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Outrage porn is annother us/them narrative. It solves little & hides much of importance. http://t.co/4snsgAZeJo by @hermanos via @slowdecade
— Tim Maly (@doingitwrong) November 12, 2013
There is no question I’m asked more often than “how do you find the time to read so much?” or “how can I find more time to read?” Let me share with you how I find time to read, learn, and give myself an advantage. Everyone looks at my reading list and assumes that I either have no life or…
The Obstruction In a recent episode of the Giant Bomb podcast, co-host Drew Scanlon brought up a rather bizarre play that happened in Game 3 of the World…
Joe Stack had simply had enough. Every time this fifty-three-year-old independent engineer and software consultant from Austin, Texas, had set aside any money at all for retirement, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seemed to change the tax laws or whittled away at his earnings with new…
At Bókin, the used bookstore in 101 Reykjavik where Bobby Fischer spent his endgame, the clutter goes all the way up to the ceiling, from which hang collages of magazine clippings picturing Halldor Laxness and the great beauties of the world (an eighties-era Miss Iceland poses with the collected…
ABC When I was five years old, my two sisters, my parents, and I lived in a canvas tent on the side of a mountain in Western Montana for a month and a half. During that time, and with the help of our extended family, we built most of the cabin that would become our family vacation home. One of my…
Words by Tweet Steindór Steindórsson used to play his home country’s most popular sports, football and handball, but the tall and stocky 16-year-old now prefers baseball, one of the more unorthodox sports in Iceland. “I’ve been playing sports since I was small, and this was different from casual…
Opinion Credit...Kurt McRobert SAN FRANCISCO — EVERYBODY who knows me knows that I love cycling and that I’m also completely freaked out by it. I got into the sport for middle-aged reasons: fat; creaky knees; the delusional vanity of tight shorts. Registering for a triathlon, I took my first ride in…
Getty Images CHICAGO - JULY 23: Barbara Amiel Black arrives for her husband Conrad Black's bond hearing at federal court on July 23, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Black was released from a prison in Florida on Wednesday after posting a $2 million bond while he appeals the 6 1/2 year sentence he…
What happens on a porn set has always held more interest for me than what's in the videos and pictures. It's what led me to briefly get into porn myself. This was an incredibly minor act in my working life, but it afforded me the chance to look where I most wanted to look: behind the camera, off the…
Gray Matter Credit...Anders Nilsen HUMAN beings are social animals. But just as important, we are socially constrained as well. We can probably thank the latter trait for keeping our fledgling species alive at the dawn of man. Five core social instincts, I have argued, gave structure and strength to…
As an Angeleno, no matter of how brief a standing, you tend to want to steer visitors away from Olvera Street. I, for my part, have caught myself wanting to…
A New Way to Look at Competitors http://t.co/2b9E7KlPeI (via @byosko) cc @trevoro re: the diagram we started drawing
— Boris Mann (@bmann) November 9, 2013
Stop making sense, that won’t sell papers. “@hljboss: There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster. https://t.co/GldEKM5iTR”
— Cam Cavers (@camcavers) November 1, 2013
Designing a team logo should be easy, shouldn't it? Draw the animal, historical tough guy, profession or object that represents the team. Add a letter or symbol to represent the region: a D for Detroit, an arch for St. Louis, a star for Texas or sunny colors for Florida. Frame it in a circle, cap or…
#ExploreMB: Baseball in Winnipeg: The Goldeyes at Shaw Park by @BCRobyn http://t.co/q2TlEX9gFd @Wpg_Goldeyes @TourismWPG
— Travel Manitoba (@TravelManitoba) November 8, 2013
firecrackers I received an interesting research question this week, “Why are fireworks only allowed in BC and Nova Scotia at Halloween?” Never given it much…
Get more interviews like this—plus fiction, poetry, art, and more—and subscribe to The Paris Review today! Vancouver, British Columbia, sits just on the far…
In her dressing room at Conan O'Brien's late-night show, the 6'8" women's-basketball wunderkind Brittney Griner is flipping through a rolling rack of men's shirts with one of her very large hands—they're bigger than LeBron James'—while also keeping her eyes on the iPhone she's palming in the other.…
Matt Ward is a designer and educator. I write here: http://t.co/yOFVaaJU and show strange speculative work here: http://is.gd/qdLuAS At the moment I’m terrified…
Whether you take transit or drive, if you live in Metro #YVR this article by @garymasonglobe is a must read! http://t.co/1Th1GOpWr9
— Jason Johnston (@leftcoastcanuck) November 5, 2013
Instead of reading the “Silicon Valley Has An Arrogance Problem” article, watch the original talk. It’s more subtle http://t.co/YWCJrv7y7V
— Parveen Kaler (@kaler) November 4, 2013
When I arrived in Los Angeles, I conducted my daily exploration of the city on a bicycle, which remains, as a result, my primary mode of transportation. (The…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — At 2:44 p.m. on a recent Sunday, Tim Burke took a moment from monitoring numerous N.F.L. games for the sports Web site Deadspin to post…
I wanted to find the best cover of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” on YouTube, but it turns out that’s not as easy as it sounds. Since I last discussed my fondness…
The Ender’s Game movie premieres today, nearly 30 years after Orson Scott Card’s science fiction classic was published. The film, in development for almost half that time, does not lack star power. The story is about a dystopian future in which pubescent boys and girls are recruited to lead armies…
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You have the right to remain silent, or to take the song lyrics you found stapled to a telephone pole and recite them to a…
Kate Kiefer Lee M ost of us go to our inboxes to read things like personal notes from our friends and family, invitations to birthday parties and weddings,…
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