Cultural Comment January 24, 2021 The most glaring artistic error in “Soul” is its misprision—its elision, really—of what soul means for black culture.Image courtesy Disney+ In ancient Greece, the word for the soul was psyche. It is likely related to psykhein, meaning “to breathe” or “to blow,”…

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Editor’s note: In Adventure Journal 17, summer 2020, we published a story called “The Ghost in the Tent,” by journalist Jason Nark, who had been trying to decipher the mystery of a man known only by his trail name, Mostly Harmless, whose emaciated body was found in a tent by day hikers in Florida.…

I Love It! (I Hate It.) There's a sound of rustling paper. You crack the wrap at the seam. You look inside, unveiling the item within. It's... Crap. It’s crap. It’s a crap present that you don’t want. You lift your head and, with a beaming grin, you somehow manage to let out a torrent of thanks and…

source A common piece of interacting-with-people advice goes: “often when people complain, they don’t want help, they just want you to listen!” For instance, Nonviolent Communication:✻✻ Nonviolent Communication, ch. 7. It is often frustrating for someone needing empathy to have us assume that they…

This is the Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Let’s say, in pre-pandemic life, you worked in an office and wanted to quickly run an idea by a colleague.…

This purpose of this point is to preserve the true meaning of Raymond Wolfinger’s oft-misquoted aphorism. Via the Internet Archive’s snapshot of this July 6, 2004 post on listserv.linguistlist.org: Nelson W. Polsby PS, Vol. 17, No. 4. (Autumn, 1984), pp. 778-781. Pg. 779: Raymond Wolfinger’s…

i think about the "Premium Mediocre" essay a lot. offices and perks at Google (for example) are solidly Premium Mediocre. https://t.co/njMRPsc12L

On this day in 1989, a gunman walked into an engineering school in Montreal and began to systematically shoot the female students. Fourteen women died. I was a junior at the University of Toronto at the time. I wrote about it on its 25th anniversary. https://t.co/9rxd6SVkyw

From Julia Child to Paul Bocuse to James Beard, some of the biggest names in food history are also people who have professed their love for the same french fry—a french fry that, in no exaggerated manner, birthed an empire. A french fry that no one has eaten in more than 30 years. McDonald’s…

We knew this to be true: Computers could run fast and hot, or slow and cool. For laptops in particular, the best you could hope for is a middle ground: fast enough and cool enough. But if you wanted a machine that ran really fast, it wasn’t going to run cool (and wasn’t going to last long on…

Photographs by Julia Sellmann Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a question for the first time: What is it like to raise a child with Down syndrome? Sometimes the caller is a pregnant woman, deciding whether to have an abortion. Sometimes a husband and wife…

What does the future hold? In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction — in movies, books, TV, games, and beyond — to see how storytellers and innovators are imagining the next 10, 20, 50, or 100 years during a moment of extreme uncertainty. Follow…

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Kami West had been dating her current boyfriend for a few weeks when she told him that he was outranked by her best…

October 4, 2020 / gbl08ma / 0 Comments Many people have been experiencing strange time perception phenomenon throughout 2020, but certain database management systems have been into time shenanigans for way longer. This came to my attention when a friend received the following exception in one of his…

Shouts & Murmurs August 25, 2020 Photograph by Simon Potter / Alamy Is it 2 P.M. already? Ugh. I’ve done nothing today. I woke up, stretched, saw that I had six voice mails, ignored them, showered, ate three waffles, and then felt annoyed that I’m thirty-five and still don’t speak French. Wait, hang…

For over six years, one Wikipedia user—AmaryllisGardener—has written well over 23,000 articles on the Scots Wikipedia and done well over 200,000 edits. The only problem is that AmaryllisGardener isn’t Scottish, they don’t speak Scots, and none of their articles are written in Scots. Since 2013, this…

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T o have a job without a workplace, you must build an office of the mind. Structure, routine, focus, socialization, networking, stress relief—their creation is almost entirely up to you, alone in a sp

A t the beginning of April I wrote a piece for the Guardian. If you haven’t read it, the headline pretty much sums it up: “Terminal cancer means I won’t see the other side of lockdown”. Given the pand

The Correspondent Jesse Frederik – Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing SoundCloud In front of a sea of coders sitting on folding chairs, their laptops on folding tables, a man appears

Circuit Judge Consuelo M. Callahan, in last week’s decision by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, reversing the District Court’s ruling that Qualcomm was guilty of antitrust violations, opene

Thinking of yourself as a separate entity can reduce anxiety, while also kicking up some major benefits for your confidence and determination. As we head into 2021, Worklife is running our best, most

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Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) now permeate nearly every feature on the iPhone, but Apple hasn't been touting these technologies like some of its competitors have. I wanted to

Earlier this month, Walt Disney World began reopening, following almost four months of closure due to the pandemic. I flew to Orlando to experience the magic. The week I arrived, Florida had registere

“ How to Build a Life ” is a biweekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Imagine reading a story titled “The Relentless Pursuit of Booze.” You would likely expect a

In the search for happiness, we often confuse how something looks with how it’s likely to make us feel. This is especially true when it comes to our homes. If we want to maximize happiness, we need to

Enlarge / This G4 Cube ran for several years as a headless server until succumbing to the thermal issues that plagued the device from launch. It's now a decoration in Managing Editor Eric Bangeman's o

The Mask Wars are one of the stranger offshoots of COVID-19. Yesterday’s battleground was a Victorian outlet of Bunnings. Iconic, certainly, but not usually regarded as the birthplace of liberty. (Free to read!) https://t.co/Qv0EYPaIpF

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There’s a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on every single day. It happens in the TCP protocol, one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. TCP is a way

A decade ago, Steve Jobs sat down at the D8 conference for an interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg . What followed was a masterclass in both company and product management. The whole intervie

In 1966, nine years after gaining his Ph.D. with a dissertation titled The Self-Energy of the Scalar Nucleon , physicist Koichi Mano wrote a congratulatory letter to Richard Feynman , the man who had

Feel free to file Google’s release this week of an update to their iPad Gmail app with support for split-screen multitasking under “better late than never”, but this is so late it borders on the absur