Torben Hansen/Flickr The widest bridge in the world, the Vancouver-area Port Mann span, is failing its debut in a spectacular fashion. Should Stephen King ever seek a sequel to Christine , perhaps he should look into recent events on the widest bridge in the world, the Vancouver-area Port Mann span.…

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News and Interviews Posted by Goodreads on January 2, 2013 George Saunders writes about the many dehumanizing and threatening aspects of modern life—and somehow he makes it all hilarious. Best known for his short story collections, including Pastoralia and Civilwarland in Bad Decline, Saunders…

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On Christmas Day, my wife and I walked into downtown Portland’s Regal Fox Tower, one of many such multiplexes Regal Cinemas operates. It’s a nice theater, with comfy seats, sharp screens, and friendly staff. I’m told the local owners are hip people, and this is evidenced by the oddball/artsy films…

Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. There was no joy in the White House on Christmas day in 1862. December had been calamitous for President Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort. At Fredericksburg, Va., on Dec. 13, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside suffered the most horrific Union defeat to…

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Editor’s Note July 2016: Since Alyse’s recent tiny houses article was such a hit, we decided to bring back this popular post from 2012. Get ready to drool over more darling homes and learn from the pe

Science & technology | Internet gaming Clever cheating apps to make word-game players look smarter |3 min read By G.F. | SEATTLE WORD games reward people with a vast vocabulary and the ability to sort a jumble of letters into the most unusual concatenations. Cheating is hard because consulting a…

For a while now, I’ve been dissatisfied with our shared mental models around the creative destruction being unleashed by the Internet. On the one hand, we have coarse-grained and abstract models based on long-term historical cycles and precedents. This is the sort of thing I’ve explored quite a bit…

Well, that didn’t take long. Two days into the new year, having barely had time to celebrate that we survived 2012 despite the apocalyptic predictions, we are being introduced to the new Thing to Be Feared for 2013: Iceland. And not by some crackpot reality show; by PBS. No, Iceland is not, as far…

I’ve apparently been given Zadie Smith’s personal number in New York, which I discover when she answers at this late hour with a simple, relaxed, “Hello?”, like she’s expecting a call from an old friend. Discovering I’m not a friend, but in fact, the guy from The Rumpus, there’s a minor, charming…

Hotel Le Germain ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hotel Le Germain is a style, luxury boutique hotel in the heart of the Entertainment District. The hotel boasts the fine indoor decor of many of the Toronto boutique hotels. This resort is a large hit with its cutting-edge structure and myriad artwork in visitor rooms, foyer,…

ADVERTISEMENT Sign Up for Our free email newsletters Pitchers are terrible hitters. We all know it. Of course, it's completely understandable. Aspiring young pitchers are so busy perfecting their curveball, their grip, their form — and more, or course — that they just don't have much time to take…

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Op-Ed Contributor Washington AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and…

Hello Planetizen readers - on this New Year's Eve, I find myself "thinking with my thumbs" on my Blackberry as my wife and I explore Seattle before tonight's festivities - thinking beyond the resolutions and goals for myself, my family, and my company. I'm thinking about us - a community of…

Photo: Scott Olson/2012 Getty Images How doomed are conservatives? Pretty doomed, if you look carefully at the Pew Research Survey’s close analysis of the youth vote in the 2012 elections. The Republicans’ long-term dilemma has generally been framed in racial terms, but it’s mainly a generational…

Opinion Seattle ONCE, we commemorated the dead, left out offerings to feed them and lamps to guide them home. These days, Halloween has drifted far from its roots in pagan and Catholic festivals, and the spirits we appease are no longer those of the dead: needy ghosts have been replaced by costumed…

Marissa Mayer was recently made CEO of Yahoo, the struggling online media giant. The board knew they needed a sort of miracle, something so extraordinary that it’d jolt the company into success, so they took a deep breath, prayed and threw a Hail Mary pass: they hired a pregnant woman. A pregnant…

Writers have contorted relationships with publishers, probably because they excel at projection. Particularly this is true now in an age where publishers sue writers for undelivered manuscripts. Something about this has the ring of the disinheriting vengeful father, if you’re paying half-attention,…

MetaFilter (or “MeFi”) is a web community from another era, founded before the days of Digg, Reddit, and Facebook. Created in 1999 by Matt Haughey, the site’s run with just a few employees, but has grown into a fantastic place for conversations that you could spend hours digging into and surfacing…

News Analysis MEN are famous for ignoring aches and pains. It’s macho. Men get physical exams less often than women. They tend to remain silent if worried about their health. When hurt, their impulse is to shun doctors and rely on home remedies, like avoiding heavy lifting to ease backaches. Male…

By Cathy O’Neil, a data scientist. Cross posted from mathbabe I just finished reading Nate Silver’s newish book, The Signal and the Noise: Why so many predictions fail – but some don’t. The Good News First off, let me say this: I’m very happy that people are reading a book on modeling in such huge…

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Sandra Singh, Vancouver Public Library’s chief librarian, holds an iPad with a copy of the book ‘Ru’ shown on it at the VPL’s main branch on Dec. 19, 2012.Jeff Vinnick/The Globe and Mail It's not news that the public library in the 21st century is a very different place from the days when stern…

Zadie Smith’s fourth novel is a flawless marriage of technique, social conscience and character. NW by Zadie Smith Hamish Hamilton, 296pp, £18.99 There have been two debates in the 21st century about that old chestnut, the future of the novel, which have risen about the low-level jabbering and…

Although Zadie Smith's much-awaited new book is called NW, in honour of the London postcode in which it is set, no one is talking it up as the great metropolitan novel we are all (supposedly) waiting for. Or not so far. I wonder why. You could put this down to its author's gender, of course; most…