The iPhone has become an integral part of our lives, to the point that most of us do not even think about it as a special object anymore. We use it for everything from scouring the web to communicating with… Read More ›
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How the airport came to embody our national psychosis
In 1962, New York’s Idlewild Airport inaugurated Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center, a swooping concrete-and-glass icon of jet-age glamor. The building incarnated an idea of air travel’s allure that lingered like a contrail in the national imagination. In his 2015… Read More ›
Not every Apple Watch owner is a triathlete
The Apple Watch is a capable fitness device which has been lauded by many for helping them move more and be more aware of they general activity levels. I felt this way for some time, but then decided that I… Read More ›
Tornado Black
An operation would solve the issue, but Black said she cannot afford to pay for it. The money she earns from giving tennis lessons is not enough because she is also helping to support her mother and sister, Hurricane Tyra… Read More ›
Atomic City
Few Americans know their nation’s nuclear history. In 1946, after the bombing of Hiroshima showed that the atom could destroy a city, Congress created the Atomic Energy Commission to show it could also generate electricity. Reactors sprang from the sage… Read More ›
Questioning evolution
Many see the rejection of evolutionary science as a marker of religiosity or hard-line conservativism. There is a widespread assumption that religious people will find it hard to reconcile evolutionary science, and by extension science as a whole, with their… Read More ›
Why I still wear the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch is the last watch most of us will ever wear. Watches, as a fashion statement and a tool, are fading and things like the Apple Watch are the last vestige of these strange objects that William Gibson… Read More ›
How to discipline kids
“The best you can shoot for is influence, not control,” Green told Business Insider. “And that means your role is more of a partner than that of lord and master.” More at Business Insider. I suppose it depends on… Read More ›
We’ve predicted and broken human population limits for centuries
Worries about population expansion resurfaced with World War I. “Population pressure is always a major cause of war,” remarked biologist Raymond Pearl in his 1925 book The Biology of Population Growth. As head statistician for the U.S. Food Administration during… Read More ›
After Generation Z comes Generation Alpha
A survey of Canadian Millennials. I imagine it’s pretty much the same worldwide. And it’ll be more so for later Generations. . That got me looking at what the various generations are and found this: Generation Name Births Start Births… Read More ›
