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Why we need a dating app that understands Nash’s equilibrium
Why we need a dating app that understands Nash’s equilibrium
Nash’s equilibrium is a simple concept that helps economists predict how competing companies will set prices, how much to pay a much-in…
Abhishek Madhavan
May 23
What is Covfefe?
Covfefe is the gradual transmogrification of Donald Trump into Richard Nixon, a process fuelled by a diet of paranoia and KFC and self…
Devorah Blachor
May 31
Dead by the Sword of the Former Red Power Ranger
Dead by the Sword of the Former Red Power Ranger
Ricardo Medina pled guilty in March to killing his roommate with a nearly 3-foot blade. He said it was self-defense; the victim’s family…
Cole Kazdin
May 30
Five days of peacemaking for an army squadron, then a bomb
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan — The honeymoon at this base in southeastern Afghanistan lasted five days. On the sixth, a…
Heidi Vogt
May 30
In case you missed it
The Mystic In The Machine
The Mystic In The Machine
The Tao of computation
Sam Barlow
May 28
Amazon Just Invented Borders Books
A quick trip to Amazon Books in NYC…
M.G. Siegler
May 26
making sense of white domestic terrorism
the role of white entitlement in violence
Anthony J. Williams
May 28
House of the Rising Sun
House of the Rising Sun
Nonfiction by Kailee Marie Pedersen
Kailee Marie Pedersen
May 29
What It Means To Become The ‘Fat Friend’
How your fat friend learns to disappear.
Your Fat Friend
May 22
Does maths make you moral?
Does maths make you moral?
Mathematics and moral agency
Junaid Mubeen
May 29
You know what this is about.
You know what this is about.
A life update.
John Gorman
May 28
The Gut-Wrenching Effect of Remembrance and Loss on Memorial Day
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The Gut-Wrenching Effect of Remembrance and Loss on Memorial Day
Losing friends in combat, Trump blaming his generals for service member deaths, and the long-term effects on our veteran’s mental health
Benjamin Sledge
May 22
A Masculinity Camp for Boys That Starts at Age 8
A Masculinity Camp for Boys That Starts at Age 8
Each session of Camp Nick, a “masculinity camp” for boys age 8 to 11 held in a bucolic park in Santa Monica, California, begins with a…
C. Brian Smith
May 23
4 Things You Learn From Making 200 Calls A Night For Hillary
The Colorado Democratic ground game is drunk. It’s the eve of the first debate and our oracle has the E-Day odds at 50/50. A coin toss…
Zach Ehrlich
May 28
A Few Thoughts About Violence
The last time someone pointed a gun at me, and what I learned from it.
Jason Schmidt
May 28
BB3L
BB3L
I’m sitting in the park on a blanket sewn by my grandmother. Melanie and Ellie, my wife and daughter are here with me. This is the only…
Ryan Riley
May 4
The Day Reading Died
I still remember it.
Charles Chu
May 28
Boom
I am one of the seventy-six million babies born in the United States between 1946 and 1964, a Baby Boomer, the generation once called the…
Peter Arango
May 26
One Hundred Days of Hiding
One Hundred Days of Hiding
This is how the life of a family of undocumented immigrants changed since Trump’s America.
Martín Echenique
May 13
The Dirtbag Left at Harvard: An Interview with Chapo Trap House
Note: This interview was originally supposed to appear in The Harvard Crimson following Chapo Trap House’s live show at Harvard on April 14…
Matthew J. Watson
May 2
I’m a reporter in Mexico. My life is in danger. But the United States wouldn’t give me asylum
I’m a reporter in Mexico. My life is in danger. But the United States wouldn’t give me asylum
Perspective: Mexican authorities threatened to kill me. I was detained for months in the United States before I agreed to be deported.
Washington Post
May 26
Mood as Extrapolation Engine: Using Emotions to Generate Momentum
Mood as Extrapolation Engine: Using Emotions to Generate Momentum
I believe that moods (or less colloquially, states of mind) can be used not just defensively, making the best of whatever mood you’re in…
Tiago Forte
May 24
A Time to Kill iTunes
A Time to Kill iTunes
“It’s like giving somebody a glass of hell in ice water.”
M.G. Siegler
May 11
The Cottage We Loved and Lost
The Cottage We Loved and Lost
MY PARENTS bought this cottage from a heartbroken man in 1971.
Bryan Gruley
May 24
