ME: I’m going to have to get up and pee soon. Not right now though.
[Moments later a 15-pound cat climbs up and settles in to sleep on my lap.]
A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a “GitHub for data”
A service called “Gretel” lets developers share data sets for building applications the way GitHub lets them share code.
You don’t know Esther Williams
Williams starred in midcentury movies featuring her water dancing and synchronized swimming. She presented an image of delicate, wholesome femininity.
In reality she was a tough athlete, who used her body as fiercely as any Hollywood stuntman and fended off sexual harassment from studio moguls and co-stars.
She had four unhappy marriages, dropped acid, and made a comeback when she was in her 60s.
Two stories about Americans who fled in search of better lives.
While millions of people have come to America to make a fresh start, sometimes the flow is in the other direction.
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
While politicians and pundits say we need to preserve the American nuclear family, it’s extended families that have held society together and supported individuals for generations.
David Brooks digs deep into history and anthropology, and describes how people today are building families that aren’t related by birth. Which turns out to be even older than what we usually think of as extended families
When a popular genre writer dies, should their characters die with them?
After mystery writer Robert B. Parker’s unexpected death in 2010, his family and estate hired a Southerner, Ace Atkins, to continue writing novels featuring Parker’s Boston detective, Spenser
To cynics, the decision to carry on Parker’s novels appeared unseemly or, even worse, an act of literary grave robbing that threatened the author’s reputation. But those people didn’t know Robert B. Parker, a man who, when asked how his books would be viewed in 50 years, replied: “Don’t know, don’t care.” He was proud of his work, but he mainly saw writing as a means of providing a comfortable life for his family.
Most of the environmental impact comes from manufacture, rather than disposal, say skeptics of the bans.
Nicole Najafi went on a date with every Democratic Presidential candidate so you don’t have to. Funny.
