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The word "hopefully" has been used in thousands of NPR stories . Stephanie d'Otreppe/NPR Geoff Nunberg, the linguist contributor on NPR's Fresh Air , is the author of the book The Years of Talking Dangerously. There was something anticlimactic to the news that the AP Stylebook will no longer be…

Wrote a pretty meaty blog post about how email is probably a better marketing channel than, well, blog posts http://t.co/ozSpVXhr

I love when people call what we do at 37signals a “lifestyle business” — but probably not for the reasons they think. When the lifestyle card is pulled from its tired deck, it’s usually meant as a pat on top of the head. An “oh, that’s such a pretty drawing, dear little boy.” Ha! It’s the…

For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown to graduate with a bachelor's degree…

Onto the Web The ViolaWWW Hypermedia Browser, inspired by HyperCard Viola.org About two years later, Berners-Lee created his own World Wide Web browser, then released the coding library for the project so that programmers could develop their own versions. Soon a group of students in Finland…

The war on drugs has a new front, and so far it appears to be a losing one. Synthetic mimics of marijuana, dissociative drugs and stimulants — such as the “bath salts” allegedly consumed by Randy Eugene , the Florida man shot after a horrific face-eating assault — are growing in popularity and hard…

Summer in the City One night an old Pontiac driven by an overburdened father of six went out of control on Avenue A and crashed into a corner building, bringing the whole thing down. The noise was overwhelming, an explosion. People came running from bars and bedrooms. The tenement–empty for…

I used to be a lifehacking addict, and in some ways I still am. I have a perverse love of systems and efficiency: analyzing, configuring, optmizing, categorizing, defining, and parameter-setting. (I’m the son of two librarians, one of whom also worked as an unofficial programmer/sysadmin. I guess…

President Obama in the Oval Office with Thomas E. Donilon, left, the national security adviser, and John O. Brennan, his top counterterrorism adviser. Pete Souza/The White House WASHINGTON — This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen…

This weekend Nick Bilton collected the rumors & whispers surrounding Facebook's mobile phone project . Very interesting! I asked my friend Anil Dash if Facebook should release such a phone, and he said: What would be the business model? My mind tells me that a free, open-source [phone] with built-in…

Do you want to ... Inform the citizens of New York? Help people understand their world? Root out corruption? Make a mark on society? Craft beautiful online projects and visualizations? ( Like this diversity map , this stop & frisk project and this election tracker ? ) WNYC is growing our Data News…

The article we're discussing: The Trouble With Brain Scans http://t.co/WSA7yIUJ by me in today's Observer

Dear Lifehacker, I hate small talk. I never know how in-depth I should go into a conversation and I'm just not that into talking about the weather. With the long weekend coming up and lots of social obligations, I'm wondering, how can I turn all that small talk into an actual conversation?…

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries ‘s work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile…

Graphiti Estimates of the historical value of a user put the IPO hype in perspective. Reporting by Brian Bergstein and Mike Orcutt May 21, 2012 When Facebook went public, the company was valued at $104 billion, an astonishing figure for an Internet company. Was the figure preposterously high? That…

Nature | News Sharing Covert skill-development in songbirds challenges brain model. Article tools Rights & Permissions Birds can master new skills without the gradual improvements that normally occur with training. The improvement is all down to an ancient part of the brain that is present in all…

Coco Masuda GROWING up, Eileen Wolter, now 40 and a blogger about stay-at-home motherhood in Summit, N.J., was one of those rare teenagers without complexion concerns. “I had really good skin,” she said. “And I just used Ivory bar soap.” But in recent years, that skin has gone from picture-perfect…

Treat academic writing not as a set of inviolable rules but as a series of stylistic choices, writes Helen Sword , who has found that a conversational yet authoritative tone coupled with attention-getting titles, compelling openings, anecdotes and illustrations is the key to accessible, interesting…

'Los tocayos Carlos' – Hernandez and DeLuna looked so alike that they were sometimes mistaken for twins. Photographs: Corpus Christi police department/DeLuna family/Hernandez family/Texas dept of criminal justice/Corpus Christi Caller Times A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices…

Three years after Sandberg joined Facebook, the company is profitable. Credit Photograph by Michele Asselin In 2007, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, knew that he needed help. His social-network site was growing fast, but, at the age of twenty-three, he felt ill-equipped to run it. That…

Who are these people we follow on Twitter? I'm not referring to the celebrities or the joke accounts. We don't care about those people that much, right? But who are these people who have the names of our friends? I don't recognize many of them. One of these people seems funnier than the friend with…

A View from Christopher Mims Magazine apps failed, and their unexpected replacements could threaten revenue. May 8, 2012 Jason Pontin, editor in chief and publisher of Technology Review, which (full disclosure!) is the publication you are reading now, recently penned an intriguing takedown of the…

If the Internet has taught us anything, it’s that people are really into anthropomorphized cats. They’re good for a chuckle , sure, but their popularity gets at the more interesting question of why and how we share online, and what that means for the changing ways in which we engage with all kinds…

He is slight and soft-spoken, and even offhand sentences emerge as if flawlessly etched in crystal; his instructions to a grocer could probably be diagrammed. Michael Sandel doesn’t look like the sort of person who could hold a boisterous audience in thrall. And yet his every lecture packs Harvard’s…

Something strange is happening in the world of Facebook's frictionless sharing apps. News apps that automatically share a user's reading activity with their friends lost huge amounts of active users in April, according to AppData.com tracking. Forbes' Jeff Bercovici first reported the trend for The…

It often takes decades to build the sort of companies that the best executives and entrepreneurs hope to create. It can take so long that by the time this value is finally created, many short-term investors will have long since jettisoned their positions. In the last couple of decades, no company…