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Okay, Who Edited the 'Choco Taco' Wikipedia Page From Congress?
Here is an update sent yesterday from the Twitter account @congressedits: Choco Taco Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives http://t.co/QzECJYjf6v — congress-edits...
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The Brilliance of Louis C.K.'s Emails: He Writes Like a Politician
Louis C.K.'s regular-guy shtick permeates everything about his image: the plain black T-shirts, the self-deprecating humor, his Twitter bio ("I am a comedian and a person and a guy who is sitting...
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Humans Already Use Way, Way More Than 10 Percent of Their Brains
By now, perhaps you’ve seen the trailer for the new sci-fi thriller Lucy. It starts with a flurry of stylized special effects and Scarlett Johansson serving up a barrage of bad-guy beatings. Then comes...
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The Original Patent for the Slip 'N Slide
Ah, the slick yellow quintessence of summer vacation. For generations of former children, the Slip 'N Slide evokes a strain of nostalgia that pairs perfectly with Super Soakers, water ballooons, and...
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This Girl Just Turned the Comcast Call From Hell Into an Emo Ballad
It was inevitable, probably. Earlier this week, a recording of a customer-service call from hell—one man's attempt to break up with Comcast, made with an agent who was extremely unwilling to be broken...
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From Inside the Iron Dome
Yesterday I contrasted the Washington Post's front-page story about Israel's "Iron Dome" protective system—"Highly Effective Missile Defense," as the headline put it—with much more skeptical coverage...
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How to Teach Google What a Story Is
Google wanted to solve a problem we can all understand. People take so, so many photographs and yet they actually do very little with them. A chosen few are posted to Instagram. Most sit in vast...
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You Are Mountain
Near the start of his relationship with a computer operating system in Spike Jonze’s Academy Award-winning film Her, Samantha the OS (Scarlett Johansson) helps Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) play a...
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'LEL,' 'Nyahahaha,' 'U Wat Brah': The Creative Ways We Laugh Online
"The passion of Laughter," Thomas Hobbes argued, "is nothyng else but a suddaine Glory arising from some suddaine Conception of some Eminency in our selves, by Comparison with the Infirmityes of...
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Jeff Koons's Science Projects
Today, H&M will release a special-edition leather handbag featuring the likeness of Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog (Yellow) in some stores and on its website. To celebrate (and, really, further...
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The FAA's Notice Prohibiting Airline Flights Over Ukraine
Many crucial questions about the tragic/disastrous apparent shootdown of the Malaysia Airlines flight in Ukraine are still unanswerable. Who did it? Why? With what warning? Or repercussions? But at...
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The Malaysia Air Crash: Should We Publish Pictures of Bodies?
We do not yet know all the details. We do not even know most of the details. What we do know is that earlier today, a passenger jet carrying 295 people crashed on the Russian/Ukrainian border. We know...
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Malaysia Airlines Crash: Could Separatist Fighters Have Hit a Plane Flying at...
A Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 has crashed in the Ukraine, in a region that's been marked by battles between the government and a Russian separatist movement. Before it crashed, the plane was flying...
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The Details About the CIA's Deal with Amazon
The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest. This summer, a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence...
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The Rise of the Wedding Drone
When most people hear the word “drone,” they probably think of killing machines that patrol war zones. Now a new kind of commercial drone phenomenon has taken off in the United States. People now use...
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Baby Photos and Clinging to My Principles
I had a strict rule when our son was born last summer: I wouldn't post any photos of him in public settings. It made sense to me at the time. I live a pretty public life, and the decision to keep him...
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Abbey Road's Photographic Echo
A man in blue jeans just walked across Abbey Road. He moved slowly, knees high and steps exaggerated, so that his companion could take a photograph of him midstep. I know this because I saw it happen....
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Don't Blame Malaysia Airlines
I have an op-ed in Saturday morning's NYT, whose title gets across its point: "Don't Blame Malaysia Airlines." Short version: Airlines rely on regulators and national and international bodies to tell...
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A Reading List of Stories About the Moon
What is it about the moon that inspires people so? It's gorgeous and glowing—oh, and by the way, humans totally walked on that thing. Nothing like gazing at the moon to make a person marvel at the...
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