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“A List of Predictions Made in 1923 About 2023 🧵”

In 1923, experts took a stab at making predictions about what life would be like in 100 years. These predictions included four-hour workdays, women with shaved heads, and a complete lack of ugly pe…

The lower house of Congress can neither convene nor adjourn.

At the annual NFL Scouting Combine, Black football players’ every movement is measured, quantified, and appraised. The event’s college-aged men are at the heart of football’s billion-dollar industry.

The sharpest opinions on the debate from around the web

Today on TAP: The GOP’s ‘We can’t even convene’ circus commences

There was an article last year in the New York Times about a California start-up called Inversion that wants to “speed delivery of important items by storing them in orbit.” [Image: Collage by BLDG…

A California start-up company believes it can one day speed delivery of important items by storing them in orbit.

Quality deterioration, not factored into inflation statistics, means that we spend the same amount for inferior products.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning multimedia feature about an avalanche in Washington State changed the way The New York Times approaches storytelling.

Mouse Print exposes the strings and catches in advertising fine print.

Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight

It's slow, expensive, the engineering is mostly port-a-potty chemistry, and the best-case outcome is that thirty years from now we’ll get to watch someone remotely operate a soil scoop from Mars instead of Pasadena

Millionaire survivalist nutjob builds bunker for the helter skelter race war. Non-millionaire survivalist nutjob with AR-15 thinks, "I would like to live in that bunker, so I will just murder the family in their sleep and move in." Zillow: 1266 Willis Branch Rd, Richmond, KY 40475. $6,500,000. NYT: "My feelings were that we were going to have civil unrest because there was so much going on ...

I don't always agree with the president, but this year wasn't without accomplishment for his administration.

When the residents of Pripyat had to flee the terrifying explosion of Chernobyl’s number 4 reactor, they were forced to leave their pets behind. Decades later, the descendants of their dogs h…

Kevin Drum offers a response to a recent meta-study on the link between lead and violence, blogged by me here. I’ll take this moment to explain why the lead-violence connection never has sat that well with me. Let’s say we are trying to explain why 2022 America is richer than the Stone Age.  We could […]

A wave of job cuts has sent the home market reeling in neighbourhoods where waves of tech professionals – flush with high salaries and housing perks – drove prices upwards in recent years.

Tesla’s accused of breaking US labor laws yet again.

I thought the shaving off of the tenths of a cent or whatever Richard Pryor’s character in Superman III did is a lot more clever than any of the follow-ons, but a 28-year-old software program…

Xi Jinping said his country and Putin’s Russia are friends with “no limits.” The reality is more complicated.