The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food Credit... Grant Cornett for The New York Times On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headqua

The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google’s NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity. Normal height, slender build; her e

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Opinion Relax! You’ll Be More Productive Editors’ note: We’re resurfacing this story from the archives because who doesn’t want to be more productive? THINK for a moment about your typical workday. Do

This Life Teaching Respect to the Faithful Steve Jasgur, right, of Joe Cornell Entertainment in suburban Detroit. Credit... Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times ALIA RAMER, a mother of three fro

At the end of a long trip last week, I took a taxi from a BART mass transit station in San Francisco ’s East Bay back to my house a few miles away. As the law requires, I could only choose the first cab in line at the taxi stand, which was filthy. The driver begrudgingly popped the trunk, which was…

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Not long ago, Square CEO Jack Dorsey challenged his team to create a solution for accepting payments at Starbucks, which the mobile-payments company had partnered with in August . When an engineer worked out a solution (using QR codes within the Square Wallet app that could tap into Starbucks’…

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In 2005, fewer than 2,000 trips to hospital emergency departments involved energy drinks. By 2011, that number was over 20,000. If energy drinks are safe, why are they sending us to the hospital? Guar

Comparison-shopping for new electronics can be fun and addictive. With a bit of patience, some luck, and an eye for good deals, you can find everything from TV sets to hard drives at a significant dis

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Beast had a birthday last week. The First Dog of social networking — live-in companion to Mark Zuckerberg and his bride, Priscilla Chan — turned two. The proud owners baked a cake for the Hungarian sh

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This article was taken from the August 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by s

On a cold day in late January, Paul LaRosa , an author and CBS producer, and his wife, Susan, were shopping for cheese at the Park Slope/Gowanus Indoor Winter Farmer’s Market at Third Avenue and Third

I’m walking through the dark woods with three strangers. They’re all carrying knives. A sliver of white moon hangs between the black, bare tree limbs. My dim headlamp barely illuminates the mossy trail. The man in front of me walks without a light, finding the path with his feet. The only noise is…

If you spend a fair amount of time among privileged dot-com types, you’ll probably be familiar with Uber , a kind of luxury car service for the smartphone era. The idea is that you pull out your iPhone, punch a couple of buttons, and in a few minutes a swanky black car pulls up to drive you to your…

Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps,

Modern ketchup has its roots in—you guessed it—Chinese fish sauce Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Fast food is America’s signature export, and one of its most pervasive: Every day another few

When your Jeep spins lazily off the mountain road and slams backward into a snowbank, you don’t worry immediately about the cold. Your first thought is that you’ve just dented your bumper. Your second is that you’ve failed to bring a shovel. Your third is that you’ll be late for dinner. Friends are…

You’ve just had dinner at one of the best restaurants in the country, the kind of place where the chef talks about his passion for perfection, obsession with detail and demand for the best, freshest ingredients. You know that there is probably one cook in the kitchen for every couple in the dining…

The first Randroid I ever knew used to sleep with my mom. His name was Mike. I was 16 at the time. He was 25. My mom had a thing for younger guys — especially ones who, regardless of political persuasion, always had plenty of drugs. Ayn Rand also had a taste for younger guys. Most famously her…

T he story of Lost makes no sense. And by that I don’t mean the story on the show — though this is the point where you can feel free to insert jokes about the numbers, the outrigger shootout, or the r

Enlarge / The 21.5-inch 2012 iMac. Andrew Cunningham Specs at a glance: 21.5-inch 2012 iMac Screen 1920x1080 21.5" IPS display (102 ppi) OS Mac OS X 10.8.2 CPU 2.7GHz Intel Core i5-3330s (Turbo Boost

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From the Magazine How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body Members of the Broadway cast of “Godspell” do their flexible best. From left: Uzo Aduba (doing the wheel), George Salazar (extended-hand-to-big-toe pose)

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