by Molly Beauchemin I had braces for seven years of my life — a clumsy mix of palate expanders, headgear, and invasive lip-bumpers that bulked my skinny face at a time when I was already awkward enoug
“I need to know a bit about your background,” says Geoffrey Hinton. “Did you get a science degree?” Hinton, a sinewy, dry-witted Englishman by way of Canada, is standing at a white board in Mountain V
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Did the Atlanta Olympics actually happen? Yes. Yes, they did . In 1996. Many attended, and even more watched from home. Remember? There was that Louisiana Purchase–esque steal in 1990, with the Georgi
5 killer CSS talks of 2014 Five talks which cover performance, new techniques, fun facts and the future of how we will structure our CSS code. Web Components & the Future of CSS When Philip Walton found out about Web Components, a light bulb went off and he started to think about how these tools…
W hen Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy began his first NFL job in 1993, as a Kansas City Chiefs offensive assistant working with quarterbacks, he immediately inherited a rather tricky assign
The major decision facing a modern basketball offense is whether they are going to be a traditional, double-post offense with bangers at the center and power forward positions, or whether they are goi
Kids in Providence’s program wear a device that records adult words, child vocalizations, and conversational turns. Illustration by Leo Espinosa One morning in September, Lissette Castrillón, a casewo
Next post Previous post By now you’ve read Marco Arment’s post on Apple’s declining software quality. You’ve probably read the responses by Lukas Mathis , Daniel Jalkut , John Gruber , Casey Liss , an
A few minutes before two o'clock on a Friday afternoon last fall, Dain Hancock stood up and left a packed auditorium in Fort Worth, Texas. He tried to be unobtrusive, but every eye in the room followe
In mid-September, while President Obama was fending off complaints that he should have done more, done less, or done something different about the overlapping crises in Iraq and Syria, he traveled to
Over the past two decades or so, a cultural phenomenon has taken hold in America. It involves grown men and women pretending to be the owners of imaginary professional sports teams on the internet. It
Following the news in 2014 is a bit like flying a kite in flat country during tornado season. Every so often, a whirlwind of outrage touches down, sowing destruction and chaos before disappearing into
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When I see Dave Chappelle for the first time, at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, he looks damn happy. Like, shit-eating-grin * happy. Like, irrepressible-little-kid happy. The way Dave is today—it’
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Whether they like it or not, Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston will be compared and contrasted extensively between now and April 30 th , 2015 – Day 1 of the NFL draft. Both players look like they could have been dreamt up by NFL general managers and manifested in physical form. Mariota stands 6-4…
Jaime is “creeped out” by technology. She uses her phone to get directions to her new job, only to find that the phone already knows where her office is . While shopping online, her favorite retail pa
TALLAHASSEE — Given the 80-odd mostly white students, the occasional ball caps and tattoos, the Tuesday morning hush and the student quickly punching her phone for the time (10:30), this Room 208 coul
Published in The JavaScript Collection · 5 min read · Dec 3, 2014 -- With just a few lines of code you can get analytics about specific user interactions on your site. Cross reference successes, failu
Cue the Musberger voice: “the Grandaddy of them all, the big cheese, for all the Roses!”. Though Musberger may not be on the call this time around, the Rose Bowl carries as much weight as ever as Flor
On Jan. 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old high school student from Baltimore, went missing. About a month later, police uncovered her body in a nearby park; an autopsy would later find that she wa
Design Explosions #1 Mapping on iOS Hullo! Design Explosions is a new series by UX Launchpad , a one-day, hands-on, fun design class based in sunny Seattle. Today we’re going to use Google Maps and Apple Maps as a design lesson. If you haven’t already, please check out our brief introductory post…
Mysteries of the Ancient Unknown An occasional segment where Colbert investigates unexplained phenomenon of the distant past, "Mysteries of the Ancient Unknown" peaked with his pseudo-hard-hitting 201
It only takes one person to make you happy and change your life this summer: YOU. I am endlessly fascinated by the link between the way we choose to live our lives and the happiness we enjoy on a dail
Published in Technology Musings · 12 min read · Dec 22, 2014 -- Podcasting started about ten years ago and I remember watching Dave Winer and Adam Curry devise a way in public, in near real-time, to t
S ometimes you see something that feels like it was pulled straight from your imagination. It can almost feel invasive — like someone has aggregated all the things that interest you, that haunt you, t
At the end of a gravel road in the Chippewa National Forest of northern Minnesota, a group of camp counselors has gathered to hear psychotherapist Tina Bryson speak about neuroscience, mentorship, and
Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, and Jim Webb may all run for President in 2016. Illustration by John Cuneo The Sunday before Election Day, Hillary Clinton addressed a crowd of voters at an afternoon
I’m not going to sit here and write some column seething with venom and overt rage towards the New York Times. That looked ugly enough on their end when they did it last night . What I will say is tha
Programmers dream of new code. We spend a good deal of our time working on code we didn’t write for software we didn’t create, much of which we believe is horribly written (or, at least, could be done
A version of this story appears in the Dec. 29 issue of Sports Illustrated. Don Brown had just spent an hour inside the Boston College defensive film room, dissecting the performance of Florida State
This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Jan. 5 Championship Drive Issue. Subscribe today! THE 35-SECOND CLIP encapsulates how far apart they are, one man casually spinning a football on his fingers,
I t started as a continuation of the misadventures of the Griswold family; it ended up becoming one of the most surprisingly popular and oft-quoted holiday movies of all time. National Lampoon’s Chris
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| USA TODAY Sports ATLANTA — Paul Johnson had already been at Navy for four years when he placed a call to Roger Inman, his old do-everything man from Georgia Southern. They had known each other since
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Power down When is the last time you powered down. All the way down. Not asleep. Not in airplane mode but ON | OFF . Try it with me now. Take your phone out, if you’re not already futzing with it, and
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