illustrator Anafelle Liu 1.2 Share on Tumblr E-mail Editor's Note: In keeping with what’s clearly become a habit for the Social Issues section, we give the floor over to an under-heard—and in this case, quite controversial—voice in society: the police officer. This being Grey , hers is no ordinary…
How to Save a Sinking Coast? Katrina Created a Laboratory A house surrounded by eroded wetlands in Terrebonne Parish. Many land restoration projects in Louisiana are under way or completed. Credit...
Opinion The Weekend Interview The New Horizons leader on how the mission succeeded, what the distant planet revealed, and where the probe is going next. By Kyle Peterson July 17, 2015 7:11 pm ET Photo
T he boarding procedure has barely started at Chicago O’Hare, and Ben Schlappig has already taken over the first-class cabin. Inside Cathay Pacific Flight 807 bound for Hong Kong, he’s passing out a c
The Long, Strange Trip to Pluto, and How NASA Nearly Missed It Engineers put New Horizons through a spin test in June 2005 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Credit... Michael Soluri
Tesla, the fastest-growing stock in the automotive industry, is run by a software engineer. Amazon has a market cap three times bigger than Target, even though it operates at a loss. Instagram, a comp
NICE, France—Their fingers were too numb to grip a water bottle, let alone the brakes. As the freezing rain turned to hail on a Saturday afternoon in March, the riders in the peloton shivered their wa
But Minecraft does not conform to the stereotype of computer games. While big gaming companies were focused on enhancing graphics and details, it broke the rules. In fact, Minecraft has no rules at al
Published in The Message · 10 min read · Jun 1, 2015 -- Classic movie antagonists who were actually pretty much right all along If you haven’t seen Top Gun in a while… I strongly recommend it. It’s on
SEAL Team 6: A Secret History of Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines transcript 0:00/0:09 -0:00 transcript Rescue Operation Members of SEAL Team 6 and other units parachute from a plane near the Navy fri
Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds and I own a lot of Twitter stock. 3) I do
Business is noisy. Business is full of people worrying loudly about projects, process, and other people. These people have opinions and they share them all over the place — all the time. This collecti
The past 12 months sucked. Over that span I lost my grandmother, a childhood friend, and a colleague. Grief is a weak spring; if there’s not enough time between blows, you don’t bounce back. You just
3 min read · Jul 19, 2013 -- Meetings may be toxic, but calendars are the superfund sites that allow that toxicity to thrive. All calendars suck. And they all suck in the same way. Calendars are a rec
By Dan Miller Dec 22, 2014 At Etsy, it’s not just engineers who write and deploy code - our designers and product managers regularly do too. And now any Etsy employee can sign up for an “engineering r
Do you want to break through at the 70.3 distance? Is running your weak link? Running well off the bike requires strong bike and run fitness. It also requires specific practice. I am often asked how much running off the bike should be done, and for how long. This depends on what you are trying to…
The New Health Care Simple Rules for Healthy Eating Over the past few months, I’ve written a number of times on how nutrition recommendations are seldom supported by science . I’ve argued that what ma
Careers Management & Careers How Family Card Games Teach Math, Memory and Self-Confidence From Canasta to Crazy 8s, playing helps children, especially in a time of screens and schedules April 7, 2015
In this guest post, professional triathlete Jesse Thomas shares his training and lessons learned in the weeks leading up to the Half Ironman World Championships. On Aug 3rd, I finished my 6th triathlo
[Source: Amazon ] Jeff Bezos is prolific. In 21 letters to his investors over the years, he has delivered dozens of nuggets of wisdom ranging from prioritizing long-term outcomes over short-term resul
(Updated: May 1st, 2013) The Garmin Forerunner 910XT represents the next generation triathlon/multisport watch from Garmin. The watch builds on many areas that the FR305 and then FR310XT had – includi
An unprecedented look inside Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock History & Culture An unprecedented look inside Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock An unprecedented look inside Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock Dissecti
Most programming languages support a small number of popular, stable application frameworks. Objective-C and Swift apps use Apple’s excellent Cocoa framework. Ruby apps more often than not use Rails.
We recently completed a year-long project to migrate Groupon’s U.S. web traffic from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a new Node.js stack with substantial results. Groupon’s entire U.S. web f
I. The Unthinkable Commercial passenger service to space is a difficult proposition. To succeed, it has to contend with the pull of gravity, violent rocket-propelled accelerations, heavy vibrations, s
Between the parade of wet suits and abundant seafood and yoga joints, Manhattan Beach, just south of Los Angeles, tries to cling fast to its surf town roots. It's a tough battle. Strolling the boardwa
Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer This essay is adapted from a piece originally printed in the March/April 2015 issue of Orion . Request a free trial issue of Orion here . To teach evolution at the Univ
Share This Story Email Editor's Note: Attorney A.M. "Marty" Stroud III, of Shreveport, was the lead prosecutor in the December 1984 first-degree murder trial of Glenn Ford, who was sentenced to death
In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas Credit... Eleanor Taylor KATHERINE BYRON, a senior at Brown University and a member of its Sexual Assault Task Force, considers it her duty to make Brown a safe
The Invention of the Perfect Cup of Coffee How the creator of the Aerobie became the King of Java at 76 Published in Backchannel · 11 min read · Mar 16, 2015 -- Last year my electric coffeemaker broke
By Ryan Mac, David M. Ewalt and Max Jedeur-Palmgren It's 7 p.m. on a Monday in Stockholm, and Markus Persson sits on the terrace of his ninth-story office, sipping the speedball of alcoholic beverages
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The Cost of Relativism One of America’s leading political scientists, Robert Putnam, has just come out with a book called “Our Kids” about the growing chasm between those who live in college-educated
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