Currency March 4, 2014 I remember listening to music on my iPhone one morning in the salty, rust-tinged gym at the Dolphin Club, one of the oldest swimming and boating clubs in San Francisco. An elderly man in a Speedo tapped me on the shoulder. “We don’t do that here,” he said, pointing to my…

Olaf Blecker "Is that Allen Lim?" Cycling fans crowd around the man wearing the aviator glasses and a VIP lanyard. It's day five of the 600-mile 2013 USA Pro Challenge in the Colorado Rockies, one of

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For a child growing up in the late 90s, the Lego X-Wing was an opportunity to own a part of the Star Wars Universe. The star-fighter itself is a symbol of freedom and adventure, whilst the Lego interlocking brick system offers the ability to create and explore. It has long been my dream to own one…

A letter from Grantland editor-in-chief Bill Simmons on the origins of this story and how it came to be published can be read here. A guest editorial from Christina Kahrl detailing the problems with this piece as they relate to transgender issues can be found here. Strange stories can find you at…

“How could you guys run that?” We started hearing that question on Friday afternoon, West Coast time, right as everyone was leaving our Los Angeles office to start the weekend. We kept hearing that question on Friday night, and all day Saturday, and Sunday, too. We heard it repeatedly on Twitter and…

When you’re a writer, you want something you create to have a long life, to be something that readers will remember and revisit for years to come. If such was Caleb Hannan’s wish, it’s been granted, because his essay on “Dr. V and the magical putter” figures to be a permanent exhibit of what not to…

One evening, some 40 years ago, I got lost in time. I was at a performance of Schubert’s String Quintet in C major. During the second movement I had the unnerving feeling that time was literally grinding to a halt. The sensation was powerful, visceral, overwhelming. It was a life-changing moment,…

London, May 2009. Read the Dutch version here. A small Read the French version here. experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the financial center of Europe, for more than forty years. Their…

Abo testen Danke, dass Sie ZEIT ONLINE nutzen. Melden Sie sich jetzt mit Ihrem bestehenden Account an oder testen Sie unser digitales Abo mit Zugang zu allen Artikeln. Abo testen Anmelden Erscheinungsbild Genmutation: Leben ohne Schmerz … aber mit vielen Wunden Sie spüren keinen Knochenbruch, Wunden…

It was Griffin Wilson who proposed the theory of de-evolution. He sat two rows behind me in Organic Chem, the very definition of an evil genius. He was the first to take the Great Leap Backward. Everybody knows because Tricia Gedding was in the nurse's office with him. She was in the other cot,…

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Gaming How an emulator-fueled robot reprogrammed Super Mario World on the fly Tool-assisted speedrun gets arbitrary code running on unmodified SNES hardware. Kyle Orland – Jan 14, 2014 11:27 am | 52 Don't worry, Yoshi. That's just the fabric of reality reprogramming itself before our eyes. Credit:…

Annals of Technology January 10, 2014 In early 2005, Josh Demmitt arrived at a federal prison camp, in Sheridan, Oregon, to serve a thirty-month sentence for starting a fire outside an animal-testing facility at Brigham Young University. The nineteen-year-old received a warm welcome from his fellow…

When a tattoo marks a personal transformation, or the reclaiming of an abused body, the tattoo artist becomes a healer

You can provide your child with a perfect diet, but if you don’t do this, he or she will still be prone to old-fashioned illnesses. Photo by Dmitry Naumov/Thinkstock I am the ’70s child of a health nut. I wasn’t vaccinated. I was brought up on an incredibly healthy diet: no sugar till I was 1,…

Am Tag, als sich Celestine Kpakou fertig macht, um in ihr altes Leben zurückzureisen, wirft sie einen schmuddeligen Koffer auf ihr Bett. Sieben Jahre hat sie auf diesen Tag gewartet, hat ihn herbeigefleht in ihren nächtlichen Gebeten, wenn sie wach lag, oder wenn sie Hunger hatte oder Sehnsucht nach…

I make no apologies now for what I am about to tell you. This is not one of my normal blogs filled with jokes, idiocy, and me being a tool. You may have as hard a time reading it as I did writing it… I worked within the mental health world for 7 years, between the ages of 20 to 27. I enjoyed the job…

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1 “Bigger Than Picasso” Paul van Hoeydonck poses with a replica of Fallen Astronaut in front of the Empire State Building in New York in 1971. Courtesy Paul van Hoeydonck/Waddell Gallery* One crisp March morning in 1969, artist Paul van Hoeydonck was visiting his Manhattan gallery when he stumbled…

After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? 17 min read· Nov 20, 2013 -- A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no one had ever spoken of. I…

An anecdote: I wanted to wear Google Glass during the birth of our second child. My wife was extremely unreceptive to this idea when I suggested it. Angry, even. But as we got a bit closer to the date

Ein Schutzgebiet der Nichteinmischung" nannte William S. Burroughs 1955 in seinem einflussreichen Aufsatz International Zone die marokkanische Stadt Tanger. Schon 1956 änderte sich der spezielle Status der Stadt, und die Beat-Poeten, die von der Atmosphäre der Selbstverwaltung und Freiheit in der…

Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In 2014, people will finally notice. Sure, blogs still exist, many of them are excellent, and they will go on existing and being excellent for many years to come. But the function of the blog, the nebulous informational task we all agreed the blog was…

Yesterday, we learned that the NSA is using Google cookies—the same cookies used for advertisements and search preferences—to track users for surveillance purposes. These Google cookies—known as “PREF” cookies—last two years and can uniquely identify you. Sniffing one off the Internet as it goes…

Säufer, Penner, Assis Matthias liebte Bert. Und Bert mochte den Roten Baron. Drei Walzen, Wahrscheinlichkeit gewordene Mechanik, durchschaubar und ehrlich. Man konnte den Walzen zusehen. Keine Tricks. Es war beherrschbar. Halb elf am Abend. Es konnte losgehen. Ein halber Euro pro Spiel. Ein Dreier –…

Drei Ampeln, zweimal rechts, einmal links. Früher fuhr die Tochter oft mit dem Fahrrad, das schafft sie heute nicht mehr. Sie nimmt das Auto. Sie ist jetzt 63 Jahre alt. Um 17 Uhr ist sie da, jeden Tag. Du hast mich ins Heim gesteckt. Mutter, das ist dein Zuhause. Ich bin im Heim. Mutter! Du hast…

The first item I see in Amazon's Swansea warehouse is a package of dog nappies. The second is a massive pink plastic dildo. The warehouse is 800,000 square feet, or, in what is Amazon's standard unit of measurement, the size of 11 football pitches (its Dunfermline warehouse, the UK's largest, is 14…

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“Oh no!” said the email that went round the EFF office on Friday. Could it be true that the Beastie Boys had unleashed the legal hounds to shut down a parody ad that uses the group's classic misogynistic ditty, “Girls”? Surely not. As remix pioneers, the Beastie Boys are the veterans of many legal…

Ende August, Basler Viaduktstrasse: Peter York* hat sich zum fünften Hochzeitstag mit seiner Frau zum Essen verabredet und fährt mit seinem Velo Richtung Markthalle. Als er eine Polizeikontrolle erblickt, macht er kehrt: sein Velo (ein so genanntes Fixie) hat keine Bremsen. Er will eine Busse…

On June 13th, 2013, the AeroVelo Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter captured the long standing AHS Sikorsky Prize with a flight lasting 64.1 seconds and reaching an altitude of 3.3 metres. Visit www.aerovelo.com for more details. The competition was initially opened in 1980, and over the course of the…