My daily routine is a strange attractor. Every morning, I decide whether to hit one of the cafes on my regular circuit or work at the desk I rent from a local business. After lunch, and sometimes a nap, I pick a different location for my second work session. My most frequent cafe choices are as…

cdrin / Shutterstock Intercultural Urbanism is an interdisciplinary perspective on city planning and design that investigates the relationship between cultural diversity and built form. It seeks to identify what people of different cultural backgrounds value in the built environment, as well as the…

"Checked the tax code," wrote a friend who's engaged to a woman from a low-tax country. "Unfortunately, marrying [my fiancee] does not entitle me to a tax inversion like the big US companies are getti

You may notice that a lot of things happen to do with sexism on the internet. Sometimes someone has done a sexist thing and people are talking about it.

Justine Zwiebel/BuzzFeed/Photos courtesy of the author In the dream I am in my childhood home. I am standing in the doorframe of my sister Margaret's room, watching her unpack her bags from a semester at college. For some reason she is always returning from a semester at college, even though she'd…

So, I thought, if Marvel can change Thor's gender, could game publishers do the same with their own male heroes? http://e14t.ca/1rh3Q7q — Keith Stuart (@keefstuart) July 16, 2014 Tweeted by @keefstuart

Chinese Animated Feature Trailer 我的师父姜子牙 Master Jiang and the Six Kingdoms http://e14t.ca/W4FJfa — Xalk (@xalking) July 14, 2014 Tweeted by @xalking

Coincidence! When @itsmarkmedley went to Iceland & met my dear friend Bryndis Loftsdottir! http://e14t.ca/1kQsnIP @Sjonorama @AndriMagnason — Anakana Schofield (@AnakanaSchofiel) July 13, 2014 Tweeted by @AnakanaSchofiel

Why Twitter’s new analytics could turn us all into stat-hungry engagement addicts http://e14t.ca/1zwXByy — Luca Filigheddu (@filos) July 12, 2014 Tweeted by @filos

In a recent article for Polygon, Ben Kuchera described David O’Reilly’s Mountain as “a one dollar video game that seems to be laughing at people who strain to find meaning in abstract indie titles.” This is a problem. Press enter or click to view image in full size Mountain by David O’Reilly (2014)…

Just wrote this piece on what I’ve learned trying to work with startups out of Myanmar. https://t.co/lfm5OQnfnr — Adrianna Tan (@skinnylatte) May 26, 2014

So @austin_walker interviewed some Twitch marketing folks and also a pro streamer about how streamers do/don't make $ http://e14t.ca/1qVInAJ — Maddy Myers (@samusclone) July 9, 2014 Tweeted by @samusclone

At this point, I'm impressed with the sheer breadth and scope of Justice Minister Peter MacKay's ineptitude. These days he's wrong about so many things and manages to communicate this wrongness in so many mediums, I'm in awe. The man is wrong everywhere! He just keeps popping up wrong! Peter MacKay…

A tiny talking mountain is actually making my life better: http://e14t.ca/1o63DPd — Kotaku (@Kotaku) July 2, 2014 Tweeted by @Kotaku

The creator of the game in the movie 'Her' to release a "relax'em up" Mountain Simulator: http://e14t.ca/1pfCImE http://e14t.ca/1pfCGLt — PSFK (@PSFK) June 18,

Anakana Schofield reviews American Innovations, by Rivka Galchen: http://t.co/bgbAMGUijF — National Post Books (@npbooks) May 12, 2014

Culture Desk June 10, 2014 In the 1988 blockbuster “Die Hard,” Bruce Willis plays John McClane, a tough New York cop thrust into the bright, alien, and permissive world of Los Angeles, where, intending to reconcile with his estranged wife over Christmas, he instead finds himself battling a crew of…

"Emoji’s charm is in how broken and inadequate it is." @PJVogt nailed it. http://e14t.ca/1pdq2ee — Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) June 17, 2014 Tweeted by @knguyen

Charting the decline of 'BREAKING NEWS. Great read of how trivial a term this has become. http://e14t.ca/1pUBuz6 — Aaron McArthur (@Aaron_GlobalBC) June 21, 2014 Tweeted by @Aaron_GlobalBC

Spent an (awesome) first week working w/ @transitapp via the @realventures Fellowship and this is what I learned: http://e14t.ca/1p0UXOZ — Steph Parrott (@pizzapocketpop) June 20, 2014 Tweeted by @pizzapocketpop

UPDATE: Back, if only briefly, to correct some misinformation in the now-edited post below. (My fault for not double-checking on some facts from my original source.) MLA Spencer Chandra-Herbert notes correctly that the NDP did in fact oppose the legislation that establishes the commission and its…

In the recent Frontline documentary “Generation Like,” Doug Rushkoff lamented that today’s youth don’t even know what the term “sell-out” means. While this

Are you passionate about your job? Stop it at once. It's dangerous. My column http://t.co/EzI6w3DQsp via @FT — Lucy Kellaway (@lucykellaway) June 8, 2014

Ever wonder why the Lawrence and Topeka stations in Kansas look so similar? After World War II, the Santa Fe Railway wanted to don a new look , so they

The fallacy of tech solutionism to social problems. “Focus on redistribution, not finding or designing solutions.” http://e14t.ca/1lzkXxr — Alex Payne (@al3x) June 14, 2014 Tweeted by @al3x

Just re-read @lippytak's brilliant post, "People, not data." http://e14t.ca/1hUwwzH Worth re-reading frequently! — Tim O'Reilly (@timoreilly) June 14, 2014 Tweeted by @timoreilly

ICYMI, What 5 means for Tim Duncan. http://e14t.ca/SWmzGo On sweatpants, greatness, and eternity. — Eye on Basketball (@EyeOnBasketball) June 14, 2014 Tweeted by @EyeOnBasketball

Strong Towns would like to introduce Neil Salmond as a new regular contributor. Neil is a renewable energy consultant from Vancouver , BC. He is a member and

I wrote about how Jose Bautista is once again destroying baseballs, and that we should notice this: http://t.co/Mf3qxbrlUH — Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) May 13, 2014

I spent almost 6 months researching online harassment for @WIRED. Here’s what I learned about how to stop it: http://t.co/rQOWzNVvkn #icymi — Laura Hudson (@laura_hudson) May 15, 2014

Opinion WHEN I was 7 years old, I knew the capitals of most major countries and their currencies. I had to, if I wanted to track down a devious criminal mastermind in the computer game “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?” On screen, the ACME Detective Agency would spit out clues like notable…

IN HIGH MAINTENANCE, a sly, genre-busting web series created by husband-and-wife team Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, the protagonist, an unnamed pot dealer

Shocked by those anti homeless spikes? Ever wonder why benches have armrests in the middle? http://t.co/pBV1LnC9uf — Tim Maly (@doingitwrong) June 7, 2014

Jeff Chang is the executive director for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He has written two books on hip-hop in America, Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. I spoke with Chang about Apple’s acquisition of Beats…

The Sporting Scene June 3, 2014 “Jürgen Klinsmann’s Soccer Mandate,” by Cameron Abadi. If you talk with Germans about Jürgen Klinsmann’s ill-fated stint as the coach of F.C. Bayern Munich, it’s only a matter of time until they bring up the matter of the Buddha statues. After arriving in July of 2008…