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Streetscapes | Readers’ Questions A view of the co-op at 66 Court Street in Brooklyn in 1939 and today. The building, designed by Abraham J. Simberg, was also…

First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017). Against the muted winter lawn, a minister attempts to hoist a fallen gravestone into the vertical position. This stark…

This probably isn’t something a professor should be telling you, but I walk into class at the beginning of every semester feeling just as anxious as I did more…

An iconic 1970s soundsystem lives on inside a Coney Island attraction. Vivian Host catches up with sound engineer Dan Prosseda about the magical speaker stacks…

Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malick’s vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema.

Jamie Kitman’s Octane Film Cars specializes in finding the rides that set period films and TV shows in time

Charles Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, discovered a method of calculating determinants now known variously as the method of contractants,…

“You had reached the point where one drink was too many and a hundred not enough.” Charles Jackson’s best-selling 1944 novel The Lost Weekend portrayed the…

When it comes to Russian filmmakers, the first names that come to nearly everyone's mind are Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein. Both were exceptional, and…

Mathematicians often see more than cold logic in symbols and numbers. They see the sublime

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It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky supertalls, is Britain next?

Epicgenius / the Historic Districts Council via Wikimedia Commons Free Upper West Side News, Delivered To Your Inbox Robert A.M. Stern, the architect whose work…

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime

One of Houston’s most influential architects loved to hate the Bayou City.

Cake slices, sundaes, morning buns, noodles and shakes — all $20 or under — for your immediate consumption.

Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they do.

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.

As live-betting and “prop bets” explode, athletes say they face more threats from fans than ever.

I was terrified of the Old Elephant King in “The Story of Babar.” My daughter was freaked out by “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Then came my niece.

The scripted series centered around the gambling scandal of MLB star Shohei Ohtani is facing hurdles trying to find a buyer.

architecture decays

New Yorker writers and editors write a list of where they shop for books in the Big Apple, including Books Are Magic, Printed Matter, and McNally Jackson.

Quantum advantage may not be here yet, but there is hope.

Our latest quantum breakthrough, Quantum Echoes, offers a path toward unprecedented scientific discoveries and analysis.

WIRED recently demonstrated how to cheat at poker by hacking the Deckmate 2 card shufflers used in casinos. The mob was allegedly using the same trick to fleece victims for millions.

As mentioned in the WSJ about a more recent book on the same tower

In “the trial of the century,” a Houston socialite was accused of plotting her husband's murder—and of having an affair with her nephew. But Candace Mossler was only getting started.

Thomas Beller writes about Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the art-house movie theatre on New York’s Upper West Side that closed earlier this year.

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

Design shortcuts meant to make a new plane seem like an old, familiar one are to blame

A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.

Run a bunch of Claude Codes in Parallel. By Melty Labs.

PSA, the biggest authenticator of trading cards, has for years had a major loophole that left counterfeit cards appearing to be legitimate just because they had

Boekie Woekie is an artists’-run bookshop and gallery in Amsterdam that was founded in 1986 by a group of six artists. Soon Henriëtte van Egten (Dutch)…

By Oliver Nolan Little

- Show for Aug 25, 2013: Henry Jaglom on Orson Welles. It’s tempting, if you’re tempted by clichés, to call Orson Welles “larger than life.” But he was after all an ordinary mortal, however...

Challenged British Counterfeiting - A blog post from The Ephemera Society of America. Marbled edge paper was used to reduce counterfeiting

Discover the epic match between Go master Lee Sedol and AI AlphaGo. Explore how this historic confrontation transformed the world of Go and AI advancements.

The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This is a practical guide on how to do them yourself.

Elif Batuman examines a new collection of Vladimir Nabokov’s scientific drawings of butterflies, published by Yale University Press as “Fine Lines.”

They’ve been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century. But in just three years of war in Ukraine, tanks have evolved.