Bernie Sanders immediately distanced himself from Hillary Clinton on trade, foreign policy and the environment as he announced a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination that represents her first serious challenge from the left. In a low-key press conference outside the US Capitol building,…

(Reuters/Dado Ruvic) Last Thursday, the social giant Twitter did a very peculiar thing: It gave its 300 million users license to … stop tweeting. “We know it can be challenging to find time to get through everything,” a sympathetic Twitter tech lead wrote on the company’s blog . So instead of…

Modernist master … James Joyce, pictured in 1934. Photograph: Roger Viollet/AFP/Getty Ninety years ago this month, the fourth edition of Ford Madox Ford’s Transatlantic Review came out. It featured the first new work to be published by James Joyce since Ulysses in 1922. The modestly titled,…

A woman accused of being a getaway driver in a series of robberies in St. Louis has changed her plea from guilty to not guilty after finding out that a stingray was used in her case. Wilqueda Lillard was originally set to testify against her three other co-defendants, whose charges were also dropped…

The mythic role assigned to progress in today’s popularculture has any number of odd effects, but one of the strangest is theblindness to the downside that clamps down on the collective imagination of ourtime once people become convinced that something or other is the wave of thefuture. It doesn’t…

Lauren Giordano / The Atlantic When I was 8 years old I had a game I liked to play in my front yard in suburban New Jersey. My siblings were older and mostly out of the house, my parents worked long hours, and when there was nothing much to do, I’d walk in circles while shaking a piece of string,…

Lawrenceof Arabia is probably the most famous name to come out of the First World War.It was a long grinding, muddy war in the trenches that ended more withexhaustion than victory, leaving nobody covered with glory. T. E. Lawrence wasthe exception, the lone individual who made a difference, an…

Story highlights South Vietnamese air force pilot makes Houdini-like escape Pilot refused to tell how he saved family for years Pilot Ha emotional reunion with American sailors who helped Pilot's daughter says her quiet father turned into Tom Cruise (CNN) If you'd seen him in the crowded room that…

"Where the streets have no name," sang rock frontman Bono on one of U2's biggest hits. "It must be hell being a postman, then," came the sarcastic rejoinder from the music press. But out in the real world, about four billion people on the planet actually live in places that have no street names, no…

Will there ever be another Red Hat? It depends on what you are asking. If the question is will there be other companies that go public based on a model of using open source to power an enterprise software offering, the answer is clearly yes. Hortonworks just did so and the IPO pipeline is likely to…

The Money Issue Credit Illustration by Matt Dorfman H eather Jacobs, a chain-­spa masseuse in Simi Valley, Calif., never knows how much money is coming her way. When her spa charges $99 for a 55-­minute massage, she makes $18. But if she books just two massages in a six-­hour workday, the spa must…

Hosted by Gene Policinski, COO of The Newseum Institute. http://www.newseum.org/2015/04/24/the... See pictures from the event here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/newseum... Panelists: Cenk Uygur, CEO and Host, TYT Network Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News Dylan…

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This post has been updated. American Airlines flights experienced significant delays this evening after pilots’ iPads—which the airline uses to distribute flight plans and other information to the crew—abruptly crashed. ”Several dozen” flights were affected by the outage, according to a spokesperson…

Erich Lessing/Art Resource Giuseppe Arcimboldo: The Librarian , 1566. Is there a relationship between the quantity of books available to us, the ease with which they can be written and published, and our reading experience? At present, for example, it’s hard not to feel that we are in an era of…

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The Money Issue Dante Castiglione, a Bitcoin broker, pays a client in U.S. dollars at a temporary office in Buenos Aires. Credit Mark Peterson/Redux, for The New York Times D ante Castiglione stalked through the doors of a glass-walled office tower on the edge of downtown Buenos Aires, just a few…

Building a Smarter Planet. A Smarter Planet Blog. April, 29th 2015 5:00 Posted by Steve Hamm in IBM Research Innovation Inventions Smarter Planet Post feed RSS 2.0 Mark Ritter, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research By Mark Ritter In 1981, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman challenged…

Abstract While Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, the abundance of trees is skewed strongly towards relatively few ‘hyperdominant’ species. In addition to their diversity, Amazonian trees are a key component of the global carbon cycle, assimilating and storing more carbon than any other…

Aaron’s law, the proposed law named in honor of Internet hero Aaron Swartz was reintroduced last week by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Senator Wyden (D-Ore.), with new co-sponsor Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.). This bill is the same as the one introduced in 2013 and we call upon Congress to move it…

French soldiers on patrol in Bangui. A report into sexual abuse of children by some French peacekeepers has been leaked to French prosecutors.Photograph: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images A senior United Nations aid worker has been suspended for disclosing to prosecutors an internal report on the…

The Stack Archive Data Centre Biggest ever recorded DDoS attack strikes Asian data centre Wed 29 Apr 2015 Share Share 1 Shares The largest ever DDoS attack, measuring 334Gbps of unwanted traffic, has been recorded at a data centre belonging to an Asian network operator in the first quarter of this…

Erika Hayasaki Apr 27, 2015 This terrifying disorder turns people into zombies, into living, breathing ghosts; they believe they died, or never existed. And somewhere in their brains may be the key to human consciousness. By Erika Hayasaki Photographs by Eunice Adorno for Matter Conceptual…

Photographer Huang Qingjun is famous in China for his photo series, Family Stuff. Since 2003 he has been asking subjects to pose with everything they own, neatly displayed in front of their homes. Huang has eyes that crinkle at the sides when he smiles. It's a friendly face, and a huge asset when he…

(Courtesy Michael A. Freeman) Michael A. Freeman had long noticed that entrepreneurs seem inclined to have mental health issues. The clinical professor of psychology at UC-San Francisco’s medical school spent a decade at a company where his clients were the founders of businesses. He estimates that…

A stronomy and biology have been circling each other with timid infatuation since the first time a human thought about the possibility of other worlds and other suns. But the melding of the two into the modern field of astrobiology really began on Oct. 4, 1957, when a 23-inch aluminum sphere called…

Credit: Courtesy of Alexei Yurchak For thousands of years humans have used embalming methods to preserve dead bodies. But nothing compares with Russia's 90-year-old experiment to preserve the body of Vladimir Lenin, communist revolutionary and founder of the Soviet Union. Generations of Russian…

The Stack Archive World UK High Court orders block on Popcorn Time Wed 29 Apr 2015 Share Share 0 Shares Five ISPs have been given orders by the UK High Court to restrict access to sites offering downloads of popular movie streaming service Popcorn Time – a move which follows complaints from the…

Robyn Metcalfe Contributor Dr. Robyn Metcalfe is the Editor and Publisher of Food + City , a new platform for bold exploration of our global food system. More posts by this contributor What Happened To The Food Industry Last Year? The Coming Food Bubble Editor’s note: Robyn Metcalfe is a food…

London’s Oxford Street in 1965, when city planning was dominated by a desire to accommodate the car.Photograph: Powell/Getty Images G illes Vesco calls it the “new mobility”. It’s a vision of cities in which residents no longer rely on their cars but on public transport, shared cars and bikes and,…

There's a reason the image of the floundering, scared, shaky post-teen struggling to enter adulthood is a cliché. Between moving out of your parent's home, going to college and getting a job, lack of sleep, drugs, and unrestricted access to alcohol, becoming an adult is fucking hard. So it's no…

Marchers with #FightFor15 banner on Amsterdam Avenue in New York City during rally on behalf of low-income workers nationwide.Photograph: Andy Katz/Demotix/Corbis Workers in Atlanta, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and more than 200 cities across the US walked out on their jobs or joined marches and…

Share this article: Photo courtesy Waze. A Los Angeles city deal with traffic app Waze may be great, but some local communities are being inundated with “cut-through” traffic that must stop, a Los Angeles City Councilman said Tuesday. Paul Krekorian introduced a motion to help local neighborhoods,…

Cohen to Testify That Trump Engaged in Criminal Conduct House Set to Pass Measure Blocking Trump’s National Emergency on Wall Powell Affirms ‘Patient Approach’ to Future Interest-Rate Changes Tariff Fears Led U.S. Manufacturers to Trim Spending U.S. Housing Starts End 2018 on Soft Note Prosecutors…