neural net tried to generate pick up lines. use at own risk.https://t.co/GmURyBWjAU pic.twitter.com/hclmBkwvkU — Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) February 14, 2019 Tweeted by @JanelleCShane

As you circulate around your neighborhood bookstore or trawl the fiction section of Amazon, your eyes may sweep across the words “A Novel” on many a cover. “ The Mars Room: A Novel ,” “ Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel ,” “ Purity: A Novel .” “Duh,” you may think, though it’s possible the phrase…

Hilma af Klint exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum I went to the Hilma af Klint show at the Guggenheim alone. It was my birthday. I had other obligations, but I snuck out of them. I don’t like birthdays, and I wanted to be alone with art made by a woman. I found parts of the show stunning and parts…

In a ball of paper, scientists discover a landscape of surprising mathematical order. Paper is an ideal model for studying other crumpling challenges, such as how DNA packs into a cell, or how best to cram a giant solar sail into a small satellite. Credit Jens Mortensen for The New York Times While…

I wasn’t going to write about it but my nice editors at the @TorontoStar asked me to do up my Monday night blizzard ski trip through Toronto & they put it on the front page, above the fold & a spread on A3. https://t.co/sLRyPtofIq pic.twitter.com/vkDt0vKsZd — Shawn Micallef (@shawnmicallef)…

In this excerpt from her second memoir, Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia, Everything But the Girl’s Tracey Thorn describes growing up in a stifling commuter village – and the first stirrings of wanting to escape. https://t.co/r8L5G4Lrvt — Eric Alper (@ThatEricAlper) January 28,…

I read a lot, but I still miss stuff. This feature on Marie Kondo by @taffyakner is very good, and more relevant than ever: https://t.co/jYvXAcROFx — Karen K. Ho (@karenkho) January 17, 2019 Tweeted by @karenkho

Photos of #Toronto's #WomensMarch2019 from today https://t.co/rNifyywWCW via @tanjatiziana @nowtoronto pic.twitter.com/cZx7b3LaBT — Michelle da Silva (@michdas) January 20, 2019 Tweeted by @michdas

Good data on the myth of the childless city. We undertook due diligence in Toronto and discovered a mini-baby boom in the most urban parts of the city. As a result, we created Growing Up Vertical: Design Guidelines for family living in dense urban places. https://t.co/7UkcfbMiNS — Jennifer Keesmaat…

Bryan Woolston / AP It was like a scene out of left-wing protest literature: a group of white, parochial-school boys in “Make America Great Again” gear taunting an American Indian protester, jeering and laughing, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after attending the anti-abortion March for Life.…

ALWAYS fun to break the news on a new wine that offers incredible value for money. Check this out: https://t.co/3pZ9l3svtI https://t.co/3pZ9l3svtI — carolyn e. hammond (@thewinefind) January 24, 2019 Tweeted by @thewinefind

Roger Stone has worked with Richard Nixon and Lee Atwater, and on the Florida recount. Photographs by Platon A sign inside the front door of Miami Velvet, a night club of sorts in a warehouse-style building a few minutes from the airport, states, “If sexual activity offends you in any way, do not…

Edgy. ARTURIA #NAMM2019 / Ça me rappelle certains films français, un peu décalés du reste du monde. https://t.co/sVyJ2XBmDK — Alexandre Enkerli (@enkerli) January 25, 2019 Tweeted by @enkerli

John Scalzi is a familiar name to most science fiction readers. He’s best known for his long-running blog Whatever as well as books like Old Man’s War, Redshirts , The Collapsing Empire , and, most recently, The Consuming Fire . In “A Model Dog,” Scalzi looks at what first appears to be one tech…

“Hey, do you have a moment?” “You’re my boss. I am required to have moments for you.” “That’s not entirely true.” “I’ll remember you said that at my next performance review. What’s up?” “I have an unusual job that I need someone to make a priority, and I need it to be you.” “Okay, well, before we go…

It feels like this year has been a hundred months long. The image of Falyne at the water park with the Jamies, wearing the black and white swimsuit i bought for our trip to Tree World, is dated june 13, and i know that’s the first time we fought about her picture feed, but it feels like history.…

My seemingly never-ending struggles with procrastination force me to read a lot of books on the topic. The Now Habit by Neil Fiore is one of the better ones. I especially like a time-planning method he’s come up with called The Unschedule . In today’s article, I want to show you what The Unschedule…

This year marks the 25th year I've kept a journal. I wrote about why I keep it up after all this time in today's @torontostar. Buy a paper! https://t.co/CiVoKxVnnW — Jake Tobin Garrett (@jaketobin) January 19, 2019 Tweeted by @jaketobin

It makes them feel good, it makes them feel proud, it makes them feel happy. https://t.co/Ekgat3cxbu — Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) January 19, 2019 Tweeted by @AdamSerwer

I wrote about Brampton Transit’s success story last year for @tvo. It is possible to build transit ridership in the suburbs. https://t.co/M1hmjww41S — Sean Marshall (@Sean_YYZ) January 17, 2019 Tweeted by @Sean_YYZ

I spent months reporting on an aspect of Facebook that's far more significant than most realize: moderation. Facebook, I found, is going further than it has acknowledged, exerting tremendous — and largely unseen — power over our politics and societies.https://t.co/LYpfEMdNde — Max Fisher…

Inside the List According to Elmore Leonard, aspiring writers should avoid using adverbs (“a mortal sin”). Zadie Smith says they should “work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.” Roddy Doyle tells them , “Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if…

In which @shawnmicallef tries out those e-scooters in California, and thinks about the challenges they might create if they are introduced to Toronto. https://t.co/L45kDfhMGV — Walk Toronto (@Walk_TO) January 12, 2019 Tweeted by @Walk_TO

Kellyanne Conway and her husband, George, arrive for a dinner at Union Station in Washington the day before Donald Trump’s inauguration. (Matt Rourke/AP) Kellyanne Conway is in her living room, showing me an enormous painting of Audrey Hepburn wearing a peacock on her head, but her husband, George,…

An A+ year for Asian-American art! "We’re still operating in a system governed by white gatekeepers, but there were more moments where I felt that thing — that Asian-American thing — shudder deep inside my bones." https://t.co/TP5SUsII3f — Elise Hu (@elisewho) December 29, 2018 Tweeted by…

Photo-Illustration: Konstantin Sergeyev/SelectAll Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and let them teach themselves. After all, computers…

President Barack Obama posted a wide-ranging list of the books, movies and music he enjoyed the most this year. Credit Amy Lombard for The New York Times Former President Barack Obama on Friday shared some of the books, movies and music he found most inspiring or thought-provoking in 2018, including…

straight man reading list https://t.co/EcCe7MTHZW — willennial (@ruhee_) December 30, 2018 Tweeted by @ruhee_

'The power of young people': B.C. Youth Parliament holds 90th session in Victoria https://t.co/2QGxsvKvas pic.twitter.com/P96cZID9Fm — CBC British Columbia (@cbcnewsbc) December 30, 2018 Tweeted by @cbcnewsbc

As a freshman in high school, in the year of our lord 2002, I made a website called “Jason’s Site.” While a website named after myself and devoted to updates about my own life was unspeakably vain for the time, it was also quite forward looking: The site has a news feed, an “about me” page, and an…

Imagine you’ve completely planned and detailed a unique, sprawling metropolis. Your imaginary city is meticulously mapped, thoroughly described, and its architectural styles have all been sorted out. You’re proud of your creation, even if attempting to digitally model it in its complete glory would…

Last October, I found myself at the Atlanta airport on the way out of the country for a conference. A Delta employee at the gate announced with surprising nonchalance that today they would be using facial recognition for the boarding process; she motioned toward an eye-level, oddly rounded screen…

Picsfive / inchic / Skoda / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic At every wedding I’ve been to this past year, the event space has been decorated with family portraits—black-and-white photos of grandmothers and grandfathers, pictures of parents with giant smiles and ‘70s hairstyles. Meanwhile,…

Communism, Chinese hip hop and global street culture converge on a Richmond bubble tea shop. What’s going on here? In Metro Vancouver, the popular Taiwanese beverage is being elevated to the level of lattes and cocktails as it finds new cultural homes.https://t.co/IaIjSwD6IS — The Tyee…

Bhaskar Sunkara. Photo: Matthew David Roberts . E very successful magazine, like every successful revolution, condenses an atmosphere. The atmosphere may be

The winners of @rvkgrapevine's Music Awards 2019 have been announced, and @OlafurArnalds has been named the Artist of the Year 🔥 #icelandmusic #icelandicmusic https://t.co/hXOnAtk6XM — Iceland Music (@IcelandMusic) January 7, 2019 Tweeted by @IcelandMusic

"Literature does not exist only to provoke feelings of happiness or to placate us with its pleasure; art should also challenge and perturb us." Amen sister. @AnakanaSchofiel in @GuardianBooks https://t.co/nN727CQieZ — Gregory McCormick (@mcco12mtl) January 7, 2019 Tweeted by @mcco12mtl

“Expedition: Robinson,” a Swedish reality-television program, premièred in the summer of 1997, with a tantalizing premise: sixteen strangers are deposited on a small island off the coast of Malaysia and forced to fend for themselves. To survive, they must coöperate, but they are also competing: each…

When director Stephen Hopkins ’ gritty urban thriller Judgment Night came out in 1993, it was released to mixed reviews and a modest box office take ($21 million on a $12 million budget). A harrowing, stripped-down actioner following a group of Evanston suburbanites ( Emilio Estevez , Cuba Gooding…

Thursday marked one of the most important days in congressional history for diversity. A record 102 women took office, 35 whom were newly-elected. They include Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim women to serve in the House of Representatives, and Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids, the first…