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The next big thing isn’t a clever gadget or miracle drug—it’s a way of life: not a breakthrough invention but a social innovation. And it’s not so much a beginning as it as a series of endings. Rising numbers of young people are now deciding to do everything their parents didn’t. They’re eschewing cultural and…
Start Article Post Content Just imagine what a Michael Bloomberg presidency could mean to a people tired of politics, yearning for leadership and hopeful for a better tomorrow. And by that I mean the employees of Bloomberg Media, not the United States of America. While New York City’s former mayor had jaws dropping Saturday when…
Doom needs guns. It needs hellish landscapes and brutal, uncaring enemies. The game’s legacy has been built on its level design, so it’s important the game avoids a linear path from one battle to the next. Doom is an uncompromising and violent experience, and if you don’t want that? There’s plenty of other stuff to…
On today’s episode of Fox & Friends, a bunch of white people gathered to, among things, lambast Beyoncé’s Super Bowl performance via the kind of partial assessment and narrow interpretation that’s crucial to the conservative critical rubric. One of these white people was former mayor of New York and failed Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. Setting…
Superman should be invincible. Since his car-smashing debut in 1938, he’s starred in at least one regular monthly comic, three blockbuster films, and four television shows. His crest is recognized across the globe, his supporting cast is legendary, and anybody even vaguely familiar with comics can recount the broad strokes of his origin. (The writer…
The closing of Grantland, ESPN’s sports and culture site, has been the subject of a tremendous amount of coverage and speculation since it was announced Oct. 30. The affection many had for the site resulted in a predictable outpouring of anger from the Web site’s readers, not to mention a number of fond farewells from…
Nan Palmero/FlickrLinkedIn’s stock had its worst day ever. Shares cratered by as much as 44% in trading on Friday after the company reported a quarterly loss on Thursday, with guidance that was weaker than expected. It was the worst decline ever for the stock and has erased about $10 billion of the company’s value. The social…
For four glorious hours, Moe’s Southwest Grill was the burrito king. While every Chipotle in the country closed its doors Monday from 11 AM to 3 PM for a company-wide food safety meeting in response to its recent E. coli outbreaks, the smaller, queso-serving casual Mexican chain celebrated its day in the limelight. While Chipotle…
Do you ever listen to electronic music and think, “You know what would make this better? Star Wars samples!” You’re not alone, apparently: legendary producer Rick Rubin is curating a new EDM compilation called Star Wars Headspace, a sort of companion piece for the December’s The Force Awakens in which a dozen popular producers monkey…
If you were watching last Saturday’s debates, you might be surprised at the result of this week’s Iowa caucus. With Donald Trump pulling out of the last round of debates, pundits suggested that it would give Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a chance to cement his status as a new front-runner. But his performance in the Fox…