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Ireland has just repealed thousands of antiquated laws, including talking smack about Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. I woke up this morning at my home in Ireland and cooked myself a big bowl of oatmeal. I then went outside and shouted at the top of my voice, “Anne Boleyn is a whore and King Henry…
This question originally appeared on Quora: What kind of jobs do software engineers who earn $500k per year do? Answer by Amin Ariana, Innovation Growth Engineer. Disclosure: I’m an ex-Googler. This answer does not represent the company. The premise of the question is somewhat misguided in that there are no $500,000 guaranteed “earnings” out there…
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1. When I was 18, while hiking with a friend in Colorado, I tried to impress him by climbing up a rock. A minute later, realizing I was stuck, I called down to him, near tears. “You’re O.K.,” he said, spreading his arms. “Jump. I’ll catch you.” So I jumped. Had I been alone, without…
Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. This is the fifth installment of Going Off, a series of Anxiety posts chronicling the author’s attempt to wean off the medications she takes for depression, anxiety and insomnia. • Last night at the karaoke place, I could tell that the bartender was happy. It…
Police arrested a health teacher from a tony Manhattan prep school today for allegedly having sex with a drunk 16-year-old in the bathroom of Lit Lounge in the East Village. According to the Daily News, David Azurmendi, 34, had taught for the last three years at Léman Manhattan Preparatory School, where New York’s elite pay…
Lantern slide of the New York Public Library (via NYPL) As the debate continues over the renovation of the main branch of the New York Public Library — a design by Norman Foster that would radically overhaul the stacks and other features of the historic Beaux-Arts building — we are looking at some of the city’s less…
Whole Foods may be toast. Granted, it’s toast made from pricey, gluten-free, organic honey oat bread. But toast nonetheless. Shares of Whole Foods (WFM) plunged more than 10% Thursday after the high-end natural grocery chain reported sales and profits that missed analysts’ forecasts. Its outlook did not impress investors either. Whole Foods has been cutting…
Surveillance video showed Officer Timothy Loehmann, who is white, hopping out of a police cruiser and immediately firing two shots at Tamir Rice, 12, killing him at close range. Before the shooting, Tamir, who was black, had been using a fake gun that looked strikingly like the real thing. The Videos That Are Putting Race…
What if that Human League song were only ‘you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar’? File under “so dumb it’s genius.” You Tuber svantana has reduced the lyrical content of Human League’s 1981 hit “Don’t You Want Me” to the catchiest and, perhaps, most thematically important line: “You were working as a…