How Tarantino’s curated classic changed the way we listen to movies Published in Cuepoint · 11 min read · Sep 22, 2014 -- By DJ Pizzo Illustrations by Sean Clauretie The Rebirth Of Cool Midway through
I’m an unapologetic foodie and and a completely pretentious alcohol snob just like the rest of you. So, of course, I enjoy going to nouvelle gastropubs and pairing my saisons with housemade charcuteri
In the third episode of StartUp , the podcast about starting a podcast business, host and aspiring entrepreneur Alex Blumberg has a breakdown. “I spent three fucking thousand dollars today,” he compla
One man's quest to find scientific recognition for the menacing undulatus asperatus Ten years ago, Gavin Pretor-Pinney decided to rebrand clouds, or what he likes to refer to as the “patron goddesses
Illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo In her helpful Slate piece on how to avoid and mitigate flight delays , Amy Webb stresses that the savvy air traveler must invest energy in grooming the airport s
It’s fall, and America is once again infatuated with pumpkin spice everything. What started as a simple fascination with pumpkin spice lattes has now spread – pumpkin spice is now a culinary cancer on
Designers and corporate lawyers aren’t exactly known for seeing eye to eye, especially when it comes to trademark symbols. What a designer might think of as an unnecessary besmirchment of a beautiful
Opinion How to Stop Time Credit... Viktor Hachmang IN the unlikely event that we could ever unite under the banner of a single saint, it might just be St. Expeditus. According to legend, when the Roma
Alex Chrum can easily recite the most common sexist, racist and homophobic slurs. She’s privy to some of the most hateful language you’ve ever heard. And for about a year, she read it over and over ag
When you discover something great on the Internet—a choice tweet or a Tumblr post that precisely reflects your mood—there are a few options for expressing how you feel. If the post is just alright, yo
By now, you might have heard that Atlantic Media’s Andrew Golis is incubating a small social network inside the company. Golis came to Atlantic Media as entrepreneur-in-residence a little over a year
In 1919 the Hotel Pennsylvania, in New York, opened its first restaurant, with offerings notable for their descriptive simplicity: “lamb,” “potatoes: boiled,” and so on. Nearly 100 years later, the St
An Onion article titled “ New Law Enforcement Robot Can Wield Excessive Force Of 5 Human Officers ” includes a remarkable bit of artwork, which you can see above: a muscled, armored tank-like robot ar
Sierra adventure games changed my life. They're probably the reason I'm a professional writer. The first time I played a Sierra game was in 1988, when I was 7 years old. My family had just purchased o
"This is the third girl I’ve dated in three weeks, and none of them know about each other." "I’m late. I don’t know how to tell my husband. Especially since he had a vasectomy." "Is Lucy the cutest do
All these people are trying to kill email. "E-mail is dead, or at least that’s what Silicon Valley is banking on," wrote Businessweek tech reporter Ashlee Vance . There's the co-founder of Asana , the
The poetry and honesty of smiley face + winky face + eggplant Published in Matter · 18 min read · Aug 5, 2014 -- by Mary Mann We were at a concert when Maggie saw the woman her husband had cheated on
A century ago this month, Europeans stood on the brink of a war so devastating that it forced historians to create a new category: “World War.” None of the leaders at the time could imagine the wastel
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português Every once in a while you have one of those “microcosm experiences” that perfectly encapsulates the trends shaping our world. My most recen
And why simple manners can transform your relationships 9 min read · Aug 13, 2014 -- The Good Boy, 1837 M ost people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big
Fans of James Thurber will hopefully be well familiar with his memoir about his time spent at the New Yorker, working with its founding editor, Harold Ross . ' The Years With Ross ' was first publishe
State of the Art Smartphones Overstate Their Social Intelligence When a smartphone app wants to alert you to a coming appointment, a text message or some bit of breaking news from your social network,
Robin Williams’ tragic death left the entire world in shock, grieving for a man whose entire professional life was dedicated to bringing joy to others. The Internet was immediately flooded with those
The news is bleak. With Ebola on U.S. soil, we are one infected monkey away from the plot of Outbreak. Russia is threatening to invade the Ukraine. We are blowing things up in Iraq again, where starvi
Add to things that American elementary school students must learn: read, write, share, play nicely, and increasingly, how to use Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) products like Docs, Gmail, Sheets and Chrome
Jack Dorsey doesn’t know how to grade his performance. It’s early May, and Dorsey has just finished his annual reviews of Square’s 800 employees. He now needs to complete his own. So the Square CEO se
Stay on Top of Emerging Technology Trends Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community To say Twitter has had a love/hate relationship with micropayments would be putting it
So you want to own a masterpiece? It’s easy! In part two in this series about artistic authenticity, we explore how to score that painting you have always wanted. Published in The Message · 6 min read
Illustration by Slate. Can I let you in on a secret? Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong . And yet people who use two spaces are everywhere, their ug
T here are approximately 100 compact discs on my desk right now. Behind me are two racks holding another 2,000 discs. In my basement, there’s an additional couple thousand, and in my mother’s basement
July 11, 2014: On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. ” This post was a sh
Justin Bieber, from his Instagram feed. Three years ago , when I met Justin Bieber, he gave me a stuffed yellow bird with googly eyes, a rhinestone-studded black wineglass with a candle inside, and a
Susan Sontag argued that lists confer value and guarantee our existence . Umberto Eco saw in them “the origin of culture.” But lists, it turns out, might be a remarkably potent tool for jostling the m
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. FICTION & POETRY THE ACCURSED . By Joyce Carol Oates. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27.99.) Oates’
Honored Leader, it’s so good to see you’ve returned! When you disappeared, in 2003, we had to fend for ourselves. SimNation has changed radically since then. What you see now are the remnants of the S
URX has since been acquired by Pinterest. John Milinovich is now the founder and CEO of Plato . In early 2015, URX was a relatively unknown startup — a small team with a very technical product. That c