Die Medien operieren nach einer ähnlichen Logik und verstärken diesen Trend. Als wir mit Steinbrück in Athen eine soziale Einrichtung für die Armen besuchten, erkundigte sich ein Kollege direkt bei den mitreisenden BKA-Beamten nach den Kosten für den Schutz von Steinbrück im Ausland. Ich erwartete…

Post Typography NOT long ago, I received, in a single week, three (3) invitations to write an original piece for publication or give a prepared speech in exchange for no ($0.00) money. As with stinkbugs, it’s not any one instance of this request but their sheer number and relentlessness that make…

If you’re a boy writer, it’s a simple rule: you’ve gotta get used to the fact that you suck at writing women and that the worst women writer can write a better man than the best male writer can write a good woman. And it’s just the minimum. Because the thing about the sort of heteronormative…

Vielleicht fängt man einfach bei Jochen Distelmeyer an. Es ist ein gutes Jahrzehnt her, dass er mit seiner Band Blumfeld auf dem damals noch weitaus weniger als heute etablierten Melt! Festival auftrat, am späten Nachmittag, so, wie es dort üblich war. Das Festival hatte sich einen allgemein sehr…

An image from the Femen documentary by Australian film-maker Kitty Green, 'Ukraine is not a Brothel' It’s the Ukranian feminist group that embarrassed President Putin. Its activists have staged many protests against sexual and political repression by stripping to their waists in carefully…

Kaum ein US-Startup ist seit seiner Gründung so stark gewachsen wie Evernote . Binnen sechs Jahren bringt es der Notizenverwalter auf eine beachtliche Nutzerzahl und blickt auf Kapitalspritzen von einer Viertel Milliarde US-Dollar zurück. Wie das trotz aller Misserfolge im Startup-Geschäft gelingen…

Bill Watterson is the artist and creator of (in my humble opinion) the greatest comic strip of all time, Calvin and Hobbes . I was a bit too young to appreciate it while it was originally published from 1985-1995, but I started devouring the book collections soon after. I think my brother had a few…

In the midst of the massive geek Mecca that is San Diego Comic-Con, the big Marvel Studios movie panel had all the theater of a presidential campaign rally. Tom Hiddleston appeared in costume as Loki, the bad guy from Thor , and rallied the crowd in character. Then: so many movie stars, including…

What is it about technological communication systems that get people so angry? Photograph: Marttila / Rex Features You can't have missed the latest Twitter debacle. Some deeply unpleasant individuals got very angry at women pursuing pro-female agendas publicly. People then got very angry at these…

Spotify founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon E ver since Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace removed their albums from Spotify , a heated debate has been raging over the value of streaming music services for musicians and the music industry. The argument may have gone mainstream in recent weeks, but…

Jane Austen? Shakespeare? Tolstoy? Hacks. Beethoven? Bach? Mozart? Wildly overrated. Statistically speaking, at least. It’s a curious fact that while the long-dead titans of literature and music are revered above all others, they were working in a time when the talent pool — the educated population…

On Sunday, July 21st, the NPR host Scott Simon’s mother entered the I.C.U. at a Chicago hospital, following a surgery. She died on Monday night, at the age of eighty-four. In the week before her death, Simon began live-tweeting his mother’s final days to his almost 1.3 million followers from her…

Illustration by Jasper Rietman Like a lot of accountants, Jason Blumer never really wanted to be an accountant; he wanted to play guitar in a hair-metal band. But like most guys who want to play guitar in a hair-metal band, Blumer eventually realized that there wasn’t much money in touring bars and…

Superman saves people. That’s his main job. He’s not a crime fighter like Batman. He’s the guy who plugs up exploding volcanoes, who rescues crashing jets, who plucks kittens from trees. To some extent all superheroes do that sort of stuff but for Superman that’s the whole job. Yeah, he sometimes…

Rebecca Mock There are people who make fun of teenage romances, but I never do and that is because of Rob. He strolled up the street in the tiny Catskills town of Pine Hill one day in the summer of 1965 carrying "The Catcher in the Rye," the badge of a kindred spirit, wearing a canary yellow cable…

PART ONE - A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE INTRODUCTIONS PLEASE NOTE: THIS ESSAY WILL DISCUSS THE ENTIRE PLOT OF MAN OF STEEL IN DEPTH. PLEASE ALSO NOTE: THIS ESSAY HAS FOUR DIFFERENT INTRODUCTIONS. SORRY BOUT THAT, IT'S JUST THAT WE'RE ULTIMATELY GOING TO NEED THEM ALL. * * * INTRO #1 EVERY SUMMER PEOPLE…

When you see pictures of dinosaurs, there are a few awful tropes that come up again and again. Not only do they make dinosaurs vulnerable to Dalek attack, says paleobiologist Mark Witton, but they also prevent people from understanding what the big animals were really like . A Book That Will Make…

I was blown away and dumbfounded by the value of social login buttons. It was a big win for the UX team, and our customers. Then I got an email from Ben Chestnut, our CEO.

Misdirected praise? … Daniel Radcliffe's performance as Billy in The Cripple of Inishmaan has drawn warm praise from critics. Photograph: Johan Persson As I've written here recently, it's increasingly obvious that there's still a long way to go to increase employment opportunities for black and east…

The first season or two of Mad Men made drinking all day, womanizing all night, and chain smoking seem really glamorous. But Don Draper doesn't wear his unhealthy lifestyle as handsomely in 1968 as he did in 1960. Now pasty, puffy, and sweaty, his bloodshot eyes are the windows to someone who is…

Die Wortschöpfung “Deutscheuropäer/in” ist aufschlussreich. Im Netz wird sie vor allem von Leuten verwendet, die sich nicht trauen, offen nationalistisch aufzutreten. Es folgt dann auch Chauvinismus der billigsten Sorte, niemand in Griechenland würde Steuern bezahlen. Allgemeingültigkeit, gewonnen…

L ast week I was infuriated by a study. I'm not talking about the type of room – I wasn't maddened by a den or seething at the sight of a home office. I was annoyed by a "survey", a "report", some "research". It was given all sorts of titles in the press, none of which was "pile of sanctimonious…

Archiv Politische Satire ist seit jeher fester Bestandteil des öffentlich-rechtlichen Programmangebots. Doch wie verhält es sich mit Comedy, die vor allem beim jüngeren Publikum beliebt ist? Die Grenzen sind fließend. Beide bedienen sich ähnlicher Stilmittel, von Provokation und Überspitzung über…

× Photo by Adam Kahan Cop-main Julia H.* has served in the Berlin police for more than 15 years and now works the beat around Görlitzer Bahnhof. In an exclusive off-the-record interview, the senior officer explains why the cops turn a blind eye to drug users and small-time dealers. If no one pushed…

Anzeige M ein neuester Roman, „The Red Book“, wurde in die Longlist für den britischen Women’s Prize for Fiction, dem früheren Orange Prize, aufgenommen. Als ich das gehört habe, sind mir erst mal die Tränen gekommen. Dann habe ich den Preis gegoogelt und festgestellt: Er wurde 1991 gestiftet, als…

A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment…

[Originally published June 15, 2010.] - - - Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to…

Tuesday It is the nature of obsession, the compulsion that causes the otherwise rational mind to charge into the labyrinth, to wrestle the obfuscating Minotaur within, and extract from the bull-man whatever morsel of meaning can be salvaged in this ­dumbed, flat world of ours. This was the quest, I…

I keep having the same conversation over and over. It starts like this: “I gave up Facebook for Lent, and I realized I’m a lot happier without it.” Or like this, “Pinterest makes me hate my house.” Or like this: “I stopped following a friend on Instagram, and now that I don’t see nonstop snapshots…

Save this picture! Peruri 88 / MVDRV. Rendering © RSI-Studio Tim De Chant is the senior digital editor at NOVA and editor of NOVA Next . He also writes at Per Square Mile , the blog where this article originally appeared. Just a couple of years ago, if you wanted to make something look trendier, you…