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Email Is For Lovers
According to “media naturalness theory,” what makes a medium of communication “natural” is how closely it resembles face-to-face conversation. The more a medium allows people to respond to each other...
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Tinder for Exercise: The Case for Workout Partners
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The Next Wave of Diversity Disclosures in Silicon Valley
The airing of a tech company’s diversity numbers has become a rite of passage in Silicon Valley. And like other cliches in public discourse (see also: politicians resigning to “spend more time with...
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Apple's Smartphone Revolution Is Over
When Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in 2007, he bestowed a lot of adjectives on the strange and smoothly hewn chunk of metal and glass. The new device, he said, was "breakthrough," “phenomenal,”...
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The Most Interesting Part of Apple's Presentation Wasn't a Gadget
Apple’s announcement on Wednesday was chock full of shiny new hardware: new phones, new tablets, a new TV-set-top box. But perhaps the most important announcement from the company—and definitely the...
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Why Scientists and Scholars Can't Get Their Facts Straight
In 2012, the world was introduced to the wife of Jesus—or, more accurately, to an ancient papyrus containing a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples in which Jesus appears to have used the phrase,...
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Do Babies Know When They're Skyping?
Long before most babies toddle or talk, they begin to make sophisticated inferences about the world around them. By as young as 3 months old, newborns can form expectations based on physical principles...
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LinkedIn Is Not a Dating Site
LinkedIn is a lot of things: a convenient place to upload your resume online, a weird portal for “thinkfluencers” to post inspirational screeds about leadership à la Forbes.com, a site that indulges...
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How the Government Surveils Cellphones: A Primer
Last week, the state of cellphone tracking became slightly more confusing. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that, except in emergency situations, federal agents would now seek warrants before...
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Want to Census a Jungle? Sequence DNA From Blood-Sucking Leeches
When Thomas Gilbert found the Annamite striped rabbit, he wasn’t traipsing through the jungles of Vietnam where the exceedingly rare creature lives. He wasn’t inspecting a trap, or peering through...
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How Modern Furniture Endangers Firefighters
Tony Stefani had been a firefighter in San Francisco for nearly 28 years when, one January day in 2001, he was out jogging and began to feel weak. “The last mile I could barely run, I had to walk,” he...
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Mark Zuckerberg and the End of Language
Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg hosted an online Q&A session on his personal Facebook page. Over the course of an hour, Zuckerberg fielded questions on topics ranging from the meaning of...
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Internet Mystery of the Week: Who Is the Woman in These Vintage Photos?
“Okay so here’s the lowdown,” the photographer Meagan Abell wrote in a Facebook post on July 29. “I found four sets of medium-format negatives while I was thrift shop hunting a few weeks ago. They were...
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An Age-Old Battle: The FDA Versus the Shill
Last month, celebrity-news and health-policy bloggers had a rare moment of overlap after the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter to the pharmaceutical company Duchesnay, which...
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Why Don't We Know the Age of the New Ancient Human?
Last Thursday, the world said hello to Homo naledi, a new species of ancient human discovered in South Africa’s Rising Star cave. As I reported at the time, scientists extracted 1,550 fossil fragments...
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Understanding the Pacific's Earthquakes Through Indigenous Stories
In the year 1700, on January 26, at 9 o’clock at night, in what is now northern California, Earthquake was running up and down the coast. His feet were heavy and when he ran he shook the ground so much...
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When Will the Internet be Cheaper?
In 1970, it cost 70 cents to make a three-minute long-distance call in the United States—that’s the equivalent of $4.31 in today’s dollars. Today, however, long-distance calling barely exists. Not...
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For Apple, Boring Still Sells
As it has gone every year since 2007, when the first iPhone was announced, last week’s Apple event generated a lot of chatter. This year, though, some of that chatter took on a different tone. Some...
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Keep the Library, Lose the Books
Americans love libraries. No, wait, scratch that. Americans love the idea that they love libraries. A new Pew survey published Tuesday finds that while people report feeling strongly about the...
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Facebook Says It's Introducing a 'Dislike' Button
For more than six years, every Facebook status, photo, or page has had a little “Like” button hovering next to it. Want to show your approval? Click that button. But not everything in the world is...
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