We got this email (which we've lightly copy edited for easier reading) from a person who worked in Amazon's corporate offices in Seattle from 2007-2009. It's an interesting look at a rather bizarre and driven corporate culture, with high pressure, high turnover, and a strong devotion to The Cult of Jeff Bezos. Take it for what it's worth.
Landscape photographer Donna J. Wan’s imagery is hazy and unsettling, a strange transformation taking place when one understands the perspective of the view.
No one was more excited about the update than Snapchat's target demographic: teens. And no one could have used a warning about the huge in-app changes more than high-school teachers, such as Tracie Schroeder, who tweeted this out yesterday afternoon.
Fieldston and University Heights are in the same borough but worlds apart. How much understanding between their students can a well-told story bring?
There are two reasons why you should care about fractal geometry.
They are in the holds of tractor-trailers, transporting Honey Nut Cheerios and oysters and penicillin and just about any other product you can think of: sweaters, copper wire, lab mice, and so on. They are piled up behind supermarkets, out back, near the loading dock. They are at construction sites, on sidewalks, in the trash, in your neighbor’s basement. They are stacked in warehouses and coursing their way through the bowels of factories.
Ten years ago, a liberal San Francisco suburb was traumatized by a rash of hate crimes against a 17-year-old lesbian. But when it was revealed that the victim herself had staged the attacks, the entire community turned on her and she never spoke about the incidents publicly. Until now.
Canonically the show is set in Toronto, but I’m going to answer the first question primarily from a US perspective.
Going to sports is expensive and the good seats are taken by rich dicks. So why not just get in for free?
This week we learned how the pyramids got built, how to stay sober while drinking, and how to never vomit again.
"Brandicted" is a service that crawls all the most popular branded items on Instagram and helps you obtain them. Now. This instant. Because your needs are desperate.
The best podcasts from 4/25 to 5/1. It's just like a movie, with less to look at.
It's housed in an old computer tower, shoots video in 16 bits and even supports floppy disks. What more could you ask for?
At least 350 people have been killed and many more are missing, the UN says, after a landslide hit the north-east Afghan province of Badakhshan.
Aziz “Zyzz” Shavershian was a black sheep, a controversial figure in the bodybuilding world. His rumored drug use, his obsession with being the object of every woman’s affection, and his sculpted body didn’t just endear him to the Internet’s nerdy white males. They made him a god.
A dead Minke whale that washed ashore in New Jersey suffered some further indignity: someone tagged it with graffiti.
The late introduction of suits made by Under Armour was one in a series of crucial mistakes that led the U.S. speedskating team to its worst performance in 30 years at the Sochi Olympics, according to a new internal assessment.
As U.S. troops continue to pull out of Afghanistan, the country’s booming poppy crops and the opium they yield have reached unprecedented levels that will fuel Taliban insurgents and challenge the government in Kabul.
Michael Sayman is not your average tech entrepreneur. For one thing, he’s 17 years old and taught himself to code using online tutorials he found via Google.
Police enforcing an archaic law have decimated the country’s nightclubs — and unhappy clubbers have responded with dance protests. But a court verdict might end the crackdown.
The death penalty is favored by a majority of Americans, a number that has dropped significantly. But the actual act of executing people occurs far away from the population and the public eye, in small rooms and guarded facilities and witnessed by only a handful of souls.
Photographer David Liittschwager captured the little ecosystem of life contained in a splash of seawater magnified 25 times.
The tiny Boston school has somehow become a breeding ground for NBA front office positions.
This month the World Health Organization will meet to decide whether or not to destroy the last living strains of the variola virus, which causes smallpox. Since the WHO declared the disease eradicated in 1979, the scientific community has debated whether or not to destroy live virus samples, which have been consolidated to laboratories in Russia and the U.S.
Gallup is out with a new poll and accompanying map measuring responses to this question: "Regardless of whether you will move, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move to another state, or would you rather remain in your current state?"
The Identilock makes it as easy to access a firearm as it is to unlock an iPhone.
Pickup artist Vince "Hollywood" Kelvin seems at home under a red spotlight created by the "open" and "sale" signs of competing pizzerias, bars, and souvenir shops on Powell Street. Kelvin, a Los Angeles resident, is here on one of his routine trips to San Francisco, where he leads monthly pickup artist (PUA) boot camps. According to his site, seductioncoaching.com, he teaches men how to "Get laid like a rock star!!!"
We will summarize this lengthy new report from the White House as such: "Yes, yes, the NSA. But you need to worry about the private sector collecting your data, too."
Students hope Title IX complaints will transform colleges’ response to sexual misconduct. So far the process has rarely met their expectations.
Two strategies for betting on the best, most unique horserace we have.
There are translations for Nokia and Motorola, but not iPad or iPhone in China.
Meet the hydrant opposite 152 Forsyth St in Manhattan.
A Navy commando who worked on counter-narcotics missions pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy. He had his wife carry the suitcase of cocaine from the plane — but she left it behind.
We'll give you a hint: he was also a reverend.
For Shamir and his friends, money is tight, boredom is pervasive and trouble is easy to find.
Any adult food critic can give a balanced, articulate critique of a restaurant; yet here at The Bold Italic, we instead continue to take adorable, illiterate four-year-olds to fancy restaurants for the most honest, least useful food reviews in the world.
April in Japan marks the time when new graduates make their first forays into the world of full-time employment and many companies rotate their staff both to keep them on their toes. In May, however, it all comes crashing down.
The true father of hip-hop is Moses. The tyrannical, mercilessly efficient head of several New York City public works organizations, Robert Moses, did more in his fifty-year tenure to shape the physical and cultural conditions required for hip-hop’s birth than any other force of man or nature.
Nineteen used to be more an age for college kids, but anecdotal evidence abounds that private school students are being held back a grade, or redshirted, a whole lot more than they used to be. It's so commonplace now that the parents of prep athletes have come up with a new word, free of any unseemly connotations, to describe the practice. Bluebloods, it turns out, don't "redshirt" their kids; they "reclassify" them.
In a way, Private 1st Class Helmer Panek was a D-Day veteran. Panek died 70 years ago Monday, but not on a Normandy beach under a withering hail of gunfire and explosions. He died practicing for the invasion that turned the tide of the war against the Nazis.
The sultan of oil-rich Brunei has announced the introduction of tough Islamic criminal punishments, pushing ahead with plans that have sparked international condemnation and rare domestic criticism of the fabulously wealthy ruler.
In 1923, a senior radio officer, Frederick Stanley Mockford, in Croydon Airport in London, England was asked to think of one word that would be easy to understand for all pilots and ground staff in the event of an emergency.
Actor David Reale sneaked onto set for a free lunch and became part of teen movie history.
A pile of tires 60 feet high and 150 long caught fire in 2008. It just went out.
Hong Kong-based Paperclip Design Limited has come up with a clever concept that would eliminate the need to jostle for elbowroom on the plane — the Paperclip Armrest makes use of “the 3rd dimension” and doubles the space available with its two-decked design.
Let’s guess that the person in the video is about 1.8 meters tall, which is the average height for a Dutch man. Now, I’m going to track the speed at which the blood and gas mixture shoots out of the whale.
Last week, I sent a Chipotle survey to 100 people. 64 of them responded. This is what they shared.
It's like a magic trick to make a whole section of the earth disappear. A really, really horrifying magic trick.