterodactyls.…

OpinionGuest Essay Credit... Photographs and Text by Ms. Fezehai is a Swedish Eritrean photographer and visual reporter based in Nairobi, Kenya. Oct. 6, 2023 As a child of mixed-race heritage, I often found that my hair was a source of tension between my mother and me. My father hails from Eritrea…

The novel is, by definition, formally heteropessimist: gesturing towards queerness at the levels of narrative, style, and perspective while resolving upon

“Heterosexuality always embarrasses me,” Maggie Nelson admits in The Argonauts, a book once so rabidly popular among women and queers that my first copy was swiped from my bag at a dyke bar in 2016. Nelson’s confession has always struck me as diagnostic of our current moment, in which indictments of…

Columns The high-concept futurist talks about embracing their human side, confronting their inner-child, and the surprising influences—including Avril Lavigne and My Chemical Romance—behind their new album, softscars. September 11, 2023 Photo by Neil Krug. Image by Marina Kozak. “This is a girl…

"Females, however, and effeminate men enjoy having people to wail with them" — Aristotle 1 Around the time I turned thirty, I was dating the most magnetic man

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 representative from the Twins’ sports-marketing agency, always scouting for content, takes pictures of the…

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 Tweeted by @BritishComedy

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…

For $27 (not including tax and shipping), you can own a baseball cap embroidered with the name of your favorite literary darling, too. Do you also read female writers? Me too!Credit...Minor Canon By Oct. 9, 2023 Zadie Smith. Elif Batuman. Joyce Carol Oates. Dionne Brand. Alice Munro. Patricia…

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 World, which traces her journey being mistaken for Naomi Wolf, formerly a liberal feminist known for…

Credit...David La Spina for The New York Times It might have been the greatest year of individual achievement in major-league history. Will we ever see anything like it again? Credit...David La Spina for The New York Times By Bruce Schoenfeld has been writing about baseball for over 30 years. Sept.…

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. In the opening pages of his magisterial Bay Area history, Imperial San Francisco, historian Gray Brechin presents his book as an attempt “to answer the question raised by the kind of cities we build today: Are they worth it?”…

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

Humans and technology Could electronic forests elicit the same physiological responses as real ones? By June 26, 2023 When a group of Czech scientists compared the effects of experiencing a forest near Prague and a digital scanned version of it in VR, participants experienced the same level of…

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 5993 [post_author] => 15 [post_date] => 2023-09-14 12:10:10 [post_date_gmt] => 2023-09-14 12:10:10 [post_content] => 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…

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” ideologies on social media, and for a while the Twitter profile of billionaire venture capitalist Marc…

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 Reporting from Berlin Sept. 24, 2023 The marathon runners were wearing neon and sipping beers. They had…

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 a naive feeling, but a considered position. And once you know what Luddism actually stands for, I’m…