I arrived at Zuccotti Park for the first time last Friday night as a group of drummers on the east side of the park were performing a collective improvisation—including a guy on a real drum set. It was amusing, but not memorable. I walked into the camp, and soon
When al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone attack late last month, friends and colleagues were left to mourn a man of generosity, humility, and an amazing porno collection.
* Photos from the weekend's global Occupy Wall Street protests. * Algorithms, not censorship, prevent the #occupy movement from trending on Twitter. * Gilad Shalit: "I haven't seen people in a long time." * Apple vs. Facebook vs. Google vs. Amazon—for the future of the innovation economy.
* Oldie but goodie: an honest in-flight talk, explaining why, for example, phones are banned. * Hostility not found in Cairo, but plenty of violence against women. * Number of women giving birth up five percent on Valentine's Day, down 11 percent on Halloween. * Day at the Congress for Aesthetic
It’s rare to find a word with the versatility of crush: It is a verb, a noun, a delicious soft drink; it is practically onomatopoeia. It’s a gratifying word, and there’s an entire universe of meaning inside its five letters. It is as soft and as hard
A series of beach portraits from Ramos, an artificial saltwater lake surrounded by more than a dozen of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas—an oasis in one of the city's poorest areas.
* Occupy Wall Street march in Rome hijacked by rioters; bomb injures 100. * Life of Generation G-Chat. * Jessa Crispin on the sauicier side of capitalism: the desire and passion that drives hoarding. * Hotel employee brings in brass band to help him quit his job. * Charts demonstrate what Occupy Wall Street
* Leaked Saudi demands for U.S. to attack Iran may have led to recent plot. * U.S. rushing contractors to Libya to secure anti-aircraft missiles. * U.S. troops deployed in central Africa to hunt down Lord's Resistance Army leaders. * How bankers see OWS. * Six years and $49
* Press secretary reveals Putin's PR escapades are mostly his own doing. * Romney's foreign policy ideas may not set the world on fire—good!—but he seems in denial about spending. * Arab world's reliance on exploiting natural resources has prevented private industry from developing. * One
One of the most endearing things about old-fashioned maps is how wrong they can be. Sometimes maps are so divorced from reality that we wouldn’t know what they were without the labels and legends. And without any of the usual metadata, could you figure out what a map
