Image: Jesse Champlin FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS , Leupold and Stevens Inc has produced some of the world’s best rifle scopes. Founded in Portland a century ago and now based in Beaverton, Leupold has bee

The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as “a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” Bohr's quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, wh

Here’s To The Crazy One MG Siegler 6:40 PM PDT · October 7, 2011 When I wrote my piece entitled “One More Thing…” in August following the news that Steve Jobs was formally stepping down as CEO of Apple, I knew that sooner or later there would have to be a follow up. Unfortunately, it ended up being…

Digital Media Will the Real Digital Native Please Stand Up? A decade after the term 'digital native' was first popularized, educators examine what the term means today--if anything. Photo: Dirk Anschütz/Corbis A decade has passed since author, game designer, and educational thought leader Marc…

Print / License If the people who expressed all that outrage in the social and mainstream media over the banana-tossing in London, Ont., really believe it was an isolated act by a lone racist moron and not indicative of a greater problem in hockey then they are greatly mistaken. Granted, unlike the…

So, Steve Jobs is dead. A tech genius has passed on. Sad. Certainly a devastating loss to Steve Jobs' close friends and family members, as well as to Apple executives and shareholders. The rest of you? Calm down. Among my Facebook friends yesterday, more than one wrote publicly that they were…

The Nathan E. Stewart fuel barge and part-sunken tug the morning of the incident (Jordan Wilson/Pacific Wild) Judging by official statements in the aftermath of the ongoing Central Coast diesel fuel spill , the response to the disaster was relatively effective and damage minimized – a PR line…

I met Steve Jobs while I worked at Gizmodo. He was always a gentleman. Steve liked me and he liked Gizmodo. And I liked him back. Some of my friends who I used to work with at Gizmodo refer to those days as the Good Old Days. That is because those were the days before it all went to shit. That was…

Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images It’s hard not to laugh when Barry Smith starts telling stories about the hapless young workers he has to deal with. Smith, who runs Toronto-area roofing company RoofSmith Canada, tells of one who didn’t come to work because his cat had fleas, and another who jumped…

by David Roth and David Raposa David Roth: Well, how do you like that? A guy who looks like a flamboyant, bespectacled version of Grimace doing the Humpty Dance at Yankee Stadium. David Raposa: You shouldn’t talk about David Wells like that. He’s worked really hard to beat the gout. David Roth: You…

In the days after Steve Jobs' death, friends and colleagues have, in customary fashion, been sharing their fondest memories of the Apple co-founder. He's been hailed as "a genius" and "the greatest CEO of his generation" by pundits and tech journalists. But a great man's reputation can withstand a…

“There's this expression called postmodernism,” choreographer Twyla Tharp once remarked, “which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.” Throughout my undergrad years in the late 1990s, my classmates and I seemed to do nothing but eat,…

News and Interviews Posted by Goodreads on October 3, 2011 Michael Lewis has a knack for wrestling compelling drama out of complicated concepts. His heroes always are willing to swim against the current. The best-selling book The Big Short followed the intricate inner workings of the subprime…

It's impossible to imagine the web as it is today without Steve Jobs in the story. Even something as seemingly simple as proportional width fonts might not exist were it not for Jobs and Apple, to say

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My first writing job was on a TV show called Get a Life. The show was mostly in the voice of its creators, Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick, who'd worked on the David Letterman Show. Adam's scripts were the best thing about Get a Life – and we all tried to write in Adam's voice. That was the job. I…

Subscribe to Baseball Prospectus I Was Framed Catchers play a central role in the game of baseball through their involvement with every pitch that their pitchers throw. One of their key tasks is receiving borderline pitches without discouraging the umpire from calling strikes. Dan Turkenkopf was one…

A common reaction to Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 4S yesterday was disappointment…Mat Honan’s post at Gizmodo for instance. I was hoping for something bold and interesting looking. The iPhone 4 was just that when it shipped. So too were the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G. If I’m going to…

The case against adult ADHD goes something like this: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a dubious condition promoted by Big Pharma to push stimulant drugs; the small number of children with true ADHD (rather than lax parenting) will outgrow it by their teens, so adults have no business…

John Cassidy October 2, 2011 When I suggested the other day that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was a closet supporter of Occupy Wall Street, I was being somewhat ironic. Little did I know Kelly would go this far to publicize the protesters’ cause. In arresting some seven hundred marchers on the…

Dogs have impressive observational powers. Canva Man's dog suddenly becomes protective of his wife, Internet clocks the reason right away Tod PerryGOOD Staff Aug 18, 2025 Reddit user Girlfriendhatesmefor's three-year-old pitbull, Otis, had recently become overprotective of his wife. So he asked the…

For the last year I've been using my friend Ben's app Sendtab to manage all the different places I find interesting content. He originally built it as a way to send anything from his laptop to a mac m

For the first time since “Arrested Development” was cancelled in 2005, the entire cast assembled today for a Bluth Family Reunion moderated by New Yorker television critic Nancy Franklin; even Ron Howard joined via telephone. The big news of the afternoon: If all goes according to plan, the series…

Annals of Medicine Personal Best September 26, 2011 No matter how well trained people are, few can sustain their best performance on their own. That’s where coaching comes in.Illustration by Barry Blitt I’ve been a surgeon for eight years. For the past couple of them, my performance in the operating…

On Baseball Albert Pujols, right, and the Cardinals clinched the National League wild card by climbing out of an eight-and-a-half-game hole.Credit...David J. Phillip/Associated Press It was March Madness on the diamond, four elimination games taking place simultaneously. In Major League Baseball on…

A string of Chinese entrepreneurs have gone into hiding to avoid repaying loans, according to state media reports, highlighting a credit squeeze on private firms and the dangers of steep interest rates in China’s vast and growing informal lending market. Many cash-strapped firms are unable to borrow…