A Politician Takes a Sledgehammer to His Own Ego Just in time for Easter, the story of a blind state leader who is giving up his office to join the Jesuits. Opinion Columnist Cyrus Habib announced tha

In the distant past, there was a proverbial “digital divide” that bifurcated workers into those who knew how to use computers and those who didn’t.[1] Young Gen Xers and their later millennial compani

Some time back, I was working on a project where it felt like the timebomb of technical debt was exploding in our faces. We couldn’t refactor the whoositz because of the whatsitz and when we asked abo

We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. Part 1: Meet Your Mammoth The first day I was in second grade, I came to school and noticed that there was a new, very p

During Barack Obama’s presidency, Joe Biden’s propensity for cutting deals with Mitch McConnell became a running source of aggravation for liberals. Now it will be the key to getting anything done at

With the current era of rum gathering steam toward a golden age, an exciting by-product is the ready availability of full-throated, hogo-licious Jamaican rums. The intense, overripe banana and pineapp

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In Facebook posts and public appearances, Indian politician T. Raja Singh has said Rohingya Muslim immigrants should be shot, called Muslims traitors and threatened to raze mosques. Facebook Inc. empl

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The learning never stops. For several years I’ve endeavored to understand the flavor science and history behind Jamaican rum’s unique hogo. As part of that I’ve visited every Jamaican rum distillery,

‘It is always a bit troubling in the current environment when websites don’t really indicate what they’re all about,’ said Matt Gertz.Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA In March this year, the small Illinois town of Hinsdale, in the western Chicago suburbs, was facing a crisis. The village’s district…

Since the early 2000s, Indonesia’s continuously growing internet economy has made the country one of Southeast Asia’s most lucrative markets. This has caught the attention of the nation’s wealthiest f

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When it comes to shopping in a pandemic, turns out the two things people crave are comfort and convenience. It’s why Amazon sales are projected to see a year-over-year sales jump of nearly 22% in the first quarter. It’s why it feels like everyone with an Instagram account has been baking sourdough…

A still from the 1963 film of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.Photograph: Ronald Grant F or centuries western culture has been permeated by the idea that humans are selfish creatures. That cynical

Given the dozens of new bottlings released every month, the limited amount of alcohol our livers can (and should) take, as well as our all too narrow budgets, orientation is key when it comes to buyin

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Earlier this month, what could have been the worst aviation accident in history was narrowly averted. An Air Canada pilot mistakenly lined up to land on a taxiway , instead of a parallel runway, at Sa

If you’re headed into some important meeting, you might down a cup or two of coffee without thinking much of it, hoping the caffeine will provide your brain with an extra boost. But in his new book on personality science, psychologist Brian Little suggests that for introverts, this strategy may…

Albert Einstein was 16 years old when he first flirted with the idea of special relativity. He was a daydreamer. The pioneering theory that lead him to establish the foundation of modern physics was actually envisioned in one of his many famous thought experiments. He wondered, specifically, what…

Learning a new language is hard — especially if you're an adult, especially if you're busy, and especially if the language is based on really different sounds than your native tongue. Hard, but not impossible. In Scientific American , Veronique Greenwood highlights two recent studies that suggest…

Leer en español Dr. James is a leading ophthalmologist at a major medical clinic. Passionate about medicine, he wanted to hire someone to run the business operations of his practice. He carefully revi

Who, Me? Today is Monday the 58th of March 2020. As a service to stop the days blurring into one, take a moment to enjoy a tale of NetWare, Blu Tack and a broken pencil in today's Who, Me? reader confession. This time we return to the 1990s, and to a region of Australia that our protagonist, a…

Published March 23, 2020 in Statuspage We learned the hard way so you don’t have to. Published March 23, 2020 in Statuspage Product Marketing Manager A lot of teams are asking us about how to do incident management when you’re suddenly remote. We understand. Going remote can be scary, and few things…

Bartending, from the outside, can seem incredibly complicated. With a dizzying array of cocktail names and corresponding recipes to memorize, obscure-sounding ingredients, infusions, equipment and for

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N ews of the death of Margaret Mary Vojtko, an adjunct professor of French at Duquesne University, went viral in 2013. The circumstances of her final months painted a jarring picture of how dire a professor’s living conditions could be. Before Vojtko learned her semester-to-semester contract would…

My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind. I saw this tweet yesterday that said that not everyone has an internal monologue in their head. All my life, I could hear my voice in my head and speak in full sentences as if I was talking…

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept" 01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140 Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept. [Laughter] So at a mathematical level this is an obvious truism.…

“My suggestion is that you try to contact Michael Fogg… he is definitely the most knowledgeable living person regarding the early derivation of navy rum.” Historians live for the moment when the heavy

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opinion Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast I remember once reading another writer’s description of the sensory thrill in the opening of a new whiskey, the anticipation generated by the weight of the bottle in your hand, the sparkling play of light on the bubbles in the neck, the crisp snap of the…

When I started dating my partner, I quickly noticed that grad school was making her very sad . This was shortly after I’d started leading an engineering team at Wave, and so the “obvious” hypothesis to me was that the management (okay, “management”) one gets in graduate school is totally ineffective…

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Yasser Chalid / Getty My 92-year-old father fell one Saturday night a few months ago. My mother could not pick him up. Her brother was not answering his cellphone, so she called 911. An ambulance crew brought him to the hospital. The emergency-room physician ordered a CT scan. A spot on the scan…

Bastiaan Slabbers / NurPhoto / Getty Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . When, in January 2016, I wrote that despite being a lifelong Republican who worked in the previous three GOP administrations, I would…

AP Images The key features: quick action, extensive testing, and relentless tracking. Mar 12, 2020 AP Images I began writing this at Raffles Hotel, a gleaming white pinnacle of Singapore’s British colonial past. Immaculately renovated over the past two and a half years, it is truly one of the…

Hermes Images / AGF / Universal Images Group / Getty The flight that put the Boeing Company on course for disaster lifted off a few hours after sunrise. It was good flying weather—temperatures in the mid-40s with a slight breeze out of the southeast—but oddly, no one knew where the 737 jetliner was…

On October 3, 2019, the United States and the United Kingdom entered into a first-of-its-kind executive agreement under the CLOUD Act . The text of the agreement was released on October 7, 2019. For a fine overview of the provisions of the agreement, Jennifer Daskal and Peter Swire posted a summary…