Popular Sciencespoke with Rick DeLano, whose movieThe Principleshows the worlds most famous cosmologists promoting the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe.
Have you ever fallen for a novel and been amazed not to find it on lists of great books? Or walked around a sculpture renowned as a classic, struggling to see what the fuss is about? So, how does a work of art come to be considered great?
I was born with a controller in my hand. At least, that’s the story my mother loved to tell me growing up. She demanded my father go out and buy her an original Game Boy and a copy of Tetris while she
Published 19 April 2014 Share page About sharing Image source, Shannon Airport Authority Shannon Airport in the Irish Republic has long been the unlikely host to celebrities and US presidents making t
Wednesday, Apr 23 2014 click to flip through (3) AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File DA Gascon discusses kill-switches during a 2013 press conference in New York. smartphone theft Alex had a gnawing, uneas
On a drive in a convoy of Google's autonomous vehicles last week, a difficult driving situation arose. As our platoon approached a major intersection, two Google cars ahead of us crept forward into th
Last month, Brendan Nyhan, a professor of political science at Dartmouth, published the results of a study that he and a team of pediatricians and political scientists had been working on for three ye
He was in his office when the shooting started. He was there for the aftermath, the years-long recovery that came at a great personal cost. Now, fifteen years after the tragedy that birthed a terrible new chapter in American history, hes finally decided to call it quits. This is his story.
In the Far Cry games, fire is a wonderful tool. It spreads dynamically, opening up a wealth of creative and strategic possibilities for players to achieve their goals. However, it also gets out of con
I’m not a morning person , so I appreciate living in New York. The workday here starts later than in any other American city, and about half an hour later than in the U.S. as a whole. A decade or so a
The gaming industry used to be flooded with interesting peripherals. The era of the music game gave us piles of plastic instruments across two generations of consoles. PC gamers embraced racing wheels
Originally published April 2014, just a few months prior to Adelman's departure from Nintendo . What are the tastes, backgrounds and experience of some of the biggest decision-makers at major console
New first-class seating units can cost more than half a million dollars each. Illustration by Harry Campbell Seven years ago, I flew business class on Qantas from Australia to California, a thirteen-h
LONDON is a long way down from the top of the Shard, 1,000ft above the city. But it does not feel quite so far down as it once did. Tall buildings are sprouting not just in the City and Canary Wharf,
Amazon has been all over the headlines this week, courtesy of its intriguing $99 Fire TV capsule console . From hiring talent like Portal's Kim Swift and Far Cry 2's Clint Hocking , to buying Killer I
This weekend was supposed to be a fairly uneventful weekend for Tesla, as weekends for Tesla go. They weren't being banned from sale , and nothing caught fire . But the ever-present specter of Subredd
Last week a YouTube reality show about game jams starring several notable independent game developers was being produced with a reported budget of $400,000, but never made it off the ground due to a h
Can you be racist or sexist without meaning to be? Often, that question gets asked in relation to works of art—can a work be racist or sexist if its creator doesn’t mean for it to be? And lots of peop
Why It's Imperative to Teach Students How to Question as the Ultimate Survival Skill Mar 14, 2014 By Warren Berger Friday March 14 is the 135 th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s birthday, a good time
The First 48 Makes Millions Off Imprisoning Innocents Terrence McCoy | January 16, 2014 | 4:00am A A No one thought twice about the gunshots. It was just before midnight on NW 77th Street in Little Ha
When Hollywood Wants Good, Clean Fun, It Goes to Mormon Country Christina Skyles (purple hair), Allen Ostergar (center, to right of tree) and other students from the B.Y.U. animation program. Credit..
Unexcited? There May Be a Pill for That Credit... Jake Chessum for The New York Times Linneah sat at a desk at the Center for Sexual Medicine at Sheppard Pratt in the suburbs of Baltimore and filled o
Paying Till It Hurts The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. MERRICK, N.Y. — Deirdre Yapalater’s recent colonoscopy at a surgical
TRIGGER WARNING: This post contains stories and verbal depictions of sexism and harassment in the video game industry. “I’ve been to GDC every year…since 2007…I have someone ask me if I’m lost. I have
Target was prepared for such an attack. And yet, the retail giantstood by as 40 million credit card numbers and 70 million addresses, phone numbers, and other pieces of personal information gushed out of its mainframes.
There's been a lot of attention paid to the portrayal of women in games of late, but one session in the GDC Advocacy Track today focused on the portrayal of men, and the influence that might have on s
Yesterday, Facebook announced it was purchasing Oculus VR in a deal worth approximately $2 billion. Words like "shocking" and "bombshell" get thrown around a lot in the press, but it's not difficult t
This post originally appeared on GAMESbrief . The valuation of King has me terrified. If King tanks after its stock market debut this week (and I think it will), that will be bad news for the games in
We’re more than 20 months from the first Republican presidential primary, and the pool of candidates is inchoate. Pollsters are asking voters about 10 candidates, none of whom registers higher than 20
The author visiting (for just the second time) the 400-acre farm near Tekamah, Neb., that he bought in 1986 for $280,000 FORTUNE — “Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.” –Benjamin Graham , The Intelligent Investor It is fitting to have a Ben Graham quote open this essay…
You ever listen to someone talk at a live event and feel like you're a part of something greater, that there's a real movement underway? That's what it felt like to sit in on a presentation from BioWa
This article originally appeared in the July 2004 issue of Esquire. You can find every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic . The coffee, he thinks. The coffee's a concern. Only one hundred
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