The World’s Tallest Geyser Holds On to Some Secrets
• Why had it reactivated? • What controls the intervals between its eruptions? • And why is it so tall? Geysers, which occur in volcanic regions, spew underground reservoirs of water skyward after mag
Jon Stewart Returns With a ‘Current Events’ Series for Apple TV+
John Koblin, reporting for The New York Times: Mr. Stewart, the former anchor of “The Daily Show,” has reached adeal to host a current-affairs series for Apple TV+, the companyannounced on Tuesday. Ap
The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
I try to keep two distinct readers in mind with these annual reviews of new iPhones. First, you , today — you probably want insight to help you decide, to some degree, whether you should upgrade from
Why we must raise a generation of readers
Reading is a pleasure but it is also a unique form of mental exercise for children Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 06:00 Lorraine Levis: I knew what reading had done for me growing up and sharing that gradually be
Babies' random choices become their preferences
By / Published Oct 2 Name Jill Rosen Email jrosen@jhu.edu Office phone 443-997-9906 Cell phone 443-547-8805 Twitter JHUmediareps When a baby reaches for one stuffed animal in a room filled with others
What I've Learned From Having A Trans Partner
My partner doesn't want his body. But I do. Ping Zhu for BuzzFeed News What did I learn from falling in love with a trans person? That spark plugs are on sale this week at Fleet Farm. How to feed a ch
A Campaign of Voter Subtraction
The Atlantic T he people who were attracted to Donald Trump in 2016 have become alienated from President Trump in 2020. White women, seniors, and suburbanites are abandoning him in droves. The other s
Perspective | Here’s a list of the 10 greatest works of journalism of the past 10 years. Care to argue about it?
With so much news slamming us at every moment, it’s hard to see any of it as having enduring value. Who can even remember what happened last week? But not everything is ephemeral. Some journalism real
Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Hi, Speed’ iPhone 12 Event
Last month’s “Time Flies” event for the Apple Watch Series 6 and new iPad Air was about an hour long; this week’s “Hi, Speed” event ran just a bit longer at 70 minutes. Perhaps, if 2020 had gone has p
A Bit of Self-Served Claim Chowder Regarding iMessage and Phone Numbers as Identifiers
One last bit of behind-the-scenes follow-up regarding the production of The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020. For help with my audio setup, I worked with Zach Phillips . Phillips is local to Philly, an
The psychologist in the Trump family speaks
Michael D'Antonio is the author of the book "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success" and co-author with Peter Eisner of "The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence." The opinions
The 7 Commandments of Keeping Your Cool, No Matter What
When I started dogsledding ten years ago, I dreamed of one clean run. A run where nothing went wrong—the sled didn’t break in half with 14 huskies attached to it, or a blizzard didn’t close in, or the
Opinion | Let Children Get Bored Again
Let Children Get Bored Again Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency. Ms. Paul is the editor of the Book Review. Credit...
Never feel overwhelmed at work again: how to use the M.I.T. technique
by Sihui Huang Have you ever felt exhausted after a day at work? At the end of a busy day, you couldn’t remember how you spent your time. All you knew was that there was more to be done tomorrow. You
Barack Obama Joins Lin-Manuel Miranda on a ‘Hamilton’ Remix
Barack Obama Joins Lin-Manuel Miranda on a ‘Hamilton’ Remix Barack Obama, who delivers part of George Washington’s farewell address in a gospel remix of “One Last Time,” in the recording studio. Credi
Could This 36-Year-Old Indiana Mayor Topple Trumpism?
Pete Buttigieg is perpetually on the move. When the South Bend, Indiana, mayor spoke to Rolling Stone last Wednesday, he was en route to a local speaking gig while sorting out his thoughts for a big s
The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity | CSS-Tricks
Early in my career when I worked at agencies and later at Microsoft on Edge, I heard the same lament over and over: “Argh, why doesn’t Edge just run on Blink? Then I would have access to ALL THE APIs
In the Name of Love
“Do what you love. Love what you do.” The commands are framed and perched in a living room that can only be described as “well-curated.” A picture of this room appeared first on a popular design blog
Bribes, Backdoor Deals, and Pay to Play: How Bad Rosé Took Over
Here’s a snippet of an email I got last week: FROM: Wine account salesperson TO: Victoria James, Cote Korean Steakhouse Subject: Opportunity? ...I wanted to see if you were around next week to try som
Survival of the Richest – Future Human – Medium
FUTURE HUMAN The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind Douglas Rushkoff Jul 5, 2018 · 9 min read Illustrations: Matt Huynh L ast year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a key
Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries
An engineer inserts a lithium-ion battery from an electric vehicle into a testing system for recycling. Credit: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg/Getty Electric vehicles need powerful, light and affordable batte
Ex-KKK member denounces hate groups one year after Charlottesville
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Nearly one year ago, Ken Parker joined hundreds of other white nationalists at a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. That…
How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’ Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast On August 3, 2001, a McDonald’s film crew arrived in the…
Trump fears his son may have inadvertently gotten into legal trouble: report
President Trump reportedly fears that his son Donald Trump Jr. may have inadvertently gotten himself into legal trouble. The Washington Post reported Saturday that Trump has told advisers and close confidants he doesn’t believe his son knowingly broke any law, but said Trump Jr. could have…
Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
In the middle of last month (July 2018), I found myself staring at a projector screen, waiting once again to see if Wikipedia would load. If I was lucky, the page started rendering 15-20 seconds after I sent the request. If not, it could be closer to 60 seconds, assuming the browser didn’t just time…
How the ‘brainy’ book became a publishing phenomenon
Illustration by Eric Chow. T his is a story about a book that just kept selling, catching publishers, booksellers and even its author off guard. In seeking to understand the reasons for the book’s unusually protracted shelf life, we uncover important messages about our moment in history, about the…
Watergate had tapes. Trump has tweets.
Photo illustration: Javier Zarracina; Getty Images The Watergate tapes stand as one of the stunning, implausible twists of American history. Nixon confessed his crimes and recorded himself in the process. Who does that? In their book The Final Days , Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein write, “the…
NRA Says it Is Facing a Financial Crisis, Twitter Users Send “Thoughts & Prayers”
Attendees enter the NRA Annual Meeting & Exhibits at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on May 5, 2018 in Dallas, Texas. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The National Rifle Association says it is in dire financial straits and knows just who to blame: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In a lawsuit ,…
Like-minded vs. like-hearted
A reader sent me a note a few days ago remarking that while he didn’t share my politics, he felt he was able to really listen to what I have to say, rather than tuning out what he didn’t want to hear. He suspected it had to do with the creative spirit, the connection you feel with another person you…
Trump is more worried about Michael Cohen's criminal case than he is about the Russia investigation
President Donald Trump is apparently more unnerved by the rapidly developing criminal case surrounding his personal lawyer Michael Cohen than he is about Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the Russia probe. A report from The New York Times cites people familiar with Trump's thinking who…
Donald Trump's presidency is collapsing
We know President Donald Trump is a strong man, possibly the strongest and most fit president we've ever had. But even his broad shoulders — which many say are the broadest of all the presidential shoulders — can't carry the weight of the scandals that are presently piling up. Advertisement We're…
Amazon Apologizes for Shipping Ten Thousand Copies of Comey’s Book to White House
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling it a “regrettable accident,” Amazon apologized on Thursday for shipping ten thousand advance copies of James Comey’s book, “A Higher Loyalty,” to the White House.
Cartons of the book arrived early Thursday morning and kept coming throughout the day, until…
Trump wants back in the TPP, the trade deal he killed in his third day in office
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump called the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership “a disaster” and “a rape to our country.” As a newly minted president, he pulled the US out of the 12-nation trade deal, proclaiming the move was “a great thing for the American worker .” Little more than a year…
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell Aren't Going to Protect Robert Mueller
The revelation that the FBI raided the New York offices of longtime Trump lawyer and noted hush-money dispensary Michael Cohen on Monday has sent our president into another one of his trademark spells that leave White House reporters scrambling to identify previously unused synonyms for "angry." And…
The FBI Raids on Trump’s Attorney Are Bad News for Trump
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo Special Counsel Robert Mueller would not do this lightly. Norman Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2009 to 2011 and ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014. Noah Bookbinder is executive director…
Today’s Impeach-O-Meter: Trump Struggles to Convince Himself Everything’s Fine in Meandering Response to FBI Raid of Lawyer’s Office
The Impeach-O-Meter is a wildly subjective and speculative daily estimate of the likelihood that Donald Trump leaves office before his term ends, whether by being impeached (and convicted ) or by resigning under threat of same. JUST IN: President Trump says the FBI raid of his personal attorney,…
Why your superstar coworker will probably give up before you do
Any manager tasked with a challenging project is likely to tap the office rock stars for the assignment, relying on their talent and inner drive to get the job done. What makes great intuitive sense can nonetheless backfire. A new study in the Academy of Management Journal suggests that people…
Why Are So Many (Young) Evangelicals Now Progressives?
I came of age as a professor at the threshold of Ronald Reagan when so many American evangelicals climbed aboard the GOP and conservative politics (of a sort) and were against abortion (and voted accordingly for Republicans) and thought America was going to pot and, by golly, they wanted to make a…
In 72 hours, Trump undermined everything the Republicans stood for
Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp, but what he never told anyone is he planned on replacing it with a cesspool. This morning, the President of the United States officially endorsed accused child molester Roy Moore , the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama. Meanwhile, European allies…
Americans Hold Record Liberal Views on Most Moral Issues
Story Highlights 10 of 19 issues show most permissive views to date Americans most in agreement on acceptability of birth control Extramarital affairs most likely to be seen as morally wrong WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans continue to express an increasingly liberal outlook on what is morally…