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You Can Already Code—You Just Don’t Know It Yet
When someone tells you they code, it’s as if they’re calling you from inside the world’s most exclusive club.
Ed Rex in On Coding3 min read
The Ghost of NFC Future
Within minutes of sitting down at the counter of the Butterbell Grill, Colin noticed something strange about the family seated in the far…
Greg Gueldner7 min read
Eleven Years Lost in Translation
Johanna Hortolani on the eleven Years Guantánamo detainee Emad Abdalla Hassan has lost in translation
Reprieve4 min read
Secrets of the Stacks
How libraries decide which books to keep—and which don’t stand the test of time
Phyllis Rose17 min read
Hashtag Complicated
#BringBackOurGirls
Matt Bors in Matt Bors1 min read
Why Michael Jackson’s “New” Record Says More About the Industry Than He Ever Did
Money, power and the politics of reanimation.
The FADER3 min read
I Was a Son of Satan
On fatherly confusion and worry
Jimmy Chen in Human Parts3 min read
San Francisco’s (In)Visible Class War
What you can learn by talking to homeless folks
danah boyd4 min read
Why Other Cities Matter
Finding the Stories in the Middle
Zan McQuade6 min read
How to Negotiate with Terrorists
And by “terrorists,” I’m referring to real estate agents in San Francisco.
Ross Morrison6 min read
My Life in Second Position
On being the ballerina’s clumsy sister
Laura Sook Duncombe in The Archipelago6 min read
Instagram Just Geotagged Us To Hell
When Politics Drive Product Decisions, We All Lose
MG Siegler in Five Hundred Words3 min read
Telling a Story of Stillbirth
Accepting the Limits of Narrative
Janel Atlas14 min read
Chile’s thirst for water
A Chilean city famous for mining in the Atacama Desert is running out of water. Fast.
Leonardo Banchik for LatinAmericanScience.org8 min read
Atkins vs. Ornish: The Fight Over Fat
Avoiding saturated fats has come with two unintended consequences: The first has been the embrace of vegetable oils.
Nina Teicholz in Game-changing Ideas8 min read
Listening to Russia’s State Media, It’s Hard to Tell Fact From Fiction
The Kremlin’s government-media complex spins the Ukraine crisis
Robert Beckhusen & Matthew Gault in War Is Boring6 min read
Two Weeks Ago, I Almost Died in the Deadliest Plane Crash Ever
How Two Jetliners Nearly Collided Over the Pacific, Why No One Knows About It, and What It Means for Safety Oversight Aboard Airplanes
Kevin Townsend15 min read
Google Beauty
These algorithms are representing something ugly.
Joanne McNeil in The Message4 min read
Bad Decision Bingo: Cocktails
Five In A Row Makes A Loser
Dante Shepherd in I Love Charts1 min read
The Roast in the Fridge
What I learned from my mother and hers
Erika Hall4 min read
False equivalency in the NYT
How Jeremy Peters’s voter ID reporting is even more wrong than you think
felix salmon4 min read
Why Apple Bought Beats
It’s Becoming a Fashion Company
Dave Troy3 min read
on being a mother
My defining moment as a mother came in 1994, when my son was 18 months old.
Michele Catalano in writing out loud5 min read
Today I’m Going to Predict Your Future
Five important things that will happen to you before your 20-year college reunion
Amy Webb in TheLi.st @ Medium11 min read
Mother’s Day: A Manifesto
A few days earlier, my husband looked at the calendar, and then up at me with slight alarm: “It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday, what do you…
marie myung-ok lee5 min read

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