10 Female-Directed Movies to Look Forward to in 2015 http://t.co/QJVsa4FmyS pic.twitter.com/nhWG16GrLL — The Mary Sue (@TheMarySue) January 12, 2015 Tweeted by @TheMarySue

Louis XIV has been enthroned on a horse on the Place des Victoire in Paris since 1828. However, the Sun King had to reconquer his place on the streets of the French capital, after his statue was melte

Q: A recent conversation with a friend stimulated this question. He had just watched the Ben Stiller film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on TV, knows I visited Iceland in 2009 and wanted to talk about it. My wife and I saw the film earlier when it first hit our local movie theater and we like it a…

Published 22 December 2014 Share page About sharing Cult novel Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, has been adapted for radio. Here Neil Gaiman tells the story of how it came to be written. For the uninitiated, Good Omens is a story about how the world is going to end next Saturday. Just…

This just in: We owe Carlos Delgado an apology. You think Hall of Fame election week didn't go so hot for Edgar Martinez, or Jeff Kent, or Alan Trammell? Heck, they had an awesome week compared to Delgado. Of all the victims of this messed up voting system, he's the biggest. This was his first year…

This image was removed due to legal reasons. There are rules in the physical world about what can and cannot happen. Newton might have described some of them, but all humans learn about what is possib

This image was removed due to legal reasons. Over the holidays, my wife and I packed up our son for our annual voyage to Portland to visit my family. Expecting rain, we stayed in an Airbnb with a glor

I'm on @sparkcbc (CBC's tech radio show) talking about @YearlyAwards, Random Shopper & general bot stuff! Listen here http://t.co/nAKqxrNaVI — Darius Kazemi (@tinysubversions) January 9, 2015 Tweeted by @tinysubversions

Illustration by Stephen Maurice Graham As if Silicon Valley hasn't given us enough already, it may have to start giving us all money. The first indication I…

PHOTOS: Shutterbug captures readers on transit. Yes! http://t.co/h8gIgxHohy pic.twitter.com/HSDKKMzBdC via @Slate #seenreading — Julie Wilson (@SeenReading) January 10, 2015 Tweeted by @SeenReading

The Nickel Tour:  Bike lanes are beneficial at all levels of income and across races. But to established communities, it doesn’t feel that way. What needs to

Major League Baseball umpire Dale Scott bleeds the green and yellow of his beloved Oregon Ducks football team, having gone to games since the Johnson Administration. He has two black Labs, Roman and Rollie, who rule his world. Using his skills as a former DJ, he has recorded the voice mail greetings…

It’s 11 o'clock on a Tuesday morning. Usually at this hour, I’d be stepping out of my office for an absurdly early lunch, but not today. Today, I find myself leaning into my computer screen in the most isolated corner of The Atlantic's kitchen, hoping that no one stumbles in as I try to watch a…

The Clone Wars Legacy 22:24 Obi-Wan and Anakin’s investigation on Utapau continues, and they allow themselves to be captured by weapons dealers who possess a

In the movie Her, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture this year, a middle-aged writer named Theodore Twombly installs and rapidly falls in love

The physical health benefits of writing http://t.co/6CPjjSoyb3 — Tavis Rudd (@tavisrudd) January 4, 2015 Tweeted by @tavisrudd

Phew...good to know! MT: The return of the newsletter (Wired UK) http://t.co/l3Dj3w8HxP (TOP 10 curated newsletters to subscribe to) — Goodbits (@goodbitsio) January 2, 2015 Tweeted by @goodbitsio

Let literature lead you to some of the country’s coolest towns—by heading where independent shops are thriving By Emily Raabe Dec. 26, 2014 6:07 pm ET SEEKS VOLUMES | The reportedly haunted Moby Dicke

Excited to announce that @WealthBar is now available Canada wide! http://t.co/9FtPf9jLFy — Chris Nicola (@chrismnicola) January 5, 2015 Tweeted by @chrismnicola

Thomas Piketty has written a book called Capital that has caused quite a stir. He advocates progressive taxation and a global wealth tax as the only way to counter the trend towards the creation of a “patrimonial” form of capitalism marked by what he dubs “terrifying” inequalities of wealth and…

Cities Skylines is what happens when the Finnish developers of Cities in Motion stare in mild disbelief at the crock of shod that was EA's most recent Sim City and think "hey, we could do better than that, or at the very least we could make a Cities sequel that directly addresses the most notable…

A ritual is any meaningful or symbolic behavior that we believe helps us face a situation or overcome an obstacle. Here’s how to use the power of “small rituals” to improve your confidence and motivation. Our daily lives are filled with small rituals that we believe benefit our lives, such as…

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The game ends in nuclear war only about 5 percent of the time. That’s a good thing. It gives Ananda Gupta faith in humanity. The game is called Twilight Struggle, and it’s the top-ranked board game in the world. It occupies the No. 1 spot on the authoritative gaming-world website BoardGameGeek.…

"claiming that a [transit] project you favor will reduce congestion is unwise" http://t.co/fjG7hjW701 — neil21 (@neil21) December 19, 2014 Tweeted by @neil21

“A typical person would be in considerable pain & might not be able to walk. John McClane’s not your typical person.” http://t.co/h4VvZWbX2W — &ruhee (@ruhee_) December 18, 2014 Tweeted by @ruhee_

This is a fantastic long read by @hansdezwart about privacy, surveillance, technology, and the future. https://t.co/vM9ieLeKo4 — Brad Frost (@brad_frost) January 2, 2015 Tweeted by @brad_frost

A super ambitious alternate reality game launches this year, putting collaborative problem solving at its centre. http://t.co/FBlhOKKzMw — Denim & Steel (@DenimAndSteel) January 3, 2015 Tweeted by @DenimAndSteel

What are we to make of Pharrell Williams’s latest video for “It Girl,” which features the hip-hop star singing, “Hold my hand, and moan again, I’ma hold that…

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Think about Cubans this Christmas with an interesting article about Cuban baseball players: http://t.co/O9yKceGTvD — Jay McCarthy (@jeapostrophe) December 25, 2014 Tweeted by @jeapostrophe

More good stuff on the influence of fiction. > How Reading Transforms Us http://t.co/G70sY2QsFg — Julie Wilson (@SeenReading) December 30, 2014 Tweeted by @SeenReading

The last time Frank Rich had a conversation with Chris Rock was in early 1996, when they and the 1950s teen heartthrob Pat Boone were thrown together in a New York television studio as panelists on Bill Maher’s old show Politically Incorrect. This time they had two conversations in a New York hotel…

"From the very beginning, Uber attracted drivers with a bait-and-switch." https://t.co/xt1EEvaVr6 Just wait until self-driving @Uber cars. — Anil Dash (@anildash) September 21, 2014 Tweeted by @anildash

March 13, 2013 at 12:33am Home Via Anne Galloway on Twitter, I just saw Living With Less. A Lot Less, an opinion piece in the New York Times. I run into some version of this essay by some moneybags twig-bishop about once a year, and it bugs me every time. Here’s the thing. Wealth is not a number of…