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Joe Bussard sitting in his basement in Frederick, Maryland, with some of the rarest 78s in existence. The brown paper record jackets behind him are all uniformly discolored in the middle as a result of Joe’s hands sorting and searching through them for the past 60 years. Eilon Paz Photographer Eilon Paz left Israel in 2008 to try his luck in New York. “It was the worst time to try your luck. It wa
In much the same way I used to quiz my grandmother about how she survived the Great Depression, a younger colleague recently asked me what online journalism was like in the 1990s (we started Slate in 1996). As I started to talk about it, I realized that the journalism itself hasn’t changed that much—blah blah social media, blah blah interactives, blah blah longform—but what has changed is the mone
This article originally appeared in Business Insider. First invented in 1903, the original Crayola box contained only eight colors, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black. It sold for only a nickel. A chart posted on Reddit shows how Crayola crayon colors have grown from eight basic hues to dozens in a little over 100 years. Now, there are 120 colors in the Crayola co
We’ve translated these 12 famous first lines from novels into emojis. Can you name them? Answers: 1.) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. 2.) “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis. 3.) “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my lo
It makes sense that Google would be investing in better ways to protect transoceanic data cables. Over the years there have been several instances in which damage to undersea lines resulted in widespread disruptions of Internet service. Dependable network infrastructure has become increasingly essential to Google’s business, which relies on ultra-fast transmissions of information between its data
This year’s World Cup has featured some of the planet’s greatest athletes performing seemingly impossible physical tasks. Bicycle kicks. Spectacular goals. Mind-bending saves. Displays of endurance, determination, and balletic grace. And, of course, turning to the left and folding your arms. It turns out that’s surprisingly hard to ace on your first (and, presumably, only) try. Hundreds upon hundr
Culturebox Tagalog in California, Cherokee in Arkansas What language does your state speak? Last month, I wrote about the fun and the pitfalls of viral maps, a feature that included 88 super-simple maps of my own creation. As a follow-up, I’m writing up short items on some of those maps, walking through how I created them and how they succumb to (and hopefully overcome) the shortfalls of viral car
Science Phineas Gage, Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient Each generation revises his myth. Here’s the true story. From a virtuous foreman to a sociopathic drifter On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day when the mind might start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage filled a drill hole with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. It was the last normal moment
Serbia-born, Paris-based architect Jug Cerovic moonlights as a map designer who has created a series of standardized subway maps of cities around the world. His INAT series of maps are meant to fit in your pocket and be easy to read and use: They enlarge dense city centers to make multiple lines and connecting stations more visible. A standard set of symbols is used for all maps and all lines are
The upcoming publication of the Black Notebooks—three never-before-seen volumes by the legendary German philosopher Martin Heidegger—may reveal a direct link between Heidegger’s lengthy dalliance with Nazism and his landmark treatise Being and Time. With the controversial new publication also arises an important question: When it comes to separating an author from his or her ideology and continuin
Correction, Jan. 29, 2014: Some of the sources used in the reporting of this piece were unreliable and resulted in a number of untruths and inaccuracies. The original post remains below, but a follow-up post outlining the errors, as well as further explanation, can be found here. Ashkenazic Jews were among the last Europeans to take family names. Some German-speaking Jews took last names as early
Although Richard Tuschman enjoys going to the theater, he is slightly more attracted to the sets and lighting than to the drama unfolding onstage. He was also attracted to the quiet sense of drama found in the paintings of Edward Hopper, and he used them as a launching pad for a personal project he began almost two years ago titled “Hopper Meditations.” Tuschman has worked predominately as a comme
The XX Factor This Awesome Ad, Set to the Beastie Boys, Is How to Get Girls to Become Engineers This is a stupendously awesome commercial from a toy company called GoldieBlox, which has developed a set of interactive books and games to “disrupt the pink aisle and inspire the future generation of female engineers.” The CEO, Debbie Sterling, studied engineering at Stanford, where she was dismayed by
Orson Welles, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 1, 1937. Photo by Carl Van Vechten/Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons Wednesday marks the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles’ electrifying War of the Worlds broadcast, in which the Mercury Theatre on the Air enacted a Martian invasion of Earth. “Upwards of a million people, [were] convinced, if only briefly, that the United States was bein
Actually, Amazon basically doesn’t make money at all. Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP/GettyImages It’s become a quarterly ritual: Amazon reports that it’s losing money, and its investors cheer and hand over more. Pundits shake their heads in wonder. And Amazon’s competitors tremble in existential terror. My colleague Matt Yglesias once half-joked that the company amounts to “a charitable organization bein
The Vault The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This “Histomap,” created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931. (The David Rumsey Map Collection hosts a fully
Images courtesy Warner Bros, Disney/Pixar, Disney, and Universal Pictures If you’ve gone to the movies recently, you may have felt a strangely familiar feeling: You’ve seen this movie before. Not this exact movie, but some of these exact story beats: the hero dressed down by his mentor in the first 15 minutes (Star Trek Into Darkness, Battleship); the villain who gets caught on purpose (The Dark K
For now, law enforcement has trouble monitoring Gmail communications in real time Image courtesy Google Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made gaining more powers to wiretap all forms of Internet conv
SimCity has been lying to you. For decades, the legendary city-simulation game has given players the sense that they possessed real power over virtual people. When you played SimCity—whether you got hooked by the original game, created by Will Wright and released in 1989, or its many wonderful sequels—you imagined yourself as a city-planning savant who had the power to make life awesome or awful f
A still frame from DJ Sadhu’s video claiming the solar system moves through the galaxy along a vortex. This claim is—to be charitable—incorrect. Image credit: DJ Sadhu, from the video. I’ve been getting lots of tweets and email from folks linking to a slick-looking video, a computer animation showing the motion of the planets around the Sun as the Sun orbits around the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s a ver
A cube at Google’s global headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Courtesy Google. A few years ago, Google’s human resources department noticed a problem: A lot of women were leaving the company. Like the majority of Silicon Valley software firms, Google is staffed mostly by men, and executives have long made it a priority to increase the number of female employees. But the fact that women were leav
Photographer Menno Aden likes to look down on his subjects, but in about the least pretentious way possible. To him, it’s just another way of seeing someone’s personality. “For me as an artist, watching from a higher position on a small space is interesting because I can see someone’s ‘compressed personality,’ ” Aden wrote via email. “I started photographing rooms of friends in Berlin, to make por
For the newest James Bond movie, Skyfall, English singer Adele recorded a song with the same name. Though Adele speaks with a strong London accent, her singing voice sounds more American than British. Why do British vocalists often sound American when they sing? Because that’s the way everyone expects pop and rock musicians to sound. British pop singers have been imitating American pronunciations
Globally, lactose intolerance is the norm; around two-thirds of humans cannot drink milk in adulthood Photograph by Valentyn Volkov/iStockphoto/Thinkstock. To repurpose a handy metaphor, let’s call two of the first Homo sapiens Adam and Eve. By the time they welcomed their firstborn, that rascal Cain, into the world, 2 million centuries of evolution had established how his infancy would play out.
Not in Minnesota, you can’t. Screenshot / Coursera UPDATE, Oct. 19, 7:07 p.m.: Common sense has indeed prevailed! Minnesota has decided to stop enforcing an outdated law that had led to Coursera telling the state’s residents they weren’t allowed to take its free online classes. For more, see my follow-up post here. Original post: Honorable mentions go to New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commissi
Claudio, Stella e Farfalla. Cetona, Italy. Jay Mark Johnson. The abstract-seeming images here are not the result of some wacky Photoshopping. Jay Mark Johnson’s photos are actually incredibly precise. The reason they look like this is because he uses a slit camera that emphasizes time over space. Whatever remains still is smeared into stripes, while the motion of crashing waves, cars and a Tai Chi
Science Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com An investigation reveals evidence of plagiarism, dodgy quotes, and factual inaccuracies. Science writer and contributor to Radio Lab, Jonah Lehrer attends the ‘You and Your Irrational Brain’ panel discussion at Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City in conjunction with the World Science Festival on May 29, 2008 in New York City. Photo by Thos
New gadgets, no more pinching to zoom. Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/GettyImages Since it came out on a Friday afternoon, I was only able to comment briefly on the Apple v Samsung verdict yesterday but I was able to read some pushback on Twitter against my view that Apple’s win is a loss for consumers. To look specifically at what I’m unhappy about, the jury upheld several Apple patents which amount
In May 2009, a wealthy 20-year-old was drag racing through the city streets of Hangzhou, China, when his Mitsubishi struck and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk. The car was traveling so fast that the victim—a 25-year-old telecom engineer of a modest, rural background—was flung at least 20 yards. Afterward, bystanders and reporters photographed the driver, Hu Bin, as well as his rich friends, who
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