A year’s worth of sexist encounters while carving pumpkins.
In a new spin on classic Halloween cinema, filmmaker Sophy Romvari and a friend share stories of creepy encounters with men.
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"This is the play."
In an interview, Trump says he intends to sign an executive order to change how the 14th Amendment is applied and end birthright citizenship. Expect the courts to decide whether this is unconstitutional. 1/29 With the announcement it will deploy troops to the US-Mexico border, the US military
Performing the Machine
With a set of strings attached to a 3D printer, David McCallum manipulates the printer's sounds, playing it like an instrument. From his description of the project: Six "strings" are stroked to trigger gestures from the printer, and the strength of the stroke affects the expression
Turn it off and on again.
An incomplete list of the far-right attackers Trump has inspired since 2015. 1/17 A survey of bombing suspect Cesar Sayoc's tweets answers many of the questions raised by the stickers on his van. 2/17 The recent market tumble isn’t a crash: "It’s
Can absolute idiocy be good for diversity?
The manhunt for the sender(s) of bombs to Trump critics focuses on South Florida. 1/20 Meanwhile the FBI confirms an 11th package was addressed to Senator Booker. 2/20 The good news about Trump using an iPhone that's actively being tapped by China: he's
The origin of quantam mechanics explained briefly.
The origin of quantam mechanics explained in less than five minutes, with nice drawings. The German government asked the theoretical physicist Max Planck: how can lightbulbs be made more efficient? ... Working backwards from his data in ‘an act of despair’, Planck found that light wasn’t emitted continuously, but rather
Devastatingly effective.
More critics of President Trump receive explosive devices in the mail. 1/18 Despite his penchant for celebrating and inciting violence against his enemies, Trump presents himself as healer-in-chief and blames the media. 2/18 Trump insists on using an unprotected iPhone to call friends. China and Russia
This is the world's largest model railway
Inspired by this musing essay on why people love to see human lives in miniature, here's a tour of Hamburg's Miniatur Wunderland, the world's largest model railway, aka the "ultimate small continent."
He wanted to say "poor execution."
Two days after a suspected explosive device was found near George Soros's home, other potential devices that appear related have been sent to the homes of the Clintons and Obamas and CNN's New York offices. This story is developing. 1/23 A seventh child has died
Simply beautiful.
Turkey’s Erdogan says Khashoggi’s murder was a premeditated, meticulously planned political operation by Saudi Arabia. 1/23 A brief explanation of “post-Salafi,” an emerging, amorphous category of Muslim thought derived partly from Wahhabism. 2/23 President Trump and the Republicans settle on fear and falsehoods for their