Unlike wheat, corn, and sugar, legumes aren’t generally associated with “junk food” or processed food products. It’s easy to conjure up hyperbolic images of Twinkies and Wonderbread to demonize wheat, but lentil soup and hummus just don’t have the same effect. Some legumes, like soy, are even widely…

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Becoming a manager for the first time is incredibly exciting—but extremely overwhelming. In your hands, you now have the power to effect change, make an impact, and guide the employees on your team to bigger and better things . But you also have to figure out how, exactly, to do that. In the…

GIF If you’ve ever read five words about personal finance, they were probably “Spend less than you earn.” It’s popular because it’s simple. In fact, it’s too simple. It’s the smallest piece of a big puzzle with lots of complicated parts. It’s time we taught those instead. What’s Wrong With “Spend…

So your job sucks. You could resign yourself to a life of dull (or even miserable) days in the office or you could set aside some time and get a better job. Here are ten great tips to help you put together a great application, ace the interview, and ultimately work for a company you'll love rather…

Why people care about Mother 2 [Image by Anonymous ] EarthBound was re-released on the Wii U Virtual Consoles this week, with off-TV play and online access to the packed-in strategy guide from the game's original 1995 release on the SNES. Many fans of the game were overjoyed, while many more took…

Bryan Stevenson has spent most of his career challenging bias against minorities and the poor in the criminal justice system. He is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative , based in Montgomery, Ala., an advocacy group that opposes mass incarceration and racial injustice.…

Agnes de Mille had just achieved the greatest success of her career, but right now the only thing she felt was confusion. She was a dancer and a choreographer. Early in her career, de Mille had created the choreography for a ballet called Three Virgins and a Devil . She thought it was good work, but…

Share: LinkedIn 2 With one stroke of the pen, she empowered half of the country’s population Exclusive Part 2 of 2 By Raïssa Robles Cory Aquino helped liberate and empower half of the Philippine population. Nowadays we think nothing – or nothing much — of unmarried couples who openly live together;…

In “How to Write a Thesis,” Umberto Eco walks students through the craft and rewards of sustained research. Credit Photograph by Martine Franck / Magnum “How to Write a Thesis,” by Umberto Eco, first appeared on Italian bookshelves in 1977. For Eco, the playful philosopher and novelist best known…

Close your eyes, and envision a glowing crystal suspended in infinite space. Now breathe in slowly, counting backwards from 10. Energy pulses along the interstices of the crystal. Exhale, and imagine a second crystal, precisely like the first – then a dozen, a hundred, 100,000 crystals multiplying…

Every week, we share the shortcuts, workspaces, and productivity tips of our favorite experts. Today, it's my turn to reveal how I get stuff done. Location: Los Angeles, CA Current Gig: Writer, blogger, video-maker. One word that best describes how you work: Caffeinated. Current mobile device:…

Loli-chan is a modern-day Rapunzel locked inside a South Miami fortress of rust and weeds on a dead-end street. She rarely leaves a guest house that sits in a jungle-like yard overrun with six peacocks and half as many junked cars. Ten paces away is her parents' place. Wooden boards and strips of…

It was high school. I was 16, and I was pissed off. My English teacher gave us a creative writing assignment: write anything about being in high school. Anything. So I wrote a story about a school shooting . And not just that — in my story, once police cornered the shooter, instead of blowing his…

Dante Washington is employed, has a degree and his own home in Baltimore. He defied the statistics of a 25-year-long research project that was turned into a book "The Long Shadow" which centers on children growing up in poverty -stricken areas of Baltimore. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington…

How did I get to E3? How did I get a VIP pass? I don't even know. The idea was that I would walk up to E3 and, telling nobody anything, manage to just get in. That's what happened. It worked out pretty well. I have business in the San Francisco Bay Area from late June to early August, so I figured I…

It's okay to feel down and out when you fail, but Brad Feld on his weblog recommends giving yourself only a set amount of time to wallow, and no more. In his post about failure, Feld talks about Jeremy Bloom, the CEO of Integrate and a former Olympic skier: In 2006 at the Winter Olympics, he was the…

Let’s face it. We all make mistakes. Most of us know that failure is a reality of life, and at some level, we understand that it actually helps us grow. Intellectually, we even acknowledge that the greatest achievers -- past and present -- also routinely experienced colossal failures. But still, we…

I frequently encounter people struggling with a career decision they believe they have to get “right” or disaster is surely imminent. “ What if I take this job and I hate it?” they might say. But this idea of right and wrong in your career path is a fallacy. There are only choices, and with every…

Ever wished you could go back and talk to your younger self when you were just starting your career? While you can't go back in a time, you can pay it forward. Hindsight is 20/20—and some of the best insights come from past experiences. This post originally appeared on LearnVest . That's why we…

It has come to my attention that we might, within a few short years, find ourselves living on a planet devoid of Square-Enix. Square-Enix, for those who don't know, is a suit-wearing organization whose members enjoy excellent health benefits in addition to an opportunity to get paid to do things…

Smile at the customer. Bake cookies for your colleagues. Sing your subordinates’ praises. Share credit. Listen. Empathize. Don’t drive the last dollar out of a deal. Leave the last doughnut for someone else. Sneer at the customer. Keep your colleagues on edge. Claim credit. Speak first. Put your…

Pokemon , aka "Pocket Monster Trainer", is the undisputed Biggest Video Game Property currently existing in the nation of Japan. We can attribute its bigness to a variety of factors, the most important and controversial of which is perhaps "everything". Today, we're going to discuss everything, and…

You press a button; a character on the television screen jumps. You press the same button again, while the on-screen character is in the air; the character jumps again. In video-gamer vernacular, this is called a "double jump." To a gaming outsider, the concept might not make any sense. It might…

Flickr: several seconds On this week’s episode of the Reply All podcast , a story about the Internet encroaching on a world that has managed pretty successfully to block it out — New York’s Ultra Orthodox Jewish community. New Square, NY, is about 30 miles north of New York city, and it is home to a…

Thinking, Not Always Joking, About What Video Games Can Be

Many ruder-than-scientific words exist for "homosexual"; the faceless internet crams my inbox with them every day. Usually, they're in YouTube comments. I like when I get a YouTube comment from someone who says something interesting—or nice, though interesting is more fun than nice. I like to…

Our guy in Tokyo has descended upon San Francisco's Game Developers Conference. We asked him for a report. This is what we got. I don't have internet access in my hotel room. This is the year 2010, the year that Arthur C. Clarke imagined we, the human race, would be first making contact with aliens…

We can't all be rock stars. Or can we? Why can't we all be rock stars? Who says we can't all be rock stars? "They" say we can't all be rock stars. Who are "they"? Who knows? Then we have the people who say they don't want to be rock stars. They say they'd rather lead a simple, calmer life. Maybe a…

Game of Fear What if a stalker had an army? Zoe Quinn’s ex-boyfriend was obsessed with destroying her reputation—and thousands of online strangers were eager to help. By | Boston Magazine | Zoe Quinn. (Photograph by Jason Grow) The first thing Eron Gjoni said after sitting down across from me at…

Much as I automatically deny it, video games have influenced every element of my life in some way. If Sherlock Holmes were to spy me on the street wearing any one of the garments in my closet, he would be able to deduce, as he shook my hand, "So you are a fan of the television games, I perceive."…

I've been writing for Kotaku , off and on, since 2007. I've been reading it longer than that. One of the accounts I follow on Twitter ( follow me! ) begs me to not read the comments on blogs. Of course, I don't listen, and that is why my head is crammed with weird shards of anecdotal evidence that…

I dare say the Nintendo 64 is The Most Interesting Game System Nintendo Ever Made. It's interesting for a laundry list of historical reasons: 1. Nintendo stuck with cartridges when CD-ROM was clearly The New Thing. CD-ROM would have allowed full-motion video and digital sound. Nintendo stuck with…

 I've lived in Japan for a long time. When I first came here, I liked living here. Now, I don't. I haven't changed. Japan hasn't really changed, either. Something else, however, has. N Maybe all three of these things are part of the same problem. N I would like to say that I intend to flesh out…

Editor’s Note: Matt Duhamel contributed ‘Love, Dad’ to the latest issue of Five out of Ten, Future . Matt’s father passed away a few weeks ago, and he asked if we would publish the essay on our website so he could share these memories of his father with family and friends. This essay, Matt’s other…

Continuing here with the questions that were sent in by Jason Yates! Yesterday it was the TEF system … today it’s Jedi! Some of this stuff has been told before, but it’s actually kind of hard to find it all in one continuous tale. I have to preface this with a huge huge disclaimer , though: it’s…