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by John Mahoney This is a bucket of chum. Chum is decomposing fish matter that elicits a purely neurological brain stem response in its target consumer: larger fish, like sharks. It signals that they should let go, deploy their nictitating membranes, and chomp down blindly on a morsel of fragrant,…

Space, as Han Solo once described, is the final frontier. While the fuzzy nether regions of the galaxy may seem daunting, we’re fortunate enough to have our resident Runt idiot and astrophysicist, Ken M, explain space in ways we all can understand: And if you liked this post, be sure to check out…

Credit...Tim Bower Like every other Gen Xer, I learned to smoke because a neighborhood girl named Tammy had a grandmother who was dying of cancer and therefore didn’t have time to notice that Tammy was stealing her Benson & Hedges 100s. It was a heavenly time. In the mid-to-late-’80s, non-chain…

55 Savushkina Street, the last known home of the Internet Research Agency.Credit...James Hill for The New York Times The Tech & Design Issue From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life…

Lifehacker has been a go-to source of tech help and life advice since 2005. Our mission is to offer reliable tech help and credible, practical, science-based life advice to help you live better. Our Mission Our Team Newsletter Latest Tech Food Entertainment Health Home & Garden Relationships Deals…

Up and Away Air Bus May 25, 2015 Illustration by Tom Bachtell As Memorial Day approached, Hamptons residents girded themselves for seasonal headaches: traffic jams, guys in tank tops, the Kardashians. For the next few weeks, at least, another irritant will remain: helicopter noise. The East Hampton…

Jon Hamm as Don Draper. Photo: Michael Yarish/AMC Mad Men closed with its hero, adman Don Draper (Jon Hamm), sitting lotus-style on a hilltop in 1970, experiencing bliss, or something like it. Don had proclaimed ten years earlier that love was a lie invented by guys like him to sell nylons and that…

I quit drinking 5 years ago today and I’ve been insufferable ever since. Did you know I quit drinking 5 years ago today? Because I did. You probably already know this because I told you last year that I had quit drinking 4 years ago today. If you forgot, you may want to meditate on friendship.…

Sam Biddle: I wrote about the toxic mythology of silicon valley for GQ after they promised to help me learn how to tie a bow tie http://t.co/JahIORTiYY

This is what advertising does. It takes authentic human experience, moments of genuine emotion or even art, and it turns them into pap. It wrings what is real from them and what is true about them, an

There are a lot of theories floating around about what will happen in Mad Men and to its main character, Don Draper. None of them are likely to be identical to what series creator Matt Weiner has drea

News My Name Is Peter Sciretta And I Once Directed A Feature Film (Watch The Movie Trailer) By May 12, 2015 8:00 am EST My name is Peter Sciretta, you probably know me as the creator and editor of the

Warzel/BuzzFeed At TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley, no one looks at your face. Instead, gazes rest about six inches to a foot lower. Badge height. At Disrupt, the badge — or more importantly, the t

by Benjamin Hart It’s hard to pinpoint the moment when New York and also technology started to feel like such a chore. Maybe it was when I urinated in a slim-fit adult diaper while waiting in line for

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Jia Tolentino: Fuck a dadbod, I've got a blogbod http://t.co/laczmXyudQ http://t.co/a98IhtI6IH

In World of Warcraft, a game that I and a lot of other people somewhat regrettably played, if you type “/played” into the console it will tell you, no judgment, how much time you’ve logged in the game

Last October I headed to Korea with the Parts Unknown production crew. I’m a Korean-American, and it was my first time back since I was four years old, so I was psyched to experience the country as an adult, and with an ambitious production itinerary in hand. Which is to say that this wasn’t a…

The Awl: One Weird Trick To Make The Internet Less Bad. (Feeds hate it!!) http://t.co/ET181D7PWr http://t.co/V6oIlk8rLH

Age 13: when amazing truly happens. There are few life milestones as mentally bananas for a human male as being a seventh-grader. This is true for a number of physiological reasons, but also because it’s often the true beginning of the #SQUAD. Sure, preteens have friends before this age, but at 13,…

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Bill details the engineering choices underlying the design of a beverage can He explains why it is cylindrical, outlines the manufacturing steps needed to created the can, notes why the can narrows near it lid, show close ups of the double-seam that hold the lid on, and details the complex operation…

One cold, windy day last week, a neat snake of people dressed in muted business casual shuffled in double-file outside ABC’s studios at 66th and Columbus, waiting to receive a color-coded wristband that would permit them to audition for Shark Tank . 500 of them will make it through the doors today,…

Credit ILLUSTRATION BY ELLEN SURREY Not long ago, I walked into a friend’s kitchen and found her opening one of those evil, impossible-to-breach plastic blister packages with a can opener. This worked, and struck me as brilliant, but I mention it only to illustrate a characteristic that I admire in…

From someone who still doesn’t entirely know how. I just spent two weeks in Italy, all of which was really quite lovely. I ate much delicious pasta, saw many beautiful sights, and learned the true meaning of public transportation frustration when the driver of the Circumvesuviana train, which goes…

The film, released 25 years ago this week, survived 70-pound costumes, a major studio pulling out at the last moment and rejection at every turn, with most of the industry asking its producers, "Are you guys out of your minds?" In 1988, comic book movies were considered box-office poison. The stink…

In the early 1990s, debates were raging in playgrounds across the land about which was better: the Super Nintendo or the Sega Genesis . I was in Nintendo's corner, defending their legendary 16-bit console to a group of friends who had sworn their allegiance to Sega. I didn't know exactly why it was…

Unless you have a super brain, you’re probably not going to learn a whole new language every time you visit a different country. But with the right tools in your arsenal, you can get by. Here’s how to survive when you don’t understand the native tongue. To bridge the gap, you’ll need to rely on more…

“Allison doesn’t just find us actors; she finds us people we want to work with the rest of our lives,” the director Judd Apatow said. Credit Photograph by Dolly Faibyshev The first scene of “Other Space,” a new sci-fi sitcom by Paul Feig, which streams on Yahoo on April 14th, begins with one of the…

The third biggest loser in this sad saga of Top Gear is the wider car media, and the business that surrounds it. Of course the first is the vast fan base that has followed the show for many years. The second, assuming the brand struggles to survive, is the team who work on it - and I can’t imagine…

Will this be the view from someone’s breakfast nook? Photo: null/Arclight/Alamy If you’ve sat in an airplane’s window seat, you know what the world looks like from a mile up. It’s that point during takeoff and landing when you can pick out an individual car beetling along a highway; when, on a clear…

My first post at The League was about my friend Bob Wise, and ways of seeing things that I’ve learned from him . It’s not going to far to say that a big reason that Mon Tiki exists is because I became friends with Bob Wise. That was was about 15 years ago, which means I’m about the age now that Bob…