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Crime has doubled in Nunavut since the territory was founded 12 years ago this week, raising a critical question: Is Nunavut a failure of Canadian nation building? And if so, what must be done for history’s scars to heal?
Inside the dead man’s house, Elisapee Qaumagiaq fell silent. She let the walls…
[Photographs: Robyn Lee and J. Kenji Lopez-Alt]
I haven’t always been comfortable with foie gras, though I’ve spent a good chunk of my life working with it. At first, the discomfort was with the taste. I tried it first as a teenager in the form of a cold terrine that tasted mostly of cat food to me.…
Hip hop was, by all outward appearances, dead. The only viable alternative was barely viable: the staid, keep-it-real, hip-hopper-than-thou underground scene that, frankly, has been a big ol’ parody of itself since early on in the decade. So it wasn’t much of a surprise that me, Nas, and many…
A recent Vanity Fair profile of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey ends with an anecdote about an inspiring speech he gave to the assembled staff at his new mobile payments startup, Square. The internal “TownSquare” meeting took place on his 34th birthday last November, and it is a remarkable statement by…
Milan-born Massimo Vignelli is among the world’s most influential designers. Creating by the credo that “design should be semantically correct, syntactically consistent, pragmatically understandable, visually powerful, intellectually elegant and timeless,” he has fashioned corporate identities for…
A few months ago, Steven Pinker of Harvard asked a smart question: What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?
David Brooks
The intellectual, cultural and scientific findings that land on the columnist’s desk nearly every day.
David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between…
Gluttony dressed up as foodie-ism is still gluttony. We have all dined with him in restaurants: the host who insists on calling his special friend out of the kitchen for some awkward small talk. The publishing industry also wants us to meet a few chefs, only these are in no hurry to get back to…
Editor’s note: When we read Sasha Frere-Jones‘ recent piece on the death of hip-hop, we didn’t have a witty comeback. What we did have was one name on the brain: Das Racist. A favorite here at Flavorpill HQ thanks to their single “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” the Brooklyn-based rap duo is…
Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life. Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of a given law of life to really get it into your skull, and other times one powerful experience drives the point home once forever. Here are 88 things I’ve discovered about life, the world, and its…
A review of justhost web hosting will immediately highlight this hosting star’s many awards, including the Host of the year award. A relatively recent player as far as success is concerned, justhost hosting has been providing reliable hosting services to a wide variety of clients at affordable rates…
There’s the Fast Company magazine*. There’s the Slow Food movement. Let’s start a Slow Company movement. The idea is to take ideas such as the lean startup and organic growth and apply it to the companies we run. It’s not going to be a runaway success, but you have a better chance of actually making…
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Angry…
This is my manifesto for 2011, and I’ve been putting off writing it.
It’s going to bother some people, and it might even change a few opinions of me. But it’s important, and not just because it’s been driving me nuts for six months.
The internet is not made of hugs.
By this I mean, it’s time to…
Memorize something everyday. Not only will this leave your brain sharp and your memory functioning, you will also have a huge library of quotes to bust out at any moment. Poetry, sayings and philosophies are your best options.Constantly try to reduce your attachment to possessions. Those who are…
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We, programmers who have learned how to combine fonts, shapes and colors so you could offer your client a professional looking interface. We, designers who have learned how to edit video and mix audio so you could have an effective commercial for your company. We, AV technicians who have learned how…
Set your heart on an MBA? Philip Delves Broughton suggests a radical alternative: don’t bother Business schools have long sold the promise that, like an F1 driver zipping into the pits for fresh tyres, it just takes a short hiatus on an MBA programme and you will come roaring back into the career…
Is Toronto the Good in danger of becoming Toronto the Too Good and Squeaky Clean?
Consider: The area of downtown formerly known as “the club district” seems to be turning into some kind of giant, family-friendly rec-room.
So now, instead of dropping ecstasy, waving a glow stick around, and dancing…
Raising our kids and being an entrepreneur wasn’t easy. Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents.
This post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply what my wife and I…
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. May 2004 (This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters.) If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That’s been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word…
Our country’s health care is by far the most expensive in the world. In Washington, the aim of health-care reform is not just to extend medical coverage to everybody but also to bring costs under control.
Leonard E. Read (1898-1983) founded FEE in 1946 and served as its president until his death. “I, Pencil,” his most famous essay, was first published in the December 1958 issue of The Freeman.
I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and…
COMPUTING SCIENCE
Every programmer knows there is one true programming language. A new one every week
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If you want to be a thorough-going world traveler, you need to learn 6,912 ways to say “Where is the toilet, please?” That’s the number of languages known to be spoken by the peoples of…
In the range of his genius, Freeman Dyson is heir to Einstein—a visionary who has reshaped thinking in fields from math to astrophysics to medicine, and who has conceived nuclear-propelled spaceships designed to transport human colonists to distant planets. And yet on the matter of global warming he…
Language. Language, language, language. In the end it all comes down to language. I write to you today on this subject as a way of welcoming you to www.stephenfry.com 2.0 and because, well, it’s a subject worth thinking about at any time and because fewer things interest me quite so much.Image:…
In 1985, I began talking with Sondra, my therapist, about the possibility of seeing a sex surrogate. When Sondra had originally mentioned the idea — explaining that a sexual therapist worked with a client’s emotional problems concerning sex, while a surrogate worked with a client’s body — I had been…
Simplicity is hot right now, made fashionable by RISD president John Maeda and companies like Apple and Google. But there are some things to be said about it.
First, simplicity and minimalism are not equivalent, though they’re often conflated. Minimalism is a child of simplicity, but simplicity has…
BUSINESS and politics are full of surprises—and a near certainty. Whether they are politicians, bankers or trade-union leaders, men nearly always meet other men in suits. The uniform of capitalism has conquered more of the globe than capitalism itself. When Barack Obama first visited Hu Jintao,…
This year we will all begin remembering the American Civil War, which started 150 years ago. For the next few years, the news in the states will be full of various re-enactments, celebrations, and, sadly, protests and arguing.
But why protest and argue about something that happened and was finished…
It’s back to school time and children all over are starting preschool. Many parents are frantically searching the internet to find out if their little ones are “on track” and know everything they should.
I wrote this article about what a four-year-old should know many years ago but it continues to…
Cleaning my basement recently, I came upon an issue of The New York Times dated Friday, April 13, 1990. The headlines tell about the East Germans issuing an apology for Nazi crimes, Americans finding excuses for not being part of the census, early glaucoma being found in President Bush’s eye, and…
henry molaison’s brain
The laboratory at night, the lights down low. An iMac streams a Pat Metheny version of an Ennio Morricone tune while Dr. Jacopo Annese, sitting in front of his ventilated biosafety cabinet, a small paintbrush in his hand, teases apart a crumpled slice of brain. The slice…
David H. Koch in 1996. He and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes.
On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the…
The Main Reading Room, Library of Congress. Image from CIRLA.
In this article from Communications of the ACM from January 2007, Russell Beale uses the term slanty design to describe “design that purposely reduces aspects of functionality or usability”:
It originated from an apocryphal story that…
Bigger is better—well, that used to be the case. The game is changing, with power shifting to small companies like yours. In this section, we’ll reflect on how you can make these changes work for you and consider what can be learned from tiny startups: like the 10 year old sneaker shop that sold a…
CAPITAL PUNISHMENTObama gets roundly criticized for his patience, but his conduct may offer a lesson in how to elude the loonier aspects of our age.
At the hour of dawn, in the same southwest-corner, second-floor bedroom of the White House where Abraham Lincoln once slept, the president awakens. On…
by Luke Wroblewski June 15, 2010
Twitter recently redesigned their sign-up process to boost new user engagement. Though the new sign-up process added one more screen, conversions went up 29%. How? Gradual engagement.
Gradual engagement is the process of moving a user through an application or…
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