Time, gentlemen

When will the last all-male clubs admit women?
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Fury rises at Disney over use of foreign workers

At the end of last October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs.
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The Professional Designer's Guide to using Black

Who knew there were so many colors of black?
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Parrot calls for help in 'woman's voice' during house fire

Firefighters in Idaho heard the screams coming from inside a burning house, but couldn't locate the woman making them. Turns out, it was the homeowner's pet parrot.
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The London bus: Britain’s most iconic design?

Beloved by locals and tourists alike, London’s red bus has endured to become synonymous with the city.
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David Simon: 'My Country Is a Horror Show'

The man behind the hit series 'The Wire' gave an impromptu speech about the divide between rich and poor in America.
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Your Tough Job Might Help Keep You Sharp

In an eight-year study of older people, those who had held mentally demanding, stimulating jobs tended to retain their mental agility better than people whose work was less stimulating.
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Believing that life is fair makes you a terrible person

Faced with injustice, we’ll try to alleviate it – but, if we can’t, we’ll do the next best thing, psychologically speaking: blame the victims of the injustice.
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Waiting for Dark: Inside Two Anarchists' Quest for Untraceable Money

AMIR TAAKI AND Cody Wilson are cruising north through Texas on Interstate 35 in the 4:30 am predawn darkness. One of the headlights on the aging BMW Wilson’s driving is burned out, and he’s wearing sunglasses. “They’re prescription,” he says drily.
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'American Dreaming': Detroit's golden age of auto design

Detroit inspired the nation with its innovative and beautiful auto designs of the 1950s and 60s. But most of those designs were never released by the automakers. Like most of the early-stage artwork created by Detroit's design studios, they've been destroyed. The car companies routinely shredded early sketches for fear they would fall into the wrong hands. But some of them did make their way out of the design studios of Ford, GM, Chrysler, Studebaker, Packard and AMC.
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Anti-Gay State Rep Outed By Guy He Was Trying To Pick Up On Grindr

What's funnier than a straight anti-gay bigot named "Breda" (Brēd-ä)? A closeted gay Republican elected official named "Randy Boehning." Grand Forks Herald: A North Dakota lawmaker who sent an explicit photo of himself to another man says the exchange being made public is retaliation for a recent vote against expanding gay rights. State Rep. Randy Boehning, a 52-year-old Republican legislator from Fargo, says a Capitol employee told him a fellow lawmaker vowed to out him...
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The Coming Food Bubble

In 1851, Charles Mackay wrote his 600-page tome, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. In it, he describes 86 economic bubbles, like the tulip and the South Sea bubbles during the 17th and 18th centuries, both which burst and caused thousands to lose their fortunes through speculation. Mackay believed this economic phenomenon was evidence of a reckless obsession.
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End of the car age: how cities are outgrowing the automobile

Gilles Vesco calls it the “new mobility”. It’s a vision of cities in which residents no longer rely on their cars but on public transport, shared cars and bikes and, above all, on real-time data on their smartphones. He anticipates a revolution which will transform not just transport but the cities themselves. “The goal is to rebalance the public space and create a city for people,” he says. “There will be less pollution, less noise, less stress; it will be a more walkable city.”
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Flanagan's Island

Richard Flanagan, the winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for fiction, welcomes us to his “writing shack” on Bruny Island, just off the southeastern coast of Tasmania.
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Almost Human

Robot images
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Will new laws give federal cybercops too much power?

Critics say the bills are about surveillance not security
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A Strange, Little Library Unlike Any You've Seen Before

If Borges’s Library of Babel is a massive, amorphous store of written documents, Jonny Love’s Unconcious Library is the opposite. Although it houses over 100,000 books, ladders, and scrolls, it contains virtually no concrete information. ...
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Tiny 'Thin Home' In Vancouver Sells For $1.35 Million

Believed to be the last of its kind, a rare "thin home" has sold in Vancouver for $1.35 million. Built in the late '80s and tucked away in the city's upscale Point Grey neighbourhood, the split-level home is a mere 3.6 metres (12 feet) wide. The floor space is only 945 sq.-ft., but manages to cram in a full kitchen, master bedroom, living room, garage, den and 1.5 bathrooms, according to its listing.
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New bank fees target kids' accounts and allow 'double-dipping,' say customers

Banking fees are going up at all of Canada's five big banks, but some customers of RBC in particular are outraged about the changes. They're accusing Canada's biggest bank of targeting children and those who can least afford it.​
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A Vertical City in the Sahara?

In what is surely the most resolutely optimistic architectural proposal of the year so far, French firm OXO Architectes has put forth a plan to build a city in the Sahara desert. A vertical city. That looks like a rock. The City Sand Tower is technically described as a mixed-use tower, but in its scope and ambition might be more accurately termed a space-age arcology.
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Didga Dreams BIG!

Didga is back & dreaming BIG! The best of the best stunts/tricks to amaze you with what cats can do! Please adopt, there are many amazing cats like Didga just waiting for a good home.
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Nasa spaceship takes stunning photo of Mercury - before it crashes into the planet

These astonishing images, taken by the Nasa Messenger spacecraft, show Mercury as never seen before.
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

A dialogue in darkness and light across two centuries of magic and genius.
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The mothers being criminalised in El Salvador

The BBC's Katy Watson reports from El Salvador where strict laws on abortion are resulting in some women being jailed after having miscarriages.
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Negative interest rates put world on course for biggest mass default in history

More than €2 trillion-worth of eurozone government bonds trade on a negative interest rate. It's a bubble that is bound to end badly
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The supervillain’s guide to saving the Internet

I have been something of a critic of our professional online writing industry for some time, and I have never been shy about criticizing the people who work in it. Chief among my complaints is that online writing is a culture that thinks it isn’t one... By Fredrik deBoer.
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Dirty Secrets: 10 Ways to Improve Garden Soil

Elizabeth Murphy is a soil scientist and gardener with a half-acre garden in Oregon that she uses as a laboratory to find new ways to improve soil. Here are her top 10 tips from her book Building Soil.
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Twitter tamps troll tweets

New policies at Twitter for reporting, automatic message muting, and enforcement could turn the noise way down for users subject to harassment.
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This Microsoft ad paints a terrifying future where employees are working literally 24 hours a day

Your work isn't done until you keel over dead, Surface Pro in hand.
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Dandelions Should Be the New Kale

Why we should incorporate edible weeds into our diets.
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Game of Fear

The Story Behind GamerGate. By Zachary Jason .
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No Escape From the Black Hole of a Police Database

Remember back in elementary school? How often were you cowed into socially acceptable behavior by the threat that something would go on your permanent record? You ain’t seen nothin’.
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Exclusive Interview: John Spies' Magnificent Photos Reveal the Hidden Wonders of Underground Caves

With more than 30 years of experience as a cave explorer and guide under his belt, Australian photographer John Spies is an expert at navigating the incredible formations and winding passages of underground sites never before seen by man.
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Crystalized Geode Installations Bring Beauty to Decaying Street Corners

Over the past few years, L.A.-based graphic designer and multidisciplinary artist Paige Smith (a.k.a. A Common Name) has installed countless crystalized rock formations in cracked, decaying nooks and crannies on the streets of cities as distant as Madrid, Istanbul, and Philadelphia.
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Uber Says It Can Deliver Food in NYC in 10 Minutes

Starting in New York and Chicago, Uber says its drivers will deliver you grub wherever you are in 10 minutes or less.
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Don't Believe Everything You Read: Lower Fuel Prices Aren't Why U.S. Airlines Are Earning Big Profits

The nation’s largest airlines last week reported ridiculous – for them – first-quarter profits. And it had far less to do with the price of oil and jet fuel than you’ve probably read. Oh, to be sure, a 43 percent drop in the price of a gallon of jet fuel in the first quarter this year vs. the first quarter of 2014 is noteworthy and important.
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These 9 Words Don't Mean What You Think They Mean

The following is an excerpt from The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead, in which author Charles Murray discusses words with meanings that have changed - and not always for the better.
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Local Food Systems: A Green Way of Life, or a Luxury Only for Elites?

While many celebrate salad greens, the local food movement is cultivating exclusivity and becoming less and less budget friendly.
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Feeding Nine Billion (Video 1)

Introducing Solutions to the Global Food Crisis by Dr. Evan Fraser
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Invisible Atheists

Last December, DAR AL IFTA, a venerable Cairo-based institution charged with issuing Islamic edicts, cited an obscure poll according to which the exact number of Egyptian atheists was 866. The poll provided equally precise counts of atheists in other Arab countries: 325 in Morocco, 320 in Tunisia, 242 in Iraq, 178 in Saudi Arabia, 170 in Jordan, 70 in Sudan, 56 in Syria, 34 in Libya, and 32 in Yemen. In total, exactly 2,293 nonbelievers in a population of 300 million.
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Alternate Universe Movie Posters

By Sean Hartter
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China overtakes France in vineyards

China has become the second-largest wine-growing area in the world after Spain, pushing France into third place, figures show.
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The Overwhelming Calm of Kyoto’s Buddhist Temples

Jacqueline Hassink’s work often explores public and private spaces absent of a human presence, from the boardrooms of Europe’s largest corporations to the fitting rooms of haute couture designers. Last year, Hassink completed a 10-year series with a focus on the Zen Buddhist temples and gardens found in Kyoto, Japan.
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Before Columbus, was there trade between Asia and New World?

Artifacts unearthed at a 1,000-year-old home in Alaska suggest that East Asians and Native Americans were exchanging goods centuries before Columbus set sail for the New World.
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How Warhol’s Work Influenced Our Wardrobes

Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans was mocked when first exhibited – but the work went on to have a lasting impact not only on art, but on the way we dress.
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Why Millions of Americans Feel Like They Have No Power Over Their Lives

We have fewer choices than ever, in just about every area of life.
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Diet Pepsi dropping aspartame on customer concerns

PepsiCo says it's dropping aspartame from Diet Pepsi in response to customer worries and replacing it with sucralose, another artificial sweetener commonly known as Splenda. The decision to swap sweeteners comes as Americans keep turning away from popular diet sodas. Rival Coca-Cola said this week that sales volume for Diet Coke, which also uses aspartame, fell 5 percent in North America in the first three months of the year.
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Denying New York Libraries the Fuel They Need

In New York, libraries have more users than major professional sports, performing arts, museums, gardens and zoos combined, but see only a fraction of the funding.
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One of Seven: Last Remaining 1967 Bedford Mobile Cinema (+Gallery)

This was one of seven units custom built for the British government in the late 1960s, used at the time to promote British industry. Sadly it looks like all other six have disappeared forever, leaving us with the only example of a quite stunning piece of British transport heritage. All efforts have been made to stay faithful to the original format in the restoration of the vehicle, with compromise only being made to benefit the audience and their safety.
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9 Tips To Save Your Life

Sitting can be lethal - here's how to counteract it!
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