How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt George Papadopoulos was working as an energy consultant in London when the Trump campaign named him a foreign policy ad

The more popular a computer platform becomes, the more of a bind in which it inevitably finds itself. A platform is only “finished” when it is abandoned. It needs to evolve to remain relevant, but it’

Posted in: Attractions , City Guide , Food , Local Color , Restaurants I am not the first to discover Bar Luce . Designed by filmmaker Wes Anderson, it opened in 2015 and I did not learn of its existe

Analyse a story or script, and you can break down the narrative into parts: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution. Sex is much the same. Yet wh

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This guest post was written by Miles Currie. Miles is currently a post-baccalaureate researcher studying Type Ia supernova cosmology. This post represents Miles’ views and not the views of his employe

The history of Apple being doomed doesn’t necessarily repeat, but it does rhyme. Take the latest installment , from Professor Mohanbir Sawhney at the Kellogg School of Management (one of my former pro

The bra is a product sprung from a perceived necessity, and from an attempt to create necessity where there is none or very little. Courtesy Everett Collection Late one morning, in a house in Peru’s S

4 min read · Oct 16, 2017 -- A boat on a lake, honestly how do you choose art for something like this? // Viswanath Duvvuri/Flickr A friend of mine, who is a man, reached out to me privately earlier t

Published in Human Parts · 5 min read · Oct 9, 2017 -- A re you a man confused on how to treat the women you work with? Do you feel like if you can’t say or do *anything* you don’t know what to say or

Posted in: Food , Personal Essay , Random Musings , Restaurants “You never wrote about the curry plane.” “The … the curry plane?” He nods, pouting. I am confused. “Like, a plane of existence that cons

It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Three years in, the Apple Watch is still the Apple Watch. This wasn’t a foregone conclusion. When Apple introduced the Apple Watch in the fall

Disability Playing the Online Dating Game, in a Wheelchair Credit... Dadu Shin The first time I forayed into online dating, I let my wheelchair show just a little in my photos. The good guys, I hoped,

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. I’ve been surprised by the negative reactions I’ve seen to the idea of embedding cellular connectivity in an Apple Watch. Sure, there are plen

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Tuesday was a big day. iPhone X. iPhone 8. Apple TV 4K. Apple Watch Series 3. But the biggest product unveil of all? No contest: It was Apple

Apple Park and the Steve Jobs Theater Apple Park’s main building — the ring — is simply massive. Driving past it on the way to yesterday’s event, it was hard not to be awed. I arrived around 8:30 for

Homer used two adjectives to describe aspects of the colour blue: kuaneos , to denote a dark shade of blue merging into black; and glaukos, to describe a sort of ‘blue-grey’, notably used in Athena’s

Posted on August 22, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi In the wake of Kai Cole’s piece about Joss Whedon , and some of the reaction to it , I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a man in the public sp

Thanks to last week’s inadvertent release of an unredacted build of HomePod’s version of iOS, we know some things that we didn’t know before. One of those things is that the new edge-to-edge iPhone is

Lauren Yee’s play starts out straightforwardly enough: An actress playing Yee (Stephenie Soohyun Park) is rehearsing the play with an actor portraying the playwright’s father, Larry Yee (Francis Jue).

From busy rooflines to plastic shutters, mismatched windows to four-car garages, the McMansion has dominated the American suburban residential landscape for almost 40 years without a notable change in

So, here’s the thing. I love my iPad Mini. It is exceptionally portable, easy to use, and efficient atthe things it does well. I’ve never owned an iPad Pro—I’ve eschewed thenormal size iPad since the

Posted on June 26, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi The first time I personally encountered Harry Potter was not long after the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, came out. I was 30 and m

Posted on June 22, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi First, my initial thoughts, as rendered on Twitter. I know folks who'll likely die if this GOP health plan passes. But I guess the big tax cut I'll get ou

Democrats Seethe After Georgia Loss: ‘Our Brand Is Worse Than Trump’ Jon Ossoff, the Democratic candidate, was joined by his fiancée, Alisha Kramer, as he addressed his supporters after his defeat in

If there’s a defining quality to the iPad Pro, it’s that the device seeks to go beyond the traditional touch interface of iOS to seek out additional ways of getting work done. For people who are comfo

Jonny Sun. Credit... Chris Buck for The New York Times Feature A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter Jonny Sun’s online personality — a sentimental alien — has attracted a huge followin

6 min read · Oct 11, 2016 -- Audra Wolowiec, “(h)ear”, 2016 Hello, I’m glad that you care about women’s rights and want to be an ally! This makes you a decent human being. Not to mention on the right

I’ve spent the last week using a new 10.5-inch iPad Pro, and this is, in many ways, the easiest product review I’ve ever written. There are several significant improvements to the hardware, and no tra

There’s something about the screen of the new 10.5” iPad Pro that feels immediately novel but quickly becomes normal, and something that seems obvious at first but reveals itself as a deeper change af

I’m continuing on my journey to write about almost every quarterly edition of Field Notes that I have, and today, I’m reaching a milestone. There were a few exceptions I had to make , but with this po

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Monday was a big day for the iPad. Apple introduced new iPad Pro models, and the unveiling of iOS 11 revealed a major focus on iPad productivi

Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API. The success of the web as a platform relies on user trust. Many

The Hottest Body Part? For a Sapiosexual, It’s the Brain Aboubacar Okeke-Diagne, a 23-year-old Brooklyn resident who identifies as sapiosexual. Credit... Celeste Sloman for The New York Times Aboubaca

Modern Love Not Friends? Then No Benefits Credit... Brian Rea My friend Nathan and I were walking to a picnic when we passed a woman named Xenia. I stopped to say hello, and she kissed me on the cheek

Today Cultured Code launched the long-anticipated next version of its task management app, Things, for iPhone , iPad , and Mac . Things has been one of the go-to task managers on Apple platforms since

The March for Science , happening tomorrow 22 April in Washington DC and in satellite events around the globe (including here in LA ), is on the one hand an obviously good idea, and at the same time q

When I was asked to speak at the Los Angeles installment of the March for Science, a vision leapt unbidden to my mind: thousands of scientists and science-lovers gathered in Pershing Square, carrying

Critics of the March for Science have a point. But those scientists who will protest and speak up globally for research have the chance to make a greater one. More than 500 separate pro-science demons