The upgraded Apple store in London features trees in the “Genius Grove” and has the goal of being a space for people to just hang out in.Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images S teve Jobs wanted customers to understand the Apple store “with one sweep of the eye,” as if gods standing on Mount Olympus.…

There is a stretch of road that runs through the Adirondack national park, just a few miles of houses and barns and truck stops and trees, that makes up Woodgate, New York. But just off from this road is a rough track that leads down to a lake, and a beach, and a cluster of old buildings. “And…

Brooklyn's bus network needs a 21st-century makeover. Here's what it might look like. Alon Levy/Eric Goldwyn Perspective A Fantasy Map for Brooklyn’s Buses That’s Grounded in Reality We redesigned Brooklyn’s struggling bus network based on evidence from other cities about how to boost ridership.…

Friend, have you heard the good news? Bread is back. After a 20-year period of privileged carb-fearing in America, our hunger for hearty artisan bread has returned in a way that we haven’t experienced since the ’90s . It’s once again romantic — healthful even — to eat preservative-free, crusty,…

It was still dark outside when Amanda woke up to the sound of her alarm, got out of bed and decided to kill herself. She wasn’t going to do it then, not at 5:30 in the morning on a Friday. She told herself she would do it sometime after work. Amanda showered. She put on khakis and a sweater. She fed…

Mark Gardiner was a former VP of marketing and an advertising consultant before taking a job as a crew member at a Trader Joe’s store in Kansas City six years ago. Despite being a bit overqualified, he had an agenda: a personal mission to uncover the secrets behind the grocery chain’s huge success.…

Connection and community define who we are. We are the nation's largest luxury media company offering leading brands access to the most affluent audiences. Learn More Reaching more than 13 million consumers through print, Modern Luxury’s highly-prominent 85+ brands across 22 markets offer numerous…

The sun hadn’t yet risen over Gurtar Sandhu’s 7-Eleven store near downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 10 when four plainclothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swarmed inside. The place was busy; a lot of Sandhu’s customers are day laborers and other working people who start early. As…

Posted: October 30, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Books increasingly don’t have covers. Most still do, but a growing percentage of published books appear on the screens of Kindles and tablets rather than bound paper, and this is even more true for other forms of print media, as…

Will Leitch’s Games column runs weekly. Email him at will.leitch@nymag.com . Barstool Sports fans. Photo: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images I never saw Barstool Sports coming. I probably should have. I am the guy who founded Deadspin, after all, and during the years I actively ran the site — now more than…

Skip to contentSkip to site index “I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.” Leer en español 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 SAN FRANCISCO — The people who are closest to a thing are often the most wary of it. Technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don’t want their own children…

From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare, shipwrecks and syphilis combined. It was an ugly, smelly death, too, beginning with rattling teeth and ending with a body so rotted out from the inside that its victims could literally be startled to death…

Gregory Reid Mary Hamm was in pain, though it was hard to tell. She bustled around the Starbucks, pouring drinks, restocking pastries, and greeting customers with an unshakable gaze perfected during 25 years of working in hospitality. Her smile said, How can I help you? Her eyes said, I know you’re…

February 28, 2018 12-minute read For the past four years, I've worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present. Well, I guess it's a little more complicated than that. The first two years Two years in, I loved Google. When…

It’s difficult to believe now, but there was a time when the internet was nowhere instead of everywhere. Before the social internet had mapped so completely onto our social lives that attempting to separate the two or call life away from the internet “real” became a ridiculous endeavor, online was…

Professor Laurie Santos didn’t set out to create the most popular course in the history of Yale University and the most talked-about college course in America. She just wanted her students to be happy. And they certainly look happy as they file into a church — a literal church, Battell Chapel,…

This article is long and will make you think. I recommend saving it to pocket and reading it in a comfy chair with a cup of earl grey tea. How do you lose weight? If we were to plug that question into Google, we’d be barraged by millions of pages explaining tactics for weight loss. Foods to eat,…

© James Ferguson An Uber car normally arrives in five minutes but I’ve already been waiting 10 for the company’s chief executive, Travis Kalanick. One of the joys of the driver-hailing app is watching the little car icon inch around its onscreen map towards your location, counting down the minutes.…

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A year ago, I hosted a small conclave of fellow (early) explorers of the post-html Internet. And while we are not of the SnapChat generation, most of us grew up connected. There were some who helped build the gear that runs the post-1999 Internet, and some who built the space ships. A…

At Friends Seminary, an elite private school in Manhattan, an awkward parody of a Nazi salute opened a proxy battle in a larger war over values. C a n G o o d T e a c h i n g B e T a u g h t ? A r i z o n a L a w m a k e r s C u t E d u c a t i o n B u d g e t s . T h e n T e a c h e r s G o t A n g…

New York magazine’s Grub Street recently released its list of The Absolute Best Wine Shops in New York, with Chambers Street Wines deservedly at the top. It’s not easy to be the best wine store in New York. The city has some of the best wine stores in the world. So how does Chambers Street Wines…

A letter carrier in Atlanta makes a delivery. David Goldman/AP Man of Letters Stephen Meyers July 24, 2018 What I learned about America, and myself, working as a mail carrier. My fourth day delivering mail for the U.S. Postal Service, it snowed-one of those heavy, wet, spring-in-Colorado snows that…

For the past ten years, carbohydrates have been labeled as public health enemy number one by many popular diet books, websites, and health gurus. They have been thoroughly excoriated as almost single-handedly causing the obesity epidemic in the West. This actually isn’t the first time carbs have had…

Top row: escargots, sardines, and fava beans (Crete); naan in salty yak-milk tea (Afghanistan); fried geranium leaves (Crete); boiled crab (Malaysia); raw beetroot and oranges (Crete); chapati, yak butter, and rock salt (Pakistan). Middle row: dried-apricot soup (Pakistan); boiled plantains…

The Nuance Turns out those bubbles may be trouble Markham Heid Aug 2, 2018 · 4 min read Photo by Brittany Greeson/The Washington Post via Getty Every week, the Nuance will go beyond the basics, offering a deep and researched look at the latest science and expert insights on a buzzed-about health…

As a Japanese, I grew up watching anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion , which depicts a future in which machines and humans merge into cyborg ecstasy. Such programs caused many of us kids to become giddy with dreams of becoming bionic superheroes. Robots have always been part of the Japanese…

T he letters arrived from the San Diego County medical examiner’s office, informing clinicians that one of their patients had died from a prescription drug overdose. These letters appear to have had an impact — prescriptions of addictive painkillers dropped. In a small, randomized trial, researchers…

Featured Stories Coffee, terror, and the push toward caffeinism Taylor Mitchell Brown May 19, 2018 · 7 min read Credit: stephenallen75/iStock/Getty Psst... there’s an audio version of this story. Upgrade to listen Y ou’ve just had your fifth double espresso. Things are getting weird: you can’t…

On a bright, cloudless early-August day in Silicon Valley, Serena Williams opens the back door of the Spanish-style home she shares with her husband, tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian , and walks down a flower-lined path to her office. Lemon trees bloom near the entrance to the backyard tennis court;…

Credit... Eleni Kalorkoti Skip to contentSkip to site index Opinion Motherhood in the Age of Fear Women are being harassed and even arrested for making perfectly rational parenting decisions. Credit... Eleni Kalorkoti Ms. Brooks is a writer. Leer en español CHICAGO — I was on my way home from…

A growing chorus, including the Trump administration, is calling for a rethinking of after-the-fact drug discounts that some say contribute to rising prices. Credit... Elise Amendola/Associated Press An increasingly popular culprit in the debate over high drug prices is the pharmaceutical rebate,…

The American Dream Sitemap Recent site activity The American Dream edited by Iain Cheyne Home created by Iain Cheyne View All The American Dream PART ONE An epiphany was had this morning as I perused SA, sipping Code Red and toying with the notion of stepping outside for my third cigarette in an…

Some companies use humans to train AI systems; others secretly depend on them while claiming to have scalable AI tech.Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and…

Bryce Covert | Longreads | June 2018 | 10 minutes (2,546 words) He was standing on the median of a busy road one morning in the dead of a Massachusetts winter. With bare hands, he clutched a sign asking for money. I was a freshman in college driving to CVS, warm in my car. I grew up in a rural beach…

When I was in college, my high school best friend and I had a terrible falling-out. It was entirely because of Facebook. “I think Allison got engaged?” our mutual friend Kaitlin texted me one day. “I think I saw it on Facebook?” I denied that it could possibly be true. Surely Allison would have told…

There are more glamorous things to be, in Hollywood, than an independent distribution company. For instance, an actress. Or a director. Or a screenwriter. Key grip. Maybe even that guy with a two-way radio who keeps you from walking through a movie set. Film-distribution companies tend to be…

At the beating heart of Amazon’s unstoppable ecommerce expansion is a very basic promise: jobs. When a Fulfillment Center opens, the expectation is that anywhere from 1,000 to 2,200 positions will become available overnight, each providing 40 hours of work per week at a minimum. In reality, the…

Let me tell you the story of two investors, neither of whom knew each other, but whose paths crossed in an interesting way. Grace Groner was orphaned at age 12. She never married. She never had kids. She never drove a car. She lived most of her life alone in a one-bedroom house and worked her whole…

Credit... Kenji Aoki for The New York Times On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 times, gaining new viewers at a rate of about 50,000 per month, fairly…