register log in remember me forgot password Bookmark The Way of Kings Reread on Tor.com Michael Pye and Carl Engle-Laird Welcome to the reread of Brandon Sanderson’s first Stormlight Archive series book The Way of Kings. Join Michael Pye (aka The Mad Hatter) and Carl Engle-Laird as they dive into…

Books Albert O. Hirschman and the power of failure. by Malcolm Gladwell June 24, 2013 Hirschman was a planner who saw virtue in the fact that nothing went as planned. Illustration by Ricardo Martinez. Hirschman was a planner who saw virtue in the fact that nothing went as planned. Illustration by…

Alfred Anaya was a genius at installing secret compartments in cars. If they were used to smuggle drugs without his knowledge, he figured that wasn’t his problem. He was wrong. Illustration: Paul Pope Alfred Anaya took pride in his generous service guarantee. Though his stereo installation business,…

In magic circles, Robbins is regarded as a kind of legend. Psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and the military study his methods for what they reveal about the nature of human attention. Photograph by Martin Schoeller. A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act…

Most Japanese girls giggle. The little maid on the fourth floor of the Miyako Hotel, in Kyoto, was no exception. Hilarity, and attempts to suppress it, pinked her cheeks (unlike the Chinese, the Japanese complexion more often than not has considerable color), shook her plump peony-and-pansy-kimonoed…

from our August 2012 issue The Prestige The Prestige At one point in The Prestige , Christopher Nolan ’s 2006 film about the rivalry between two magicians in 1890s London, Borden (Christian Bale) criticises a rival who has reached the top and lost his edge: “Milton’s got success, whatever that…

Read Later Font Size Print You have read: 0 / 8 free articles in the past 30 days. Already a subscriber? sign up for unlimited access for just $34.97Sign me up POLITICS JULY 13, 2012 BY WALTER KIRN @walterkirn A personal history of America’s most misunderstood religion. Before 2013 begins, catch up…

It almost seems as if we’re trying to raise a nation of “adultescents.” In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several months with the Matsigenka, a tribe of about twelve thousand people who live in the Peruvian Amazon. The Matsigenka hunt…

In the 1st part of the IP Routing series, we learned the fundamentals of Linux IP Routing . Route command is used to show/manipulate the IP routing table. It is primarily used to setup static routes to specific host or networks via an interface. In this article we will see how to manipulate the…

America’s last competitive advantage — its ability to innovate — is at risk as a result of the country’s lackluster education system, according to research by Harvard Innovation Education Fellow Tony Wagner. Taking the stage at Skillshare’s Penny Conference, Wagner pointed out the skills it takes to…

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Alan Gilbert is the music director of the New York Philharmonic and in this video, he talks about what a conductor does. I’ve been to the Philharmonic a few times in the past year and have wondered about the role of the conductor…specifically, is he actually doing anything up there to affect the…

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 the fire, of grammarians, linguists and other…

In a talk soon to grab several million views on TED.com, cognitive scientist Deb Roy Wednesday shared a remarkable experiment that hearkens back to an earlier era of science using brand-new technology. From the day he and his wife brought their son home five years ago, the family's every movement…

The shocking theft of the Mona Lisa, in August 1911, appeared to have been solved 28 months later, when the painting was recovered. In an excerpt from their new book, the authors suggest that the audacious heist concealed a perfect—and far more lucrative—crime.