When I was in my late teens and early twenties, like most people that age I had a tremendous amount of latent energy and passion. And like so many, I was…
I wrote about my Twitter bot, other people's bots, and bots at large. Also Larry David, who is not a bot. http://t.co/WAbgbT6Ee8
— Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) February 24, 2014
From the darkness of a box in the Nevada desert, he watched as three men trudged down a dirt road in Afghanistan. The box was kept cold—precisely sixty-eight degrees—and the only light inside came fro
Trains as writers’ garrets. A postwar ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad. I am in a little sleeper cabin on a train to Chicago. Framing the window are two plush…
City illustration 'City life is as much about moving through landscapes as it is about being in them.' Illustration: Francesco Bongiorni for the Guardian Two…
I was 12 hours into a summer vacation in Palm Springs when my phone hummed to life, buzzing twice next to me in the dark of my hotel room. I squinted at the screen. It was 5:30 a.m., and a friend was texting me from the opposite coast. “Amanda, this twitter account. Freaking out over here,” she…
THE MEMOIRS OF WALTER BAGEHOT By Frank Prochaska. Yale Univ. Press. 207 pp. $38
Few people can have read the autobiographies of Edward Gibbon and John Stuart…
Bussell Wilson. Photo courtesy of Jeff Fiechtner/Seattle Seahawks. Bussell Wilson gets ready for another tailgate Sunday at CenturyLink Field. Photo courtesy…
We seem to be living in a perpetual age of the death throes of The Book. 1 There are too many pieces to count that insist that the book is dead or (despite all…
There is a version of me that loves to run. I wake up early, step onto the treadmill, crank up my terrible Spotify workout playlist, and run until I can’t…
CBC News is a secret service. I used to be the Globe and Mail’s national security reporter and I wrote a book about Canada’s spy agency, CSIS. So I know something about secret services and how they treat pesky reporters who ask prickly questions about how they operate. I had more success prying out…
The Portland Building (photo by Brian Libby)
BY BRIAN LIBBY
There is no building in Portland or perhaps even the United States that is at once so important and…
There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written. http://t.co/BbwBn9yKqW (http://t.co/3J2z00vG7k)
— Amber Case (@caseorganic) February 18, 2014
My recent, first trip to London presented me with two surprises: the reach, convenience, and frequency of the tube, and the volume of Londoners' complaints about the reach, convenience, and frequency of the tube. English friends had explained to me, not without pride, the importance of grumbling to…
With the sun (sorta) shining in Vancouver and pitchers and catchers reporting in Dunedin, I am going to have to try and treat my Olympic fever somewhat and…
Henry Grabar Valentine's Day at the New York City Transit Museum's missed connections party. On Friday, February 14th, guests to the New York City Transit Museum’s party had their pick of four subway-themed pins: "Coupled," "Local," "Express" and "Out of Service." It seemed the green "Out of…
What is the sound of one hand texting? As Soren Gordhamer patiently quieted a packed Wisdom 2.0 event in San Francisco in September for a guided meditation, a…
The Best Feng Shui Bedroom Layouts for Good Energy The practice of Feng Shui has gained popularity when it comes to creating a harmonious and positive energy flow in our living spaces. In this guide,
Renaissance man: Portrait of a Young Gentleman in His Studio by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1530. Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. Photo by Corbis I travelled with…
That summer I only listened to “Ceremony” and I remember it didn’t rain. I was nineteen years old. It was the summer after my second year at the University of…
In economics, there are few things more controversial than the price of housing.
It inspires mass protests in well-off cities such as San Francisco. It is…
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Getting more women into technical jobs is good but maybe we can also respect nontechnical jobs more https://t.co/c03Tch6018
— Rusty Foster (@rustyk5) January 10, 2014
A complete lack of tonal self-awareness pervades this romance about a lonely divorcee and an escaped convict with a gentle touch and a gift for…
Another rehash…
Local roads and bike lanes are almost exclusively paid for by local property taxes, not fuel taxes Tweet Email Print By Peter LadnerTue Jul 30, 2013 12:01am PST As the “war on bikes” continues in my little corner of our sun-drenched paradise, I’ve been trying to understand the road rage that’s…
Media reports on govt tax break 4 #SAR volunteers as incentive misses the boat; recognition of service,… http://t.co/WwTPQwyH1l
— Oplopanax (@lithohedron) February 13, 2014
For @Grantland33, I wrote about two sci-fi novels that aren't really for sci-fi people. http://t.co/hVQ11K1RAb
— Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) February 12, 2014
I first met Alex Rodriguez at the Delano, the chic South Beach hotel in his hometown of Miami. In the rear of the outdoor restaurant where I waited, a towering…
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. MT @maoxian: "Western guys holding hands w/ pint-sized Chinese princesses" http://t.co/gZMlrnZGgT
— Tina Robinson (@actualtina) November 25, 2013
We’re clearly heading into an age of brilliant technology. Computers are already impressively good at guiding driverless cars and beating humans at chess and Jeopardy. As Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology point out in their book “The Second Machine…
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Random trivia: pic of me in article http://t.co/ro2j7BhZKd was taken by @sillygwailo when we were on our way to the SkyTrain Unconference.
— Karen Quinn Fung (@counti8) January 29, 2014
Currency January 7, 2014 Photograph by View Pictures/UIG via Getty In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms in one of its wings…
Recently, Lauren wrote a really great piece on “The Balance Matrix” – a struggle many of us share, and something I’ve been working hard on my whole professional…
A few years ago, a woman named Elaine Dove tried an experiment on Craigslist. She created three ads, each with a different treatment of her racial and cultural background: "The first described me accurately: gothic, Asian-American, alternative, artistic, inquisitive, intelligent, adventurous. The…
@brownpau http://t.co/k5a3f8KCPc you get called out by full name as one of the good reactions to lame viral historypic twitter accounts!
— Matt Haughey (@mathowie) February 6, 2014
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