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Finding the Boston Bombers: What's Happened Up to Now

For two days after the Boston Marathon bombing, the news media was so starved for public developments in the investigation that many outlets took to inventing breaking news. But in the last 12 hours, things have moved so quickly in the hunt for the bombers -- complete with a wild night full of shoot ... More >>

At Least Our Robot Overlords Will Get Us Drunk

They may not have the same handsome waistcoats or knowledge of hard shake theory as their human counterparts, but robot bartenders can make up for what they lack in style with, hmm, with a digital design system that "monitors alcohol consumption and blood alcohol levels by inputting basic physical d ... More >>

Pretty Chill: Glowing Ice Cubes Tell You When It's Time to Stop Drinking

Last week, everyone was excited about a fork that helped curb eating habits by flickering based on the speed of bites. Now, smarty pants product designer, Dhairya Dand, has invented "Cheers", glow-in-the-dark "ice" cubes that change colors based on a person's alcohol consumption.

Fed Pursuit of Hacktivist Aaron Swartz vs. Pursuit of Big Banks Highlights Tragic Imbalance

The theft of a few million articles from academic journals can carry a sentence of 35 years in prison. Meanwhile, big banks can rig interest rates affecting the entire global economic system, launder money for international drug cartels, illegally foreclose on the homes of millions of Americans, an ... More >>

WAR GAMES

MOMI GETS A NEW ARCADE

GRIND TIME

GZA and Killer Mike take on Irving Plaza

Fracking: Boom or Doom

America's hydraulic fracturing gold rush portends the greatest environmental disaster of a generation

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Goodbye Ketchup Woes: MIT Introduces Non-Stick Condiment Bottle Coating

Ketchup bottles can get a little annoying. You're always struggling to shake the stuff out and even plastic squeeze bottles won't do the trick sometimes. Some guys over at MIT have it all figured out. They've created LiquiGlide, a "super slippery" coating that will make stuff like ketchup and mayo ... More >>

Spring Guide 2012: Granta Eyes the African Short Story

Continental rift

Mayor Bloomberg: 'Double the Class Size With a Better Teacher Is a Good Deal for the Students'

Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday at a conference at MIT that if he had it his way, he'd slash half the teaching staff of city schools. CBS doesn't have a whole lot of context for the quote, but read it and weep: "If I had the ability to just design the system and say ex cathedra this is what we're g ... More >>

Bloomberg Claims NYPD "7th Biggest Army in World" ... Um, That's Totally Wrong

In the annals of political rhetoric, there are lies, damn lies and exaggeration. Well, according to Politicker NY, Mayor Bloomberg dropped himself into the third category during a speech at MIT last night, when he claimed, "I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the wor ... More >>

In Search of God: L.A. Party Girl Travels to India, Asks Life's Big Questions

Why Do Cholos Look So Spic & Span?

Meat Prices Could Shoot Up 7 Percent This Year; Upscale Supermarkets Hit China

The floods, droughts, storms and tornadoes that hit the United States in April and May could mean a severe spike in food prices, including a 7 percent increase in the price of meat over the next year. [NPR] Deliverymen for Chinese restaurants are increasingly using electric bicycles--much to the ch ... More >>

Peter Thiel Announces 2011 '20 Under 20' Fellows, but Why So Few Women?

​Meet Peter Thiel's Fellows: a handsome selection of the finest innovators under 20 years old. And by handsome, we mean 18 of them are boys, two of them are girls. But is anyone really that surprised of the ratio? Probably not. (Back to that later). Thiel's 20 Under 20 were selected based on a ... More >>

Bradley Manning Charged With 'Aiding the Enemy'

​U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, 23, who has been locked in solitary confinement for ten months, under conditions that some argue count as torture, has been hit with 22 military charges for his involvement in allegedly passing secret U.S. diplomatic cables to Julian Assange's WikiLeaks organizat ... More >>

One-Size-Fits-All '80s Nostalgia in Take Me Home Tonight

Your Week In Nightlife, Starring Blaqstarr, Kode9, Classixx, And Nomi Ruiz

​It is freezing outside, there's no doubt about that. And while we know it's almost impossible to leave the comfort of your toasty apartment, the weekend's dance schedule demands it. A mix of disco, Latin grooves, African drums, dub wars, and dubstep awaits, alongside a club-king-turned-r&b-si ... More >>

Sadness Is Contagious, But Don't Worry: That Case of the Discontents Will Only Last You Five Years or So

Hang in there for a few more years, Chris.​Not only is divorce potentially contagious, so are feelings. Which explains why when you're around someone who bitches and moans all the time, you want to start bitching and moaning (probably about them), too! Sadness begets sadness, and happiness bri ... More >>

WTF is ROFLcon?!

​If you have the internet, especially on your phone, you might spend some time on Twitter. And if you're not completely consumed in this whole Nerd Prom thing, maybe you noticed another hashtag all up in your feed on Friday and Saturday. No, not about the weather, though it is beautiful in New ... More >>

Who the Internet Thinks You Are

​ This is eerie. You plug in your first and last name, and this web app gives a picture of how the internet sees you. The website, created as part of an MIT art installation Metropath(ologies), is meant as a critique of data mining efforts by Google, Netflix, and the U.S. Government. In a s ... More >>

Bones' Beat: Destroy All Monsters at Printed Matter

Any even slightly exhibitionistic art student knows the ground rules to starting a band: do some serious hanging out, pick a name, make a noise, and bring that noise with supreme gusto to a group of people in a basement or a cafeteria. It's simple and satisfying. Perhaps one in five art school ban ... More >>

Secret Science Club Gets Some Love

The Christian Science Monitor calls it "a nightclub for nerds," but that's sort of a rave for Brooklyn's Secret Science Club, which for years has been making science talks fun. One mailing for an astrophysics lecture, for example, was headlined, "Strap on your rocket pack! The Secret Science Club is ... More >>

Bones' Beat: The Art Dealers Association of America's Art Show

This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, lives down his old bad days as a louche art dealer at The Art Dealers Association of America's disastrous Art Show. Holger ThossCourtesy ADAA At the apogee of the last decade's art market boom, a decently connected dealer needed exert only a little ef ... More >>

Louise Nevelson's 'Dawns and Dusks'; Aimé Mpané at Skoto Gallery; The Bruce High Quality Foundation

Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey May Not Actually Be The Future of Storytelling

Stan VanDerBeek at Guild & Greyshkul; Diana Al-Hadid's 'Reverse Collider'; Josef Koudelka at Pace MacGill

Stan VanDerBeek

Untitled Mars: Lost in Space

Jay Schleib's beguiling, perplexing trip to the red planet

Meet Your Greens

Inspiring eco-solutions from Al Gore and friends

Don't Call it 'Project Runway, the Art Exhibit'

A Soho gallery turns fashion studio, for one week

Game On!

Will more professors develop video games for their classes?

Walking the Edge

NYU confronts its suicide problem with counseling and a questionable questionnaire

Math Destruction

An Informed Citizenry

Telling Trend Takes Hold

It's Nucular

Republicans Plan a Hydrogen Economy—at Your Expense

Rallying the Troupes

Young Directors Take Charge

Going Ballistic

Pentagon Fires on Critical Scientist

The Bilbao Effect

Marquee Architects Draw Mixed Reviews on Campus

BattleBot Galactica

Quantum Leap

Dr. Randell Mills says he can change the face of physics. The Scientfic Establishment thinks he's nuts.

Pure Play

Pure Play

At the re:play Conference, the Gaming World Longs for Legitimacy

Cyborg Dreaming

Darling, These Shoes Would Look Fabulous With That Computer You're Wearing!

Since 1985

Two-Bedroom Loft Co-Op

Radical Robots

Building the Electronic Future Out of LEGO