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In our November cover story, Taylor Swift talks to Chuck Klosterman about whether or not she really hates Katy Perry

Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial actors has been documenting his life and craft through film. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster films like Top Gun & Batman. This raw and wildly original documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled look at what it means to be an artist.

Sometimes a phrase someone uses can strike at the core of your own identity. It touches on a piece of yourself that you couldn't articula...

Tugging on the thread of digital bricolage brought me to a wonderful paper by Seymour Papert & Sherry Turkle called "Epistemological Plur...

Every single podcast feed I’m subscribed to.

We’re not looking for answers. We’re looking for logic.

The universe is being built half an hour outside London. About a dozen game developers are working on it.

DJs had to fight misinformation and isolation.

In the late 2000s I was sleeping with all of my friends. This didn’t make me special; we were young in one of the several ways people move to cities like New York in order to be young. We were in general not doing much with our lives and so we did what generation after generation of young people have done in order to combat that particular circumstance: We tried to generate enough sex drama amongst ourselves that we didn’t have to notice that we weren’t doing much of anything, that things were harder than they were promised to be, that we had very little money and that everyone else seemed ...

The remarkable story of the woman who showed us all how to stare down death: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

A curated list of sites with an extra bit of fun.

“This is a work of criticism. If it were literary criticism, everyone would immediately understand the underlying purpose is positive. A critic of literature examines a work, analyzing its features, evaluating its qualities, seeking a deeper appreciation that might be useful to other readers of the same text. In a similar way, critics of music, […]

Procedurally generated blackout poetry. Contribute to mkremins/blackout development by creating an account on GitHub.

The joy of the free-diver, the peace of the loon, the patience of the turtle, and a touch of the ingenuity and panache of the great sea explorers (a Jacques Cousteau or a Captain Nemo). Tending my depths, plunging into seas uncharted, dipping into mysterious pools and emerging to share the treasures and tales I find there (and perhaps hiding a few treasure maps of my own).

Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk is an hour long, it offers much more insight into the topic, and I hope you’ll give it a look.

It's a one-of-a-kind geological artifact. What's it worth? $100 million—or nothing.

My problems were never ones of scarcity. I suffered from abundance.

It’s time to say what we said 20 years ago when a president’s character was revealed for what it was.

The telegram was a breakthrough in communication technology, which Vannevar Bush imagined could evolve in unprecedented ways.

Looking for connections in 2018

One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career. Across from him was Mark Zuckerberg. With his characteristic geeky excitement, Zuckerberg described the promising initial test flight of Aquila, a drone with a wingspan larger than […]

If a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.

On April 3, the day The Outline was shut down and its editorial staff let go, my coworkers and I received hundreds of messages in public and private that went a long way toward making me feel better about suddenly losing my job during a pandemic. Weirdly, one of the sentiments that made me feel […]

Paid groups, bespoke social networks, and the meaning of community for internet-native businesses.

The internet’s quintessential, paradoxical message is “Only Connect.”

An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.

When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists with powerful computers set out to model and manipulate American voters. Sound familiar?

For now, Scroll has produced barely any revenue for its partners, a slow uptake that has made some media executives question how much to promote it on their sites

Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.

How a controversial rationalist blogger became a mascot and martyr in a struggle against the New York Times.