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“Even an abysmal performance would be better than complete absence from the contest,” a group of British researchers concluded. | Continue reading
How an international team of experimental physicists used the unpredictability of the human brain to probe the nature of reality. | Continue reading
Columbus Nova has access to billions of dollars, with no need for new capital. So why did the firm hire Michael Cohen as a business consultant for a half million dollars? | Continue reading
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A New York chef spills some trade secrets. | Continue reading
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Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own. | Continue reading
Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own. | Continue reading
Thinking about artificial intelligence can help clarify what makes us human—for better and for worse. | Continue reading
Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image. | Continue reading
Drunk User Testing is based on the principle that an app should be simple enough that a person can use it buzzed. | Continue reading
The idea that authoritarianism attracts workers harmed by the free market, which emerged when the Nazis were in power, has been making a comeback. | Continue reading
For many people, including me, the contrivance of Burning Man gave us an immersive model of community and experimentation. | Continue reading
My apartment building was made to house the first generation of Soviet élite. Instead, it was where the revolution went to die. | Continue reading
Using false identities, a private intelligence firm tried to gather damaging information about the architects of the Iran nuclear deal. | Continue reading
She spent most of her forty-three years alone in a silk-lined burrow, venturing out only to mate and eat termites, but she became a matriarch of her colony and an inspiration to scientists. | Continue reading
Hit Japanese products, from the Walkman to Pokémon, have long captivated us, but Japan's most influential export might be its own lived experience. | Continue reading
Harvey Levin runs a gossip site that operates like an intelligence agency. How did it become so powerful? | Continue reading
For some residents of Cape Town, the memory of the drought is already fading. But, in an increasingly parched world, will the anxiety ever really end? | Continue reading
By your early forties, the best part about going to bed is imagining the coffee you’re going to drink in the morning. | Continue reading
In “Late Fame,” a newly translated satire by Arthur Schnitzler, an aging Viennese civil servant is crowned a master poet, virtually out of nowhere. | Continue reading
American companies that fall victim to data breaches want to retaliate against the culprits. But can they do so without breaking the law? | Continue reading
We yearn for frictionless technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way that norms and standards change. | Continue reading
Shannon had a weakness for juggling and unicycles, but his fingerprints are on every electronic device we own. | Continue reading
Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop. | Continue reading
People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than you’d expect. | Continue reading
I have two kids and the unspoken pressure to act like they don’t exist when I’m on a conference call. | Continue reading
In his writing and on Twitter, James Rebanks conveys what it means to participate in the land in the twenty-first century. | Continue reading
Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary—a computer that you could communicate with in pictures. | Continue reading
Fifty years ago, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke set out to make a new kind of sci-fi. How does their future look now that it’s the past? | Continue reading