Poker is famously hard for machines to model because you have limited information, you have to iterate your strategies
The new rhetoric of television politics
Politics happens in (at least) three places:
political institutions, like legislatures, courthouses, and executive off
A Japanese smartphone you can wash with soap and water
Smartphones have been getting more water-resistant for a while now, but this is pretty crazy. Via Ina Fried at Recode,
Wired in the 1990s
I used to work at Wired, and later at The Verge, and at both places we had a lot of reverence for “Wired in the 90s.” Y
E-book sales fall below print for first time since 2012
Print book sales are increasing (slightly) while e-book sales continue to fall (sharply), says Nielsen’s Jonathan Stol
These David Bowie stamps are gorgeous
The United Kingdom’s Royal Mail is releasing a limited edition of ten stamps honoring David Bowie, available on March
The angel of history
This is from Walter Benjamin’s essay “On the Concept of History,” but I’m going to use the old translation back when i
Revisiting “Juice,” 25 years later
It’s been a (very!) eventful two weeks, but I still can’t stop thinking about Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib’s terrific apprec
A map of the best dumplings in NYC
The Infatuation has an interactive map of the best places to get soup dumplings, fried dumplings, wontons, and all tha
The story behind Homestar Runner
It feels like a stretch to call this “An Oral History of Homestar Runner” — the author only interviews two people, and
The short history from Emmett Till to here
Emmett Till, 14, was murdered and mutilated for flirting with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, 21, in August 1955. Some
Athletes get older, I’m getting older too
I’m now about the same age as the oldest competitive pro athletes. Correspondingly, I think this year’s Australian Open
Listen to early drafts of Hamilton songs
Lin-Manuel Miranda recently released the early drafts of eight Hamilton songs on Soundcloud. Miranda sings all the par
Personal stories about political objects
Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker have collected a group of writers to tell stories about political objects they own.
Batche
Lisa Ericson’s contemporary chimera
I love these colorfully imaginative drawings of animals by illustrator Lisa Ericson; fish with coral reef tails and
The literary maps of our childhoods
At The Awl, Victoria Johnson fondly remembers the books of her youth that contained extra material. Like maps.
If I r
Five books to change conservative minds
Back in November, former Obama administration official Cass Sunstein came up with a list of five books that conservativ
Hypnotic video of milling metals
I don’t know about you, but I could watch milling machines grinding down metal all day long (and very nearly did). See
Rogue One’s unique storyboard, remixed from 100s of films
In an interview with Yahoo Movies UK, Rogue One editor Colin Goudie shares how he made a full-length story reel for dir
The leisurely pace of light speed
In a 45-minute video called Riding Light, Alphonse Swinehart animates the journey outward from the Sun to Jupiter from
Ernest Hemingway’s cocktail recipe for bad times
In 1937, Ernest Hemingway devised a cocktail called Death in the Gulf Stream for dealing with hard times.
Take a tall
Why Trump and his staff lie
Over at Bloomberg, Tyler Cowen provides an explanation as to why Donald Trump and his staff are lying.
By requiring su
Finding Dory is a movie about disability
I watched Finding Dory with my daughter this weekend. It was our second time through and while I’d enjoyed it when we s
The official org chart of the US government
The United States Government Manual is the official handbook of the US federal government. Here is the org chart for ou
Building the perfect country
My Perfect Country is a BBC radio program that looks at how you would build a perfect country by looking at policies th
Every book Barack Obama recommended during his presidency
President Obama is a reader. NY Times book critic Michiko Kakutani interviewed Obama about his reading just before he l
The grand unified theory of Pixar confirmed?
The Pixar Theory is an idea forwarded by Jon Negroni that all of Pixar’s movies take place in the same universe and are
Abstract is a new Netflix series about design
Abstract is an upcoming documentary series from Netflix that explores the art of design. Each of the eight episodes pr
Honor and Respect: how to address President Obama and Donald Trump
Robert Hickey is the deputy director of The Protocol School of Washington, which provides etiquette and protocol traini
A short animated history of Planned Parenthood
From Now This, a short animated history of Planned Parenthood, the origins of which date back more than 100 years.
No
The Bloody Mary Book
I’m happy and proud to announce that my pal Brian Bartels’ book The Bloody Mary will be out in a couple months.
The B
Lessons learned
Last month, game designer Elizabeth Sampat took to Twitter to share some life lessons she’d learned. Perhaps you’ll fin
The greatest engineering innovations in Formula One racing
Real Engineering takes a look at some of the greatest innovations in F1 racing, including those that have made their w
Graffiti everywhere
Artist Josh Keyes makes paintings that imagine graffiti written on objects not commonly tagged, like satellites, whale
Photos of evolution in action
For his new book, Evolution: A Visual Record, photographer Robert Clark has collected dozens of images that show the v
Cartographic art by Matthew Rangel
Artist Matthew Rangel hikes through what looks like some of the most beautiful terrain in the world and makes these ca
How Louis C.K. tells a joke
Evan Puschak looks at a single joke Louis C.K. tells about playing Monopoly with his daughters and takes it apart to s
The best of Disney cinematography
Jorge Luengo Ruiz has collected what he calls the most beautiful shots in the history of Disney. The scenes are pulled
“Life is a preexisting condition waiting to happen”
I posted earlier about Atul Gawande’s piece in the New Yorker on the importance of incremental care in medicine. One of
Slow and steady wins the healthcare race
In a piece called The Heroism of Incremental Care for the New Yorker, surgeon Atul Gawande argues that our healthcare s
The banned children’s books your kid should read
The American Library Association maintains a list of Frequently Challenged Children’s Books, books that people try to g
The 8 richest men are now as wealthy as half the world’s population
According to a report by Oxfam, the world’s 8 richest men are as wealthy as the poorest half of the world’s population.
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