Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This story was produced in collaboration with Marketplace. If you spent the beginning of February listening to the latest episode of each of the top 100 shows on the iTunes “top podcasts” chart, you’d have heard “Stone Cold” Steve Austin talk about the best way to deliver flowers. You’d have heard the Freakonomics crew spend…
This is dangerous ground for a critic who has seen every episode of HBO’s sword and dragon-fueled fantasy drama Game of Thrones but hasn’t read one page of the books by George R.R. Martin which inspired the series. But as the show winds up its fifth season Sunday, I’m beginning to wonder if some of…
The latest tweak to Facebook’s News Feed algorithm factors in the amount of time users spend viewing stories. Software engineers Ansha Yu and Sami Tas announced the change in a Newsroom post Friday, acknowledging that Facebook users don’t necessarily like, comment on or share every post that is important to them. Yu and Tas added that the…
While the turmoil that rocked bond and currency markets in past weeks has been mostly absent from equities, it won’t be forever, options traders speculate. They’re building hedges against equity swings to levels not seen in eight months, according to contracts tied to the benchmark gauge for U.S. stock volatility. Judging by the most popular…
Britain’s top credit rating is at risk because of Prime Minister David Cameron’s planned European Union referendum, according to Standard & Poor’s. In a statement on Friday, S&P lowered the outlook on the country’s AAA rating to “negative” from “stable.” That means there’s a one-in-three chance of a downgrade in the next two years. It…
You know how when you’re applying to college people always ask you those cliché questions like, “What is a moment that changed your life?” and you think they have to be really big and grand answers like about death or international travel? Then you get older and finally have some real answers, only nobody ever…
I was ten when Jurassic Park roared across the screen in the summer of 1993. I couldn’t wait for it. Both National Geographic and TIME ran dinosaur cover-stories leading up to the release, celebrating the new image of “hot-blooded” saurians set to make box-office records. In the week leading up to the movie, I finally…
New York’s Fifth Avenue, in 1974. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystine via Getty Images) Look at a photo of a street scene from the ’70s or early ’80s, and a lot of things look pretty much the same as today. Most of the buildings are similar. People’s clothes, on the whole, aren’t all that different, give or take a…
Photo Michael Wolff Credit Andrew T. Warman for The New York Times You wrote in December 2013, in a media-criticism column for The Guardian, that no one reads The Times Magazine anymore. So thanks for joining us in this private setting. You know, the first article I ever published was in The Times Magazine, in…
cache hit 2487:single/related:3e7c2e71d16ba707e0e3856fcb052e45 empty On Wednesday, reddit said that it would actively ban subreddits that users reported as being harassing in nature. At the same time, reddit administrators Jessica Moreno, head of community and support; Ellen Pao, interim CEO; and Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of reddit, said that they had shut down five…