316 Shares Share 314 Reddit Email If you needed another reason to not be a consumer of pornography, here’s one from science: it might literally be rotting your brain. From the Huffington Post : “Our findings indicated that gray matter volume of the right caudate of the striatum is smaller with…

THANK YOU for the screen shot. I was actually already aware that the type on my site is big. I designed it that way. And while I’m grateful for your kind desire to help me, I actually do know how the site looks in a browser with default settings on a desktop computer. I am fortunate enough to own a…

paul peeking 1020 I can honestly say that since May 1st I haven't loaded a single webpage, synced a single client, downloaded a single file, or sent a single email. I also haven't explicitly asked anyone to do those things for me, though I'm aware that some webpages have been loaded, files…

Y vette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman , would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she died. According to the Los Angeles coroner’s report, she lay dead for the better part of a year…

Junior Seau spent 20 years in the NFL. (Denis Poroy/AP file photo) The news should have been a total shock. A great American athlete, a feared and revered defensive superstar of the National Football League who walked off the field for the last time just over two years ago, was dead. He was just 43.…

Electronic Arts was recently named the winner of Consumerist's annual Worst Company in America reader poll, beating out rival Activision and perhaps more notably Bank of America, which it crushed in the final round 64 to 36 percent. We could probably name several companies that deserved the dishonor…

LiSong / Imaginechina / AP Apple CEO Tim Cook Follow @TIMEBusiness Apple is building one of the most stunning financial runs in the history of corporate America, as Tuesday’s blowout showing affirmed. The company says it’s sold over 365 million digital devices over the last five years — 50 million…

A couple weeks ago, a gentlemen named Timothy Collins called into the Vergecast podcast and sent the blogosphere into a tizzy by suggesting how Apple could increase the screen size in a new iPhone by simply elongating the screen to a 16:9 (ish) ratio, while keeping the same resolution (326 dpi).…

Now that you’ve read the stories of some of the wonderful people I’ve met along this blogging journey, I thought I should disclose my own story here as well. I have some new readers now who may not know my story and why I felt a need to start this blog in the first place. In school, I’ve often been…

Nathan Norris, Better! Cities & Towns Just after the close of World War II, the last Great Migration in the United States — the move from the city to the new suburbs — began to emerge, fueled by new roads, low congestion, and modest energy costs. It was a new beginning, a chance to shake off the…

Americans may soon be, if they aren’t already, sick of hearing about the blockbuster film Avatar . The quality of the script is sufficiently thin to justify impatience with extended engagement. And yet, responses to the film are revealing enough to extend the lease on the discussion—not to…

Every now and then, a manager at your company might say something like “We need to work longer” or “Our people need to work longer”. Here’s why I don’t think it is a good idea to say this. Well, first of all, there may really be the need for people to change something about their work, and so the…

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:51 am CST: With a thermos full of coffee on my desk, half a dozen Safari tabs open, and Twitter in the corner, I am ready to watch the liveblogs . 12:21 pm: Tim Cook announces the new iPad! 12:23 pm: Phil Schiller is now talking about it. Overview of features: Retina…

Read books. As often as you can. Mostly classics. Reuters Everywhere you look these days, there's a new "slow" movement. Since 1989, when the activists behind the Slow Food manifesto began calling on us to change the way we eat—arguing that meals that take time to prepare are better for our health,…

Erin Patrice O'Brien for The Wall Street Journal By Kay S. Hymowitz Updated Feb. 19, 2011 12:01 a.m. ET Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage and children. Today, most men in…

Like many science-fiction stories, “The Hunger Games” portrays a future that we're invited to read as a parable for the present. After the existing nations of North America are destroyed by catastrophe, a civilization named Panem rises from the ruins. It's ruled by a vast, wealthy Capitol inspired…

I still remember the first time it happened. I was dropping off my 17-year-old cousin at a friend’s house in the wealthy, white Massachusetts suburb in which I lived and where my father is still a professor. We knocked on the wrong door. Minutes later, I was pulled over by the police. Slight, young…

Paul Sakuma/Associated Press The “retina” display is one of the main selling points of the new iPad. Apps, games and e-books may look great on the new iPad’s high-resolution “retina” display, but it’s unclear whether Web sites will get the same treatment. Pick up a new iPad and load a Web site, and…

Derek Webb, on the CD The House Show talks about community and the gospel as he introduces the song Nobody Loves Me . He talks about the risk that we run as we enter into community with each other… …which we necessarily are. We are called into community together. If you divorce the people of God,…

Avery House Creative Hario’s ceramic coffee dripper and kettle. In Ristretto, Oliver Strand, the curator of the Times Topics coffee page, explores the world of coffee gadgets, coffee beans and why it’s never been easier to get a perfect shot of espresso. As coffee-brewing techniques go, pour over…

The English architect Christopher Wren once quipped that his chosen field “aims for Eternity,” and there’s something appealing about that formula: Unlike the web, which often feels like aiming for next week, architecture is a discipline very much defined by its permanence. A building’s foundation…

The Smithsonian in Washington is showcasing 80 video games from the last few decades played on 20 computer and gaming systems, including Pac-Man. Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times WASHINGTON — On Christmas in 1980 a fifth-grade boy in Flushing, Queens, received his first computer, a Commodore…

Tom Gauld This kind of thing happens all the time now, but three or four years ago it still seemed momentous and thrilling: a sudden argument at a dinner party (something about Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds and iconic mustaches of the ’70s) was quickly put to rest when half the people present picked…

The moment Tim Cook took the stage and announced the new iPad on March 7th in San Francisco, I immediately started brainstorming on my review for the device. There are clear challenges in comparing generational, iterative products like the iPad — especially when the devices themselves look nearly…

The New iPad Review: iPad (3rd generation) Third-generation iPad: What you need to... Get started with your new iPad Accessorize your new iPad How to get the best price selling your... What LTE means for Apple's new iPad Show More The iPad has been a remarkable success story. Apple sold 15 million…

Homeless Hotspots - BuzzFeed The most important thing that happened at SXSW Interactive wasn't an app launch or a keynote presentation. It wasn’t a major acquisition or a surprise takeover. In many ways, it was a controversy that broke out over a questionably brilliant marketing campaign by BBH…

Ars was recently able to conclude that the newly launched iTunes movies encoded in 1080p do, in fact, look better than the same content encoded in 720p, despite the modest increase in file size. That's good news for iTunes customers. But the real question is: how do iTunes 1080p downloads compare to…

I’ve recently discovered Day One , a journal app for iPhone, iPad and MacBook. And because of Day One, I’ve also rediscovered the joys of private writing. One of the things that I lost over the years, as a novelist, was the pleasure of unpublished writing. Now, of course, the joys of being published…

With the days counting down to when shawnblanc.net becomes my full-time gig I have been spending a lot of time thinking about what my new daily schedule will look like. I’m the sort of guy who is always thinking about the future. Not in the noble “always looking ahead” sort of way, but in the “my…

I truly believe, and many others in the company believe, that there will come a day that the tablet market in units is larger than the PC market. Tim Cook Discusses Q1 2012 Results – Earnings Call Transcript – Seeking Alpha Question is when? I began by projecting growth rates of various market…

Recently, while on vacation in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and visiting family, we stayed at my sister’s house. She was kind enough to let us have her place while she found accommodations elsewhere. She moved in to this place herself not too long ago and was proud to point out to us the brand new,…