“ A horrible decree… .” “Most ruthless statement… .” “A terrible theological theory… .” “An illegitimate inference of logic… .” These and other similar epithets have been used frequently to articulate displeasure and revulsion at the Reformed doctrine of double predestination. Particularly abhorrent…

Internals and performance The smaller iPad Pro uses an Apple A9X SoC, an amped up version of the Apple A9 introduced in the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. It’s also very similar to the A9X that shipped in the big iPad Pro, with a couple of key differences. The charts below focus primarily on iPad-vs-iPad…

Apple Of all the conventions of traditional computers that iPhones and iPads flout, perhaps the biggest is the concept of saving documents to files and folders. So much of the personality of the Mac is defined by the Finder, an app devoted entirely to organizing the files and folders on your various…

Full speed ahead "We believe that iPad is the perfect expression of the future of personal computing." So said Tim Cook at the introduction of the new iPad Pro 9.7 last week. It’s exactly the kind of phrase you expect from Cook’s Apple: spoken humbly, but revealing a huge ambition. It mixes a thing…

“So what do your friends think of your engagement?” This is a question my husband, Ted, and I ask often as we mentor engaged couples, while sitting on the back porch of our Georgia home. It may seem trivial, but we’ve found that this question can be very telling of the overall health of the couple’s…

Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors are going for a special number. Photograph by Chris Covatta/NBAE via Getty "I am aware of the Warriors’ push for seventy-three wins," Ken Ono, a professor of mathematics at Emory University and the author of “The Web of Modularity: Arithmetic of the…

Flickr/西文 Simon In most marriages, levels of satisfaction drop dramatically within the first few years together. But among couples who not only endure, but live happily together for years and years, the spirit of kindness and generosity guides them forward. Every day in June, the most popular…

Having a choice is fundamentally a good thing. Yes, give someone too many options and they may collapse under the strain of the Tyranny of Choice, but One Size never really did Fit All. Better to have a few options to choose from. As a laptop user I’ve always found myself a bit outside the…

This is Part 2. You won’t get Part 2 if you haven’t read Part 1 yet. ___________ PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview .) ___________ pro-cras-ti-na-tion |prəˌkrastəˈnāSHən, prō-| noun the action of ruining your own life for no…

An iceberg floats through the water on July 21, 2013, in Ilulissat, Greenland. If James Hansen is correct, get ready for a lot more of these. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Last summer, James Hansen—the pioneer of modern climate science— pieced together a research-based revelation : a little-known feedback…

https://unsplash.com/photos/ASKeuOZqhYU 9 Habits That Change Boys Into Men Average male income in America has plummeted, by some economists measurements, by 28 percent since 1969. And things aren’t looking good for men in the future. The demise of our culture will result from the demise of its men…

In writing and thinking on the dating market as it currently is, I’ve thought of the comparison to the business market and the buying and selling of goods and answered this post with the question “What Is Keeping You from Asking Her Out?” ( H/T Unger , I highly recommend his posts there) by…

The final score said everything. There’s nothing “misleading” about 59-0. There’s no gloss that will make 59-0 presentable, no spin that will explain why 59-0 isn’t as bad as it looks. 59-0 defies context. 59-0 is what it is. For Texas A&M, last year’s 59-0 beatdown at the hands of Alabama was rock…

I am a habitual nap-taker. I take one almost every day and have for years. I used to feel a little guilty about it—like I was slacking off or something. Then Sam Moore, my predecessor at Thomas Nelson, admitted to me he too was a napper. “Every day after lunch, I lie down on the sofa in my office,”…

In order to master your life, you must master your week. In order to master your week, you must first master your day. It sounds a bit like something Yoda would say, I’ll give you that. But these are words to live by, trust me on this. If I was asked to boil down all of the success I encounter in my…

Mindy Kaling's secret? You have to earn that bulletproof feeling. In an excerpt from her new book, Why Not Me? , she explains. One evening last year, I was onstage at a Q&A in Manhattan hosted by a magazine to discuss my life and career. This was one of those fancy events where ticket prices are…

Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top brass. Gundotra, described by colleagues we spoke with as…

Where Barry Diller’s Aereo failed, Apple is hoping to succeed. The Cupertino, Calif., tech firm is making broadcast networks the centerpiece of its cable-killer TV app — and talks with all four networks are rapidly gaining momentum, The Post has learned. “The platform is ready and it rocks,” said…

At 8:23 AM local time on Tuesday morning, in Los Angeles, there he was: Zane Lowe, the British DJ Apple hired so mysteriously from BBC 1 earlier this year, on the ones and twos. “Check. Test. Test-test-test-test-37 minutes-test. How’s that?” Underneath his voice, which he may or may not have known…

Shyness vs. Introversion, Surviving Playdates, Sharing Ideas, and More: Readers Ask Susan Cain By Have a question for our Chief Revolutionary? Email us via the Contact Susan page. You can also ask via Twitter with the hashtag #AskSusanCain . Susan answered today’s first question, about the…

Welcome to The Social Introvert, where we’ll talk about relationships of all kinds—love, friendship, family, and professional. Some of you might know me from my books The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World and Introverts in Love: The Quiet Way to Happily Ever After . Or maybe…

Less is more. That's the advice Nintendo's Takashi Tezuka, who's worked on dozens of Super Mario games since 1985's Super Mario Bros. , offered when I asked him what makes a good Mario level. "In Mario games, each one has 60 to 80 courses, and each course needs to have its own unique defining…

A few months ago I started getting headaches, and they were weird. If a bad hangover headache feels splitting, I’d describe these headaches as searing, as if someone had hit me over the head with a red hot rod of steel sending electric bolts of pain across my skull. By the time I finally went to a…

Jurassic World is delighting audiences, smashing box office records, and making people excited about dinosaurs again. But did you notice the movie is also sort of terrible? If the new installment of Jurassic Park left you with questions, our patented Spoiler FAQ has the answers you didn’t even know…

In order to get an opinion from a different perspective, I asked my wife Erin to share some of her quick thoughts about Apple Watch. This isher review, but you can also read my review . My Apple Watch face When I was told that an Apple Watch had been bought for me, my first reaction wassurprise,…

In order to get an opinion from a different perspective, I’ve also asked my wife Erin to share some of her thoughts about Apple Watch. This is my review, butyou can also read her review . I’ve had my Apple Watch, a 42mm Space Gray Aluminum Case with Black Sport Band ,for about a week now. (Could…

There’s less than a week until Tim Cook once again plays ringmaster to a coterie of executives who are going to show us what Apple has in store for the year to come. As ever, there’s plenty of prognostication, tea-leaf reading, and crystal-ball gazing1 going around about what Apple might unveil at…

Last Updated on May 26th, 2015 What follows below is an edited synopsis DarthLightlyBruise did based on rumors from this site. I think it is a fun read and worth sharing. I did a slight edit on a few things to best reflect the scenes which were shot last summer at Pinewood Studios. This lays out the…

In the “Mad Men” finale, Don Draper finally proved himself as the show’s protagonist, making his place at center stage seem not just inevitable and logical but also deeply original. Courtesy AMC The last time I wrote a column about “Mad Men” was midway through Season 4, and I was worried that the…

Jon Hamm Mad MenSeason 7 Mad MenSeason 7 "Person To Person" A Mad MenSeason 7 "Person To Person" A A "Person To Person" Episode 14 In “ Severance ,” the first episode of Mad Men ’s final half-season, Ted Chaough pitches a line to Don: “There are three women in every man’s life.” In tonight’s finale,…

A week with the new thing It is on my wrist. Do I wish it to be? Not really. Did I crave it? No. Well, maybe a little. I am human. And it is new. And it contains media. And itself may be new media. And it is good to know about these things. So it is on my wrist. This thing, black like crude oil upon…

There’s a reason we don’t wear the same clothes two days in a row, try to avoid the temptations of McDonald’s and Ben & Jerry’s, keep a regular hair appointment and make it to the gym as often as possible. It’s the same reason we’d consider buying an Apple Watch: We like to look our best. After over…

Or, can books save us from what digital does to our brains? Last year, I read four books. The reasons for that low number are, I guess, the same as your reasons for reading fewer books than you think you should have read last year: I’ve been finding it harder and harder to concentrate on words,…

Mad MenSeason 7 Mad MenSeason 7 "The Milk And Honey Route" A Mad MenSeason 7 "The Milk And Honey Route" A A "The Milk And Honey Route" Episode 13 A cop walks up to the car window and asks Don for identification. “You knew we’d catch up with you eventually,” he says, shining a flashlight on Don’s…

A lot of people have compared the first generation of Apple Watch to the first generation of the iPhone and rightly so: Apple Watch has a (likely intentionally) constrained feature set, bulky-ish hardware, critics that say the exact same thing has existed on other platforms for a long time… But like…

“So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.” Photograph by Pari Dukovic 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…