Notorious BIG. The young Beastie Boys. These 10-year-old newsboys. If you grew up in a city, you probably spent a fair amount of your adolescence sitting on the stoop. It was where you met your frien...
Chess is a man’s endeavor: More men play it, so more men excel at it. But is the game itself intrinsically gendered? Absolutely, says Asaf Alexander: “Gender and social hierarchy are the key foundati...
As we grow more digitally dependent, many of us don’t use paper as much in our daily lives. But designers seem to have latched onto the material as the new plastic, folding it into everything from st...
If cooking shows are any indication, in order to prove yourself as a genius chef, you have to know some basic chemistry: How to make ice cream in a matter of seconds using liquid nitrogen, and transf...
For our honeymoon, we rented a convertible and cruised up California’s Highway 1. A day into driving, we had the top up and bought sweaters--the sunny coast was colder than we’d anticipated--our splu...
If a book is good, you should be so immersed in it that you don’t care how far you’ve read or how much further there is to go. Does that sound like a good rationalization for the generally terrible n...
We’re all tourists somewhere. And when we’re tourists, something changes. We need to photograph things--the more popular the thing the better. So, as silly as it may be for us to take our own photos ...
Growing up in the Midwest, I always knew that tornadoes were more of a thing for us than other parts of the U.S. But that never really hit home until I viewed this glowing, clawed map of the U.S. by ...
Both iOS and Android have weather widgets built right in, but weather apps have carved out a huge chunk of the app market all the same. So what’s missing in core weather apps? Detailed forecasts? Pro...
Smartphones and tablet computers are radically transforming how we access our shared knowledge sources by keeping us constantly connected to near-infinite volumes of raw data and information. We enjo...
The following is an excerpt from Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success by Ken Segall (Penguin Portfolio). The lump on the table was truly mysterious and held everyone’s rapt atte...
In a meticulously appointed apartment, pets pose a daunting design problem: How to distract attention away from plastic cat-litter boxes, wire cages, and tattered dog beds. Chimère, a French company ...
I’m happy to report that the press release for the Wythe Hotel, a precious new hotel in an old textile factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, drops the adjective “authentic” only once. This shows incredi...
I have a recurring daydream that involves getting rid of every unnecessary object in my apartment. In it, I exist with only an espresso maker, a computer, and a record player, à la this photo of Stev...
I resisted Instagram for a long time, preferring the unpredictability of real, expired disposable cameras. Eventually, I broke down--and it’s gotten too forget all that was lost in the process. My ph...
British artist Arthur Buxton has just completed an exhaustive study on the history of color in fashion. Last time we wrote about Buxton, he was busy reducing the color composition of famous paintings...
“I spend hours online every day consuming huge amount of information. Sometimes it becomes too much and I start to feel overwhelmed. So I wondered if there were ways to turn my experience on the web ...
Hovering a few feet over the Buffalo River in New York, the world’s scariest bridge is not particularly tall. Nor is it unusually long--just 26 feet. It isn’t rickety, either, like those death-trap c...
Emeco is synonymous with its 1006 Navy chair, a handsome seat of lightweight aluminum that the company introduced in 1944 for use at sea. And for decades the Navy was the manufacturer’s only product-...
Launching a tech company has changed since the last dotcom bubble. These days, you don’t even need an idea anymore to catch the attention of the Silicon Valley in-crowd; simply being part of the righ...
It seems like we hear about patent lawsuits and settlements every day, but it wasn’t until right now that I understood just how bad things were. This infographic by Visual.ly shows us that everyone r...
I’ve been staring at the pictures for far too long now. Sometimes I see an old WWI plane. Other times, I’m sure it’s a vintage dragster. Either way, the wFoil 18 Albatross is a gorgeous racer that li...
In recent years, the aesthetic of UIs has followed a dominant ideology that attempts to replicate the physical world. With a handful of software/product updates and new releases in the last few month...
In New York City, restaurants are required to post letter grades indicating their adherence to sanitary practices. That’s helpful information. You may not know if the staff members really do wash the...
Walk into the new 110 Prince Street location of Spanish footwear company Camper, and you won’t see any shoes. Where you might expect to find products displayed--along the parti-wall--there’s only a g...
Art was created pretty much the same way for millennia: Grab something that makes a mark and go to town on a wall or piece of paper. In the 19th century, though, artists were presented with a plethor...
Catenary (from the Latin catena, or chain) is the name given to the curve formed when you hang a piece of chain from two points. That’s exactly the process pre-modern builders used to determine the a...
We’ve been able to customize products for a while, from Levi’s that are perfectly sculpted to our posteriors to Timbuk2 bags in our own triad of colors, and the result is always "custom" but ...
Some folks just can’t get out of bed until the scent of freshly brewed java comes wafting in from the kitchen, but Raúl Laurí’s Decafe fixtures achieve the same aromatic effect on their own, with or ...
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