A Conversation With Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday. Listen · 7:39 min Andy Weir, author of the sci-fi book “Project Hail Mary,” on the set of the movie adaptation, which he produced and which opens…

The Apollo space missions, and the 20+ movies that immortalized them, featured daredevil former military test pilots heading into the unknown and returning as heroes. These brave souls forged new frontiers for nation-states and planted the right flag for posterity. But we live in different times. As…

Contract law is (for me) the most exciting and satisfying area of law. (Constitutional law and criminal law and media law are all very interesting in how they regulate real life activity, but only contract law is exhilarating. I once read Patrick Atiyah’s extraordinary Introduction to the Law of…

On Friday night, Elon Musk’s team gained access to the Department of Treasury’s payments system, which processes the federal spending that makes up more than a fifth of the U.S. economy. Social Security, Medicare, agricultural supports, the National Parks—a large majority of government spending…

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Calm down, don’t panic! Enough of the Dad’s Army references. I haven’t joined a doomsday cult (unlikely) or become an obsessive ‘prepper’ (yet). However, I do think it’s worth paying attention to a fe

U.S. World Business Arts Lifestyle Opinion Audio Games Cooking Wirecutter The Athletic In a joint interview Monday morning, Matthew Macfadyen and Nicholas Braun reflected on their characters’ bond and

To listen to this profile, click the play button below: I. By now, nearing 9 a.m. at Apple Park, he’s long since gotten up and absorbed himself in the morning rituals of the modern CEO: email and exer

You may recall the hoo-hah the other week about Marcus Rashford and a Spectator story. Rashford tweeted that the Spectator were preparing to run a story about him but strangely the story then never ap

© Anaïck Lejart This article was originally published on 21 July 2019. You turn the pages of yellowing student newspapers from 30 years ago, and there they are, recognisably the same faces that domina

And it came to pass, in the land of Britain, that the High Priestess went unto the people and said, Behold, I bring ye tidings of great joy. For on the eighth day of the sixth month there shall be a g

I’m a reporter first, and a writer second, which means I often find myself writing in odd places. Not just geographically unusual, though there’s that, too. I write everywhere, with whatever technolog

“The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims.[…] The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental threat to our

J ust as he reaches the end of his inspection, the environmental health officer spots the meat pies. A stack of them have tumbled on to a shelf on the floor of the storeroom, not in the chiller. A fli

One of the tricky things about strategy is that good strategies end up seeming inevitable, and that makes them difficult to analyze. After the fact, we have trouble distinguishing cause from effect, o

Steve Peers Today’s speech by Prime Minister Theresa May gave a number of indications as to the government’s intentions as regards implementing Brexit. Overall, while the speech contained some welcome

Footsteps Pointing the way at the intersection of Tooting High Street and Mitcham Road in Tooting.Credit...Andy Haslam for The New York Times Catch the red double-decker bus on Buckingham Palace Road

Peggle is a casual game developed by Popcap. Originally released in 2007, the game is memorable because of it’s absolutely over the top level finishing sequence. In an explosion of rainbows, fireworks

One of the most striking features of the early Trump administration has been its political uses of lying. The big weekend story was the obviously false claim of Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sean Sp

Pink-Collar Work Anderson Akly working as a nurse in 2013. The vast majority of nurses are female, though men earn more than women.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times It hasn’t been a great tim

Charlie Brooker is 45 minutes late for our phone interview, and I’m starting to feel like a desperate adolescent. Then again, fans of Black Mirror, Brooker’s smart, Twilight Zone-esque TV series, have

When a sleepy Marc Dubois walked into the cockpit of his own aeroplane, he was confronted with a scene of confusion. The plane was shaking so violently that it was hard to read the instruments. An ala

Sonja Sidoroff The woman selling me the railway ticket at a small Welsh station was in no hurry. She was having a public discussion with the worker next to her. He said: ‘You can’t buy girls pink toys

Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. The ideology that dominates our lives has, for most of us, no name. Mention it in conversation and you’ll be rewarded with a shr

At first blush, it appears to be an utterly unexceptional spiral-bound notebook. Manufactured in the U.S. by the National Blank Book Company of Holyoke, Massachusetts, it’s got a light green cover and

9 min read · Mar 27, 2016 -- I’m disappointed about Instagram’s most recent announcement . They’ll be shifting their photo feed from a chronological list to an algorithmically driven one, ordered base

What makes a product great? I struggle with this question because being great is not just being better than good. Greatness is to goodness as wisdom is to smarts. Just like getting smarter and smarter

Wunderkind. Jerk. Innovator. Tyrant. (All of the above.) Even now, almost four years after his death, it’s hard to read a story about Steve Jobs that doesn’t rely on these kinds of generic labels to e

I. Launch Day In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has a bench-pressing bulk that

Stacey Thomas with her family in their one-room-home at England’s Lane Hostel in Camden, north London.Photograph: David Levene T o estate agents, England’s Lane, tucked away in a corner of Hampstead, is one of London’s most sought-after villages. Along its tree-lined length stretches a charming row…

The Vons grocery store two miles from my home in Los Angeles, California sells 12 cans of Coca-Cola for $6.59 — 54 cents each. The tool chain that created this simple product is incomprehensibly complex. Each can originated in a small town of 4,000 people on the Murray River in Western Australia…

Good profile by Mat Honan on Stewart Butterfield and Slack.  ★

On Wednesday, I wrapped up the class I’ve been teaching all semester: “The Great Recession: Causes and Consequences.” ( Slides for the lectures are available via my blog .) And while teaching the course was fun, I found myself turning at the end to an agonizing question: Why, at the moment it was…

Image caption David Jason, better known as Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses, voiced Danger Mouse Image caption Count Duckula, a spin-off from Danger Mouse, ran for 65 episodes from 1988 Image caption David Jason also voiced the BFG, which was based on Roald Dahl's much-loved children's book Image…

The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is one of the best places in Silicon Valley to spot a…

Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian’s editor. A colleague says, “His physical appearance doesn’t tell you how tough he is.” Credit Photograph by James Day At eight-thirty on the morning of June 21st, Alan Rusbridger, the unflappable editor of the Guardian , Britain’s liberal daily, was in his office,…