Most of us search Google the same way we always have: type a few words, scroll, click something that looks close enough, and hope. For a while, that worked. Google handed us a list of links and let us take it from there. What’s happening now is something different. A 2024 study by SparkToro found…

The video’s opening shot shows a man hiding under a bed snipping in a hole in someone’s sock. Seconds later, the same man uses a saw to shorten a table leg so that it wobbles during breakfast. “My job is to make things shitty,” the man explains. “The official title is enshittificator. What I do is I…

Illustration by Alexander Naughton Have you ever noticed just how much of the drama in movies is generated by an unspoken rule that the characters aren’t allowed to communicate well? Instead of naming the problem, they’re forced to skirt around it until the plot makes it impossible to ignore. It’s…

Annals of Inquiry Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives. October 27, 2025 Recent research has linked mental imagery to traits as different as vulnerability to trauma and a…

Dr Steve Parker 5 min read· Jun 20, 2023 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Have you ever wondered what the purpose of life is? Have you experienced disorientation and despair in the face of a meaningless existence? If these thoughts resonate with you, rest assured that you are not…

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Shouts & Murmurs August 28, 2025 Photograph by Mathieu Polak / Sygma / Getty Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime confidante of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, told a top administration official she never saw President Trump engage in improper or illegal acts during his long friendship with Mr.…

Over the years, Julian Treasure has identified a set of common emotional drivers that suck the power out of communication. He calls these the four leeches. “Most people — me included! — have most, or all, of them in some form,” says Treasure. “I’m not suggesting they’re bad, wrong or to be condemned…

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Nico Sell, the cofounder of a secure communication app called Wickr, has appeared on television twice. Both times, she wore sunglasses to prevent viewers from getting a full picture of what she looks like. Sell, also an organizer of the hacker conference Def Con, places herself in the top 1% of the…

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Special Section | Turning the Page Myanmar as seen from a Thai sentry post, where the author was reporting on Thailand’s efforts to fight increased drug trafficking along the Thai-Myanmar border in 2009.Credit...Annie Tritt for The international Herald Tribune BANGKOK — Not long after landing in New…

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Daryl Foriest, director of distribution at the Food Bank’s pantry and soup kitchen in Harlem, was skeptical at first of the Toyota engineers’ efforts. “The line of people waiting to eat is too long,” he told them. “Make the line shorter.” They did.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times The Food…

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As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their lack of knowledge is unsurprising; beyond the ranks of…

Page-Turner May 22, 2013 Recently, a colleague mentioned that she had been rereading Richard Hughes’s “A High Wind in Jamaica,” which was first published in 1929 and is about a group of creepy little kids who become the unwanted wards of sad, listless pirates. She praised it, and her recommendation…

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For those who use it, Notational Velocity needs no introduction (and for those who don’t, trying it out is the best way to really understand why it has such an ardent following). It’s a simple application for taking, storing and searching text notes. Its range of features does not extend far beyond…

By Sean Bonner [ Photo : Paris, 2010, by Sean Bonner] By definition, "neo-minimalists" don't have an overabundance of things in their lives. But one thing they tend to have more and more of these days is visibility. Recently, The New York Times talked to some people participating in the 100 Thing…

Editor’s Note : We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring . Next up is Rex Sorgatz ( @fimoculous ) — a media consultant, writer, and entrepreneur based in New York — who has an apocalyptic vision for the nation’s startup scene, and who…

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Jobs’s sensibility was more editorial than inventive. “I’ll know it when I see it,” he said. Credit Illustration by André Carrilho Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto. Jobs always found it difficult to…