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President Obama said in a video released Thursday that he would propose a plan to make the first two years of community college free during a speech in Tennessee scheduled for Friday. (The White House/YouTube) President Obama on Friday will propose making community college tuition-free for “responsible students,” launching what officials described as an ambitious…
Real real estate prices, visualized NYC’s Housing Cost Myth — re:form — Medium.
On Leaving New York byRoland Li I was a child of the suburbs. Most of my high school life narrowed to a mile-long stretch of Boston Post Road, trudging to class. Our nocturnal highlight was Taco Bell, which was open until 1 a.m. The city was a faint impression of stately Art Deco landmarks and…
Endgame is going to be a fascinating project in collective storytelling. The project started as Endgame: The Calling, a novel published in October from best-selling (and controversial) author James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton. It is the first of three books. Before the second novel comes out, Google’s Niantic Labs division will launch its Endgame mobile game. Much…
FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver’s newly launched website at ESPN, uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about politics, science, economics, lifestyle, and sports. The Worst Board Games Ever Invented | FiveThirtyEight.
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Jan 7 We complain all the time about how today’s popular country music pretty much all sounds the same, but is this really true from a technical standpoint? That is what one enterprising Audiophile and songwriter set out to illustrate by making a mashup of some of Bro-Country’s biggest singles over the last couple of…
Tom Francis used to write for PC Gamer, and then he decided to make his own game. The problem was that he had very little idea of how to actually do that. He started from scratch, and the result was Gunpoint, a successful title “about rewiring things and punching people.” He’s now working on a…
Was The Times cowardly and lacking in journalistic solidarity when it decided not to publish the images from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that precipitated the execution of French journalists? Some readers I’ve heard from certainly think so. Evan Levine of New York City wrote: “I just wanted to register my extreme disappointment at…
Some bearded dudes, courtesy Bristlr. Kershaw, the creator of the dating site, is third from right. (Bristlr) It’s probably one of the most annoying, and most inevitable, aspects of online dating: No matter who you are or what site you use, you’re bound to get a boatload of generic messages that look like they were…