Explore the contents of this article with a free Wolfram SystemModeler trial . Could you fly using machine guns as the upward driving force? That’s the question asked in Randall Munroe’s What if? arti
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It’s that time of year again. Well, I’m actually a little late, but it was an especially busy holiday season. This is my annual list of the apps, both old and new, that I found the most useful over th
We’ve all gone through times in our lives where we’ve lost loved ones. As a portrait photographer I would get calls all the time for “Urgent” family photos where one family member was terminally ill,
I have always liked diaries. I like to keep them and I like to read them, especially visual ones. At a young age I fell hard for the journals of Peter Beard; later, Dan Eldon and Sabrina Ward Harrison
Last updated on October 18, 2014. I started looking at Bluetooth headphones after the Apple Watch was announced, since I think they’re probably the future and wanted to know what was out there. But on
The Economist on why we all feel so busy: The relationship between time, money and anxiety is something Gary S. Becker noticed in America’s post-war boom years. Though economic progress and higher wag
Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism by Mark Twain [One evening in Paris in 1879, The Stomach Club, a society of American writers and artists, gathered to drink well, to eat a good dinner and hear an address by Mark Twain. He was among friends and, according to the custom of the club, he…
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Computing Thoughts A Career in Computing by Bruce Eckel June 2, 2009 Summary I regularly receive requests for career advice, and I've tried to capture the answers in this blog, and in a follow-on. For
Adam Goldman and Peyton Craighill, writing for The Washington Post, “ New Poll Finds Majority of Americans Think Torture Was Justified After 9/11 Attacks ”: A majority of Americans think that the hars
A year ago, Justine Sacco sent out a tweet and then boarded a plane. By the time she landed, her career was derailed, her reputation was shredded, and her relative anonymity had been replaced by the w
On my morning bus into town, every teenager and every grown-up sits there staring into their little infinity machine: a pocket-sized window onto more words than any of us could ever read, more music t
The Big Picture A few days into testing the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, I accidentally left my personal iPhone 5S on a desk next to the iPhone 6 Plus. While my back was turned, the Plus tried to eat my 5
Time reports : Bono, Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr believe so strongly that artists should be compensated for their work that they have embarked on a secret project with Apple to try to make
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) –- For its 85th anniversary, Bloomberg Businessweek chronicles the most disruptive ideas of the past 85 years. In 1976, The Apple 1 computer goes on sale for a retail price of $666.66. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and designed that product, remembers the…
Photography Does a photograph always need to tell a story? Are the only truly great photographs ones which change the world, record a decisive moment, or leave you with a sense of technical accomplish
If you set your bar at "amazing," it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted wi
Home Donate New Search Gallery Reviews How-To Books Links Workshops About Contact Fuji X100T 16MP APS-C, 6 FPS, ISO 51,200 (2014-2017) Fujifilm X100T. (15.2 oz./432g with lens, battery and card, also
This is the original studio video during which Gould recorded Bach's Goldberg Variations in 1981 which was released on CD. This video originally appeared on Google Video, but was taken down when that service was discontinued.
A Candid Look at Unread’s First Year To my knowledge, indie developers don’t publish the kind of numbers that you’ll find in this post. My sales records are none of your business , as the saying quite literally goes. The question in your mind will no doubt be why am I writing this at all? It’s a…
Look around your iPad for a minute. How are its third-party apps doing? Are they all being actively updated? Are they all built for iOS 7 yet? You never see any non-Retina graphics, iOS 6 keyboards, o
Every summer, Apple takes the wraps off a new version of OS X. This past June, Craig Federighi introduced Yosemite. [1] His performance was electrifying, and throughout the week, he was seen taking se
My castle is not your castle … the keep of Loches castle, shown here in a detail from Emmanuel Lansyer’s 1891 painting, was built in the 11th century.Photograph: World History Archive/Alamy 11th centu
“The famous Google mantra of ‘Don’t be evil’ is not entirely what it seems.” Those words come not from a detractor of the company but from Eric Schmidt, its executive chairman, and Jonathan Rosenberg,
Paul Buchheit, the original lead developer of GMail, notes that the success of GMail was a long time in coming: We starting working on Gmail in August 2001. For a long time, almost everyone disliked i
On finding alternative sources of news in the pre-web era (this quote comes from ~1992): The information is there, but it’s there to a fanatic, you know, somebody wants to spend a substantial part of
Jill Abramson and Steven Brill’s upcoming longform outfit , a still-unnamed collaboration between the former New York Times executive editor and American Lawyer founder, may be the most exciting media
An IT worker draws a diagram of the Domain Name System (DNS) on a digital whiteboard. GodfriedEdelman/Getty Images The internet and the World Wide Web are wild frontiers that rely on computer language
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