A short profile of Finnish freediver Johanna Nordblad, who holds the world record for a 50-meter dive under ice. Brings to mind Marten Lange’s photographs of crows. ↩︎ posted Dec. 2, 2016 With Dead Bookstore, artist Ben Pieratt deconstructs old books and puts together interesting pairings and collages. He
The student journalist who spoke with Abdul Razak Ali Artan thought he’d found the perfect human interest story: a young, intellectual Muslim man who successfully transferred to a better school, only to find nowhere to pray at one of the nation’s largest universities. / issuu.com By the end
The case for calling bullshit every time a news anchor cites "FBI crime statistics"—that data is voluntarily supplied by police departments and is often (if not always) incomplete.
Optimistically, the web is like 1970s NYC Which is to say, it’s a place where creativity flourishes amidst disorder. But pessimistically, it’s a failed state, where no central government means crime goes unpunished and key services (trash, spam) aren’t attended to. Here are five futures for the
The force inside the force San Francisco’s police union is the sole reactionary conservative political voice in a city where the political spectrum ranges from progressive to liberal. ↩︎ posted Dec. 1, 2016 When Terrence M. Cunningham, the chief of police in Wellesley, Mass., and president of America’s largest
“With her face unpainted, it’s almost as if Clinton is returning to an earlier iteration, reclaiming her identity as the accomplished, aggressive lawyer Hillary Rodham, who pursued success while rejecting the rules put forth by the patriarchy.” For women in the public eye, makeup is never really “just makeup”
When we hear "White House" and "augmented reality," we know what's coming, we steer the other way, we're still raw. Except this isn't about Trump: the Obama White House just released an app. If users open it and point the
Journalist Barrett Brown is free, but will continue to pay Journalist Barrett Brown was released from a Texas federal prison yesterday after serving over four years behind bars. Brown was convicted after taking a plea bargain that admitted a role in the alleged hack of Stratfor—which he had nothing
A very short film about David Cerny's twitchy 2014 monument to Franz Kafka's head—more relevant in the Trump era than ever before.
Approximately 204 million pounds of turkey were expected to be discarded this Thanksgiving, which could cost the country’s sanitation departments up to $293 million. / foodandwine.com To accompany your Wednesday morning beverages, if reading about the fate of journalism under Trump appeals to your mood. (If not, here’s
