Rechner by Berger & Föhr, the app that converted me to “fLAT DESIGN.” Is flat design just a fad or is it progress? 8 min read · Jul 7, 2013 -- I’ve typed and deleted many words since the flat trend be

For much of the iPhone's life Apple has enjoyed a first-mover advantage. At the launch of the first iPhone, Steve Jobs expected the device and OS would give it a multi-year head start over the competi

The cement was dirty, but so were my pants after three weeks of traveling. I lay down on the sidewalk in front of the Sagrada Família, stretching back to look up at the Nativity Façade, trying to capt

Jony Ive: The man behind Apple's magic curtain CUPERTINO, Calif. — The man who designed the iPod ponders the question with furrowed brow. "That's a good one," says Jony Ive, when asked what he would t

Published in Monday Note · 5 min read · Sep 15, 2013 -- Remember netbooks? When Apple was too greedy and stupid to make a truly low-cost Macintosh? Here we go again, Apple refuses to make a genuinely

One of the enduring mysteries of the iPhone has been its lack of a portfolio. After six years it seems that Apple has finally acquiesced that there should be one , albeit currently limited to two item

‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ says Ozymandias’s ruined statue in the desert of Shelley’s imagination. Shelley’s sonnet is often interpreted as a sober warning that human works are fleeting, but when I read it as a young boy it kindled a sense of adventure; it suggested a wonderfully…

September 2, 2013 at 3:00 PM by When Apple was on the ropes sixteen years ago, there was no shortage of advice about what the company should do to save itself, much of it fueled by a deep love for App

NASA Today, NASA announced that the Kepler Space Telescope, which had been malfunctioning, will not be able to be repaired . Kepler may be used for other scientific operations, but its life as our cou

How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an ano

Today, when I remembered that exactly one year ago I was hospitalized for 22 days for a series of treatments to save my life , I tweeted about it. And then I opened Day One . In the app’s Calendar vie

Doing away with the leap second would mean decoupling clock time from the Earth’s rotation – from day and night itself

Illustration by Mario Hugo Picture this, arranged along a time line. For all of measurable human history up until the year 1750, nothing happened that mattered. This isn’t to say history was stagnant,

Scary myths and scary data abound about life as a tenure-track faculty at an "R1" university. Scary enough to make you wonder: why would any smart person want to live this life? As a young faculty mem

Matter Monogamy and Human Evolution Titi monkeys are monogamous--a way of life found in just 9 percent of mammal species. “Monogamy is a problem,” said Dieter Lukas of the University of Cambridge in a

Dear Jeff, While it might seem an awful cliche, the fact of the matter is — if you go back to a time long before the commercial Internet existed, and well before you became so rich that you have $250

Jaw-dropper of the day: “Around Saturn”, an ebullient time-lapse video of the ringed planet. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/07/27/_around_saturn_a_time_lapse_video_made_from_cassini_images_of_the_ringed.html

The little rover that could (NASA) The most memorable thing was the tears. They were the result, for the most part, of the tensions of the " Seven Minutes of Terror ." And of hope. And of anticipation

The Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It only takes a quick peek at the TOP500 – the ever-updating list of the world’s top (public) supercomputers – to make you feel pretty good ab

When a single genetic mutation first let ancient Europeans drink milk, it set the stage for a continental upheaval. In the 1970s, archaeologist Peter Bogucki was excavating a Stone Age site in the fer

In 1999, Professor Baba Shiv (currently at Stanford) and his co-author AlexFedorikhin did a simple experiment on 165 grad students.They asked half tomemorize a seven-digit number and the other half to memorize a two-digit number.After completing the memorization task, participants were told the…

John Bunker Séan Alonzo Harris Every fall at Maine’s Common Ground Country Fair, the Lollapalooza of sustainable agriculture, John Bunker sets out a display of eccentric apples. Last September, once a

RT @preshit: The making of the last portrait sitting of Steve Jobs - https://vimeo.com/48245994

Over a pint of beer, the great biologist, polymath and pub-lover J B S Haldane was asked if he would give his life to save his drowning brother. He is supposed to have said: ‘No, but I would to save two brothers, or eight cousins.’ He was referring to one of evolution’s puzzles: why animals…

Back in 2006, I gave a talk at dConstruct called The Joy Of API . It basically involved me geeking out for 45 minutes about how much fun you could have with APIs. This was the era of the mashup—taking

I’m standing at the front of a darkened room full of middle-school girls, telling them about user interface patterns and trying to get them excited about reading Apple’s iOS Human Interface Guidelines