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Supper Club on Mars
For three weeks in May and June of this year, the Pierogi Boiler—a cavernous Brooklyn factory turned art-gallery space—was home to an odd structure: a 1,200-square-foot translucent plastic bubble, held...
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Radical Sandcastles
“Although I study the sociology of art, amongst other things, I have not worked up anything particularly deep about sandcastles,” said Matt Kaliner, a sociology lecturer at Harvard University and the...
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How to Make Privacy Policies Better, in Two Easy Steps
The end of last week saw one of those tech stories that runs the cycle—from Twitter outrage to corporate chagrin—in less than 48 hours. Here’s what happened: On Thursday, a major tech company (in this...
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So What?
On an old episode of Saturday Night Live, LeBron James stands behind a podium. “I was the youngest player in the NBA to score 1,000 points in one season,” he says. He’s about to be upstaged. Kristin...
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Computers Can Predict Schizophrenia Based on How a Person Talks
Although the language of thinking is deliberate—let me think, I have to do some thinking—the actual experience of having thoughts is often passive. Ideas pop up like dandelions; thoughts occur suddenly...
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When a Snuff Film Becomes Unavoidable
On Wednesday morning, two journalists in Roanoke, Virginia, were murdered on live television by a gunman. The two victims were a 24-year-old reporter, Alison Parker, and a 27-year-old cameraman, Adam...
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How to Stop Saying 'Screen Time'
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Who’s Doing the Talking on Twitter?
In the summer of 2013, Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter, reflected on his vision of the company as a “global town square.” The social network is “all public, real-time conversational, and widely...
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It's No Longer Hip to Be Square—on Instagram, At Least
Nearly five years after it was first released, Instagram has achieved something special, something that has eluded Twitter and Facebook. With its mix of friend photos, vacation postcards, and...
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A Conversation With Koko the Gorilla
One of the first words that Koko used to describe herself was Queen. The gorilla was only a few years old when she first made the gesture—sweeping a paw diagonally across her chest as if tracing a...
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How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive
Recently, Bic launched a campaign to “save handwriting.” Named “Fight for Your Write,” it includes a pledge to “encourage the act of handwriting” in the pledge-taker’s home and community, and...
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Hoarding Is Making Firefighting Harder
As Lieutenant Gordon Ambelas tore through the burning Brooklyn high-rise in search of victims last July, he fought back not only smoke and flames, but junk. The apartment's resident had stashed piles...
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A Brief History of Levees
The levee is a technology fundamental to human civilization. Artificial embankments were designed for the earliest cities, along with the first known draining systems and wells. In the ruins of great...
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The Phantom Road
In the autumns of 2012 and 2013, any hikers walking along a particular ridge in Idaho’s Lucky Peak State Park would have become very confused. One minute they’d be enjoying the tranquil chirps and...
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Introducing the Archive Corps
Jason Scott has something of a reputation. He’s a historian who works for the Internet Archive, and he’s known in some circles as the guy who can save bits of history right before they disappear. So...
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The $1 Pocket Microscope
It took about six months for the jungle to kill Aaron Pomerantz’s microscope. Pomerantz, an entomologist working with Rainforest Expeditions, had been doing fieldwork in the remote Tambopata Research...
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'The Meatball' Vs. 'The Worm': How NASA Brands Space
“It’s a design nightmare,” Greg Patt, a publishing contractor for NASA, sighed. He was talking about the logo that’s been the space agency’s official one since 1992: the blue sphere meant to suggest...
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Why Doesn't New Orleans Look More Like Amsterdam?
When Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge flooded southeast Louisiana, living with water was a nightmare for New Orleanians. For the past decade, one architect has dedicated himself to making life with...
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Server-less Restaurants Might Be the Future of Dining
Before there were fast-food restaurants, and long before there was fast-casual, there was a dining experience that was faster and casual-er than anything that would follow it. The automat, the original...
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You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code
I’m not in favor of anyone learning to code unless she really wants to. I believe you should follow your bliss, career-wise, because most of the things you’d buy with all the money you’d make as a...
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