The angriest and most pessimistic people in America aren’t the hipster protesters who flitted in and out of Occupy Wall Street. They aren’t the hashtavists of #BlackLivesMatter. They aren’t the remnan
LONDON — On Friday nights for three years, they met over pints at the Castle, a pub in Islington, in North London. The four men were getting on in years, but they were not there just to talk about ret
Kim Scott has built her career around a simple goal: Creating bullshit-free zones where people love their work and working together. She first tried it at her own software startup. Then, as a long-time director at Google, she studied how the…
18 min read · Dec 2, 2015 -- There are twelve of us left. The first thing the prosecutor did during voir dire was ask all the men of color whether we trusted cops. Every black man had a story: police
Retro Report ‘The Boy in the Bubble’ Moved a World He Couldn’t Touch transcript 0:00/12:29 -0:00 transcript The Boy in the Bubble In the early 1970s, an unusual boy captivated the nation. Now, decades
A B-52 bomber in October at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, where about half of the Air Force's bombers are based. Credit... Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times After 60 Years, B-52s Stil
95,000 Words, Many of Them Ominous, From Donald Trump’s Tongue transcript 0:00/1:59 -0:00 transcript For Trump, ‘We’ Are Good and ‘They’ Are Bad Donald J. Trump led cheering supporters through a lands
Inside the viral story of Gravity CEO Dan Price. Bloomberg is republishing its story originally out on Dec. 1, 2015. Dan Price announced this week that he was resigning as CEO of Gravity , right befor
Donald Trump said this to supporters at an Alabama rally: 'Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming…
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A Century Ago, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Changed Everything Credit... Chad Hagen PRINCETON, N.J. — By the fall of 1915, Albert Einstein was a bit grumpy. And why not? Cheered on, to his disgust,
Workers such as these, bicycling to a factory in Zhongshan, China, will be scarcer in the future. Photo: Gilles Sabrié for The Wall Street Journal By Greg Ip Nov. 22, 2015 9:48 am ET Ever since the gl
State of Terror ISIS Women and Enforcers in Syria Recount Collaboration, Anguish and Escape Aws, 25, a former resident of Raqqa, Syria, used to be a member of the Khansaa Brigade, the Islamic State's
OMG OMG OMG! Théo Sanson recently slacklined across a gap spanning nearly a third of a mile in Utah, which might just be a world record. This is gorgeously filmed; you really get a sense of the scale
Credit... Illustration by Boris Pelcer Feature The Doomsday Scam For decades, aspiring bomb makers — including ISIS — have desperately tried to get their hands on a lethal substance called red mercury
An artist’s concept shows what the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa may look like. NASA/JPL-Caltech It is a nightmare glacier, tormented by the giant of our Solar System ever looming on its horizon. J
I woke up this morning totally lost. Like every day. "Where am I?" For the smallest of seconds, I'm a stranger in my own body. In my own life. And then the whole history of life swoops down and I'm li
“The stage was set. And we turned up. And the people said, 'yes.' And then it just exploded.” Twenty years after Britpop, Noel Gallagher is still our most outspoken rock star. Exclusively for Esquire
This post originally appeared on Wait But Why. Say hi to Lucy. Advertisement Image: WaitButWhy.com Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She’s als
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“Do something, or die.” —Meghan Daum Twenty-three miles down, 26 and change to go. Ought to be an aid station in a couple of miles, and I’m thinking I should pop another energy gel about now. But I’ve
The Red Bull Air Race just finished up its 2015 season in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago. Dreams were crushed, world champions were crowned, and a bunch of amazing planes did things that seemed to viola
Photo Credit Tom Starkweather/Bloomberg News. Obese children who cut back on their sugar intake see improvements in their blood pressure, cholesterol readings and other markers of health after just 10
What if I told you that after a hundred years of rigorous competition, car manufacturers have finally created the perfect automobile? Would you believe that the evolution of car design has culminated
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Quality of life and sustainability may keep us ahead of Texas in the long run By Bill Gray Friday, September 18, 2015 Say what? Did I hear that correctly? I was driving to work last July, listening to Minnesota Public Radio , when I thought I heard the announcer say that Minnesota had ousted Texas…
Click above to see where we've been on CNET's Road Trip 2015. To the tech entrepreneurs who've set up shop on the Silicon Prairie, there's no better place to be. Silicon Valley ideas get meshed with M
Innovative, eco-friendly technology is now cheap enough for everyday use. Construction by Stephen Doyle / Photograph by Eric Helgas Mark and Sara Borkowski live with their two young daughters in a cen
People of all ages offer words of wisdom to their younger counterparts in this WireTap farewell video, from CBC Radio One. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/CBCSubscribe Watch CBC: http://bit.ly/FullEpisodesCB
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“Who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned” One way of looking at a publisher’s chain of business operations is that there are five core things it must do: (1) produce content; (2) market/promot
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