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In his 1846 essay “The Present Age,” Søren Kierkegaard decried the widespread tendency of the time—which he summed up as an age “without passion”—to “transform daring and enthusiasm into a feat of skill.” I’m not sure that these observations apply…
Subscribe » Photo Booth The Extreme Cyclists of the Navajo Nation For some Navajo, cycling offers a way to connect with their landscape and heritage. Photographs by Cait Oppermann Text by Philip Gourevitch Audio by Jamie York July 28, 2018…
On an alarmingly regular basis, Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle company Goop publishes new morsels of health bullshit. And as the Goop website has emerged as a reliably laughable source of pseudoscience, a small army of journalists (myself included), doctors, researchers, and…
On Friday, July 27, the full moon will pass through the shadow of the Earth for 103 minutes. It will be the longest “blood moon” lunar eclipse of the century, as the moon turns red in the shadow of the…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Twitter stocks dropped 21 percent on Friday after the US social network reported user negative growth following its decision to remove fake accounts, according to market observers. The price of a Twitter stock was at $34.13, which translated…
A scandal broke out earlier this week over the popular microblogging company’s de facto censorship of Republican politicians, whose names often wouldn’t appear in Twitter’s search function. President Trump vowed to “look into” what he dubbed a “discriminatory and illegal…
