The Symmetry and Chaos of the World’s Megacities

Ryan Koopmans was planning to attend architecture school after earning his bachelor's degree around a decade ago from the University of British Columbia. But while working on his application portfolio, which included a photography component, the Dutch-born Canadian realized that he was more interested in shooting buildings than designing them. Today, Koopmans is an award-winning…

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Knives Made of Frozen Feces Are Kinda Crappy

Famed anthropologist Wade Davis inadvertently created an academic urban legend with his account of an elderly Inuit man in the 1950s who fashioned a knife out of his own frozen feces and vanished into the Arctic. That's the conclusion of a new study by experimental anthropologists at Kent State University, who fashioned their own blades…

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Trump’s Emissions Fight, Amazon’s EVs, and Other Car News This Week

Come with us, back to 2003, when a little show called The OC debuted on the WB and each episode began with the refrain: “California here we come / Right back where we started from / California (California) / Here we come!” Can you hear it, that theme song?We imagine President Donald Trump whistled something…

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A Washington Whistle-Blower Tops This Week’s Internet News Roundup

There's no getting around it, it's been a big week. One that saw President Donald Trump hint at military action after an attack on a Saudi Arabian oil field, and also argue that he can't be criminally investigated over his refusal to share his tax records; a week that saw the British government go to…

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Kodak Is Ready for an Instant Camera Comeback

Photography has always been sold as a way to preserve memories. But for most of us that's probably no longer really true. Photography today is now less about saving memories and more about documenting the moment, moments that float by as we thumb through Instagram or Facebook.Photos as printable memories sometimes feels like an outdated…

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10 Best iPhone Accessories for 2019 (iPhone 11, 11 Pro)

Another year, another iPhone. This time around, you have your pick of the iPhone 11 or the premium iPhone 11 Pro. We break down all your choices in our iPhone buying guide, but if you want to get the most out of your shiny slab of glass and metal, you'll need some accessories. From wireless…

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Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

At the age of 22, when I entered the American intelligence community, I didn't have any politics. Instead, like most young people, I had solid convictions that I refused to accept weren't truly mine but rather a contradictory cluster of inherited principles. My mind was a mash-up of the values I was raised with and…

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Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Terrace House’ is still the most soothing reality show around

“Terrace House” (a co-production between Netflix and Fuji Television) is back, and it hasn’t changed much since we reviewed it last year. As with previous seasons, “Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020”…

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