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How I learned to stop worrying and love React If you asked me what I thought of React one year ago, I would probably say… Where are my templates? What’s that crazy HTML doing in my JavaScript? JSX looks weird! Hurry! Kill it with fire! That was because I didn’t get it. But I swear: React is…

The New Yorker's Maria Konnikova explains the science behind why we need to sleep more, waste less time on the internet, and stop multitasking. michaeljung /Shutterstock You're a busy person. Keeping up with your job, plus your life, has you constantly racing. It doesn't help that when working,…

The Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck The original, and still the best Ok, I have a confession to make. I have spent almost my whole life– 31 years– caring far too much about offending people, worrying if I’m cool enough for them, or asking myself if they are judging me. I can’t take it anymore.…

“God, body and mind, food for the soul When you feeding on hate, you empty, my n!*$a, it shows.” — Rick Ross “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George…

The Environmental Scandal That’s Happening Right Beneath Your Feet Uprising: Winner of the 2013 AAAS Kavli award for online science journalism. BY THE TIME BOB ACKLEY crossed the Harlem River into Manhattan he’d been up for nearly four hours. It was still dark, not yet seven on a Sunday morning: the…

I was going to tackle my procrastination problem last weekend but I never got around to it. By Sunday at 5:48 p.m. I realized I had blown it again. Throughout the week I feel like I barely have enough time to cook, eat, tidy up, write an article and do the odd errand. I lean towards the weekend,…

→ The thing that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom is our incredible ability to communicate. Every element of modern human life owes its existence to our ability to communicate and build on ideas from the past. The development of the Internet has facilitated communication like…

Shutterstock Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I had been living quite a different lifestyle while I was away, this sudden transition to…

Bruichladdich wanted to sell Scotch without resorting to “tartan and bagpipes” clichés. Credit Photograph by Grant Cornett One day in 1989, a man on a bicycle arrived at the gates of a whisky distillery called Bruichladdich. The distillery sits across the road from the North Atlantic Ocean, on a…

Julian Jaynes, a psychologist at Princeton, had little patience for his colleagues, who spent hours in the lab doing “petty, petty humdrum things.” He dismissed their “objective aridity,” “cunning lingo,” and “valiant nonsense.” The field of psychology, he wrote, was little more than “bad poetry…

As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has…

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…

I’ve lost count of the number of people who sent me Julian Baggini’s excellent essay The art of coffee last week (I guess my Instagram feed makes my feelings about coffee pretty clear). It’s a truly great article, going far beyond coffee to the essence of craftsmanship, and the things we value.…

You can download this story as an ebook for your Kindle here, or for other e-readers here. Instructions for transferring this file to your Kindle can be found here. Day One For the hacker group Schadenfreude’s bizarre debut, every cast member and contestant on EGT! (Elderly Got Talent), the…

Mr. Penumbra’s 24‑Hour Bookstore This is my first novel, and it grew from a story posted on this very website into a New York Times Best Seller published in more than twenty countries. It’s a tale of books and technology, cryptography and conspiracy, friendship and love. It begins in a mysterious…

Startups are Creating a New System of the World for IT Monday, May 7, 2012 at 9:15AM It remains that, from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. -- Isaac Newton The practice of IT reminds me a lot of the practice of science before Isaac Newton. Aristotelianism…

Forget Your Past Buzludzha, Bulgaria Meanwhile… in Bulgaria .. Over the years I’ve visited my fair share of abandoned buildings. They’ve always held a very strong attraction for me. Somehow, their silent decaying facades offer the perfect blank canvas for an introverted imagination like mine……

In the reception of Nokia House, the company's hulking steel and glass HQ overlooking the Baltic between Helsinki and Espoo, there is a giant sculpture of a gold chessboard, intriguingly without pieces. Presumably installed long before the company's current travails amidst the choppiest of market…

Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. Is it safe to talk about punctuation again? Eight years ago, Lynne Truss’s best-selling “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” took, in the words of her subtitle, a “Zero Tolerance Approach” to the subject. Although Truss’s focus on errors drew the ire, if not…

#3. "You're Just Jealous Because I Made It and You Didn't!" "I think it's about envy. I think it's about class warfare. When you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on the 99 percent versus one percent -- and those people who have been most successful will be in the one…

Swimmers met John Fairfax and his 22-foot rowboat, the Britannia, in Hollywood, Fla., in 1969. Associated Press He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was also there. He made both crossings in a rowboat because it, too, was there, and because the lure of sea, spray…

Have a question? Need some advice? Ignored by everyone else? Send us your questions via email . The Non-Expert handles all subjects and is updated on Fridays, and is written by a member of The Morning News staff. Question: I need 100 ways to say “I love you” to my girlfriend. We made a bet last…

Swimmers met John Fairfax and his 22-foot rowboat, the Britannia, in Hollywood, Fla., in 1969. Associated Press He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was also there. He made both crossings in a rowboat because it, too, was there, and because the lure of sea, spray…

[Originally published August 11, 2011.] - - - A binary system caused divergent pathways in the area of numerous #efe714 fibrous carbon life forms And while attempting to understand the feeling that humans may call REGRET for it to be logically impossible to attempt to traverse both pathways And be…