In April and May of 2013, Yale Law professor Dan Kahan — working with coauthors Ellen Peters, Erica Cantrell Dawson, and Paul Slovic — set out to test a question that continuously puzzles scientists:
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I admit it: you intimidate me. Your work is vivid and imaginative, far superior to my woeful scratchings at a similar age. The things I struggle to learn barely make you sweat. One day, you’ll be a be
February 4, 2017 There's a moment in Spuds MacKenzie's interview with Dick Clark when Clark shifts gears and, as if by obligation, brings up the recent bad press the bull terrier has been the subject
Reading news online over the past year, I came to realize that more or less every story now includes a beautiful woman. Tucked into modules with names like "around the web" or "you might like," there
TOKYO, JAPAN — Rémi Coulom is sitting in a rolling desk chair, hunched over a battered Macbook laptop, hoping it will do something no machine has ever done. That may take another ten years or so, but
As he flew from Orange County to Seattle in September 2013, Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Oculus, couldn’t envision what the next six months would bring. The rhapsodic crowds at the Consumer Electronics S
If you're watching TV or listening to music and you feel like discussing it online, Facebook believes, nothing should stand in the way. Not even a few keystrokes. The social networking giant spent mor
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Vladimir Rys/Bongarts / Getty Images In the middle of 1989, suburban soccer dad Chuck Blazer had just lost his job, had no income, and was struggling with debt. But he did have a few things going for
I came across a website whose purpose was to provide a super detailed list of every handheld computing environment going back to the early 1970's. It did a great job except for one glaring omission: t
Story: Nitsuh Abebe Spend much time browsing Kickstarter, and you’re bound to notice: there are a lot of wallets happening here. Granted, “a lot” is a relative term. As I type this, there are 4,463 pr
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The following abstract was first published in The New England Journal of Big-Time Science in 2007. - - - The Effects Of Being Repeatedly Called “Jeffy-Weffy Ding-Dong” On The Human Rage Response In Su
Is it possible to propose a software canon ? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply influential—that changed the nature of the code that followed? Canons emerge over time, as certain wor
David Sparshott Invoke the word autocorrect and most people will think immediately of its hiccups—the sort of hysterical, impossible errors one finds collected on sites like Damn You Autocorrect. But
A few weeks ago, news emerged that a New York building was planning a separate entrance for residents of its low-income units– “poor doors.” Outrage ensued, but the truth is, urban design that tries t
Stewart is hungry. He's munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long metal table that once served as a gurney in the morgue at the Treasure Island Naval Base. It's a prom
But in the summer of 2012, Mark Stone reappeared, reactivating his old email and setting up a bank card with the same signature but a new address. A photo ID from the British Library showed Stone with
Image by Ben Thomson Everyone has to make a living. Some do this by making garish gifs of young women gratefully covered in jizz, alongside phrases like "stop jerking off" and "horny bitches in your area." One of those people is a young Jewish lady: an illustrator and graphic designer who didn't…
Lizhong Fan’s desk was among a crowd of cubicles at the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center in Phoenix. For five months in 2007, the Chinese national and computer programmer opened his laptop
An only child, Ruppert’s family had close ties to the military and federal government. His father was a US Air Force pilot during the Second World War and later worked for Martin Marietta — which beca
Since the mid-1980s, private companies have contracted with states and branches of the federal government to assume certain prison operations. The argument behind these contracts has been that private
And why MLB quietly banned EPO, cycling’s drug of choice Gus Garcia-Roberts Jul 30, 2014 · 12 min read By Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts Illustration by Trenton Duerksen Eccentric, exacting, and s
Getting Soylent The first challenge to living on Soylent is obtaining it, which is surprisingly difficult. Thanks to the white-hot buzz generated by media coverage, Soylent is asking new customers to
Editor's Note: This essay originally appeared in the London Review of Books in 2003, titled "Using So Little." This slightly edited and updated version is excerpted from Sean Wilsey's new collection o
One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the road, and nobody speaks, sings, eats, or drinks as the nation pays respect to the victims of the Nazi genocide. From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, the only…
A waiter works in a Paris brasserie, Le Train Bleu, on April 11, 2013. FRED DUFOUR/Getty "Welcome to my restaurant; now please pay my employees." That's tipping in a nutshell, according to Mark Ventur
How a culture shift nearly doomed an iconic local company that once dominated the telecom industry. Published Aug. 25, 2014, at 11:50 a.m. O n the 18th floor of the Merchandise Mart, in a soaring two-
Hey China, you're welcome. When you think about your future multi-million dollar shipping moguls, innovative tech giants, and up-and-coming diplomats, please remember a small handful of them probably received their Ivy League degrees thanks to me. I'm a black market college admissions essay writer,…
SCROLL DOWN T he message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1
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“You’re a good looking girl. Wow. I want to attack you.” That’s what a dude said to me last week while I walked through Toronto’s Chinatown. I was in town for a comedy festival and feeling fairly free
Earlier this month, a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri . The shooting and the response have reignited concerns about racial profiling, pol
In September, when it wasn’t quite autumn in New York but after the long hot summer had ended, I rode up an elevator in New York’s Flat Iron district to the offices of First Look Media to meet with th
Howard Lutnick had to rebuild Cantor Fitzgerald after losing nearly 700 people on Sept. 11, 2001, beginning with a search for the passwords only they knew. Credit... Leslye Davis Howard Lutnick, the c
The untold story of Jelani Henry, who says Facebook likes landed him in Rikers The Henry brothers , Asheem and Jelani, were born exactly one year apart to the day, in the warm Junes of 1991 and ‘92. “
The wild story of how a mortgage scammer persuaded a dead man's sister to turn over his business, his truck, and his resume — and got a government contract to clean up Ebola. A BuzzFeed News investiga
Illustration by Tavis Coburn Along a lonely state highway on central Montana’s high plains, I approach what looks like a ranch entrance, complete with cattle guard. “The first ace in the hole,” reads