August 2015 Culture Articles
- Here's Why Obama Gets to Rename Mount McKinley as Denali
- Slave Tetris Highlights Steam's Latest Educational History Game Offering
- Learning Psychotherapy at Fairfield University: This Week's Saturday Syllabus
- How to Drink Cheap Whiskey, Richly
- Pitchfork's Jessica Hopper Digs Aussie Zines and Top 40 Country: MEDIA DIET
- New Burning Man Sheriff Focuses on Illegal Drugs
- Teen ISIS Recruiter Leaves Digital Trail That Leads to Jail
- Q&A: Berit Brogaard on Unlocking Your Brain’s Superhuman Abilities
- California Taps Its Overcrowded Prison System to Battle Wildfires
- Justin Bieber Goes Tropical House on Latest Single, "What Do You Mean"
- How Smartphones Are Making You Sadder
- What Having Roommates Does to Our Sense of Self
- Q&A: Steve Silberman on Autism and the Neurodiversity Movement
- 6Islands Creates a Tropical Shared Workspace for Digital Nomads
- 'Deez Nuts' Wannabes Troll Federal Election Commission
- This Computer Can Detect Schizophrenia by Listening to You Talk
- Watch 92 Years of Collected Wisdom: Nobody Knows What They're Doing
- John Searles, Critic and Bestselling Author: JOB HACKS
- Verizon’s Hum Can Connect Your Not-Yet-Smart Car
- Science Articles With Shorter Titles Get More Citations
- Visiting MCity, the Fake Town at the Center of Michigan's Auto Industry
- Drought Is Forcing California Agriculture to Scrape by on Its Groundwater
- Hollywood Action Heroes Get Eco-Friendly
- The National Park Service Celebrates Birthday With Old White People
- Tri Alpha Energy's Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Might Mean Big Things
- How Will Tokyo's Artificial Meteor Shower Work?
- Here Are Your Best Black Monday Twitter Reactions
- Michel'le Speaks Out Against Dr. Dre's Abuse Apology
- Could We Get a Universal Flu Vaccine?
- Duke Freshmen Are Revolting Against Alison Bechdel's Memoir 'Fun Home'
- Conflict in the Middle East Has Reduced Greenhouse Gases There Since 2010
- Sunday Lectures | 'Game of Thrones' Economics, Unique Humanity, and Saul Bellow
- Talking Hard And Stealing the Air | A Look Back On 'Pump Up the Volume' 25 Years Later
- How America's First Poop Bank Fights Infection With Feces
- Giphy's App, Giphy Cam, Makes Mobile GIF Creation Almost Too Easy
- San Jose Could Begin Putting Police Scanning Tech on Garbage Trucks
- Who's Who In 'Fear the Walking Dead'
- The Self-Driving Mass Transit Movement Gets Slow-Bus Start in Netherlands
- Will Tech Ever Make Arranging a Threesome Easy?
- 5 Reasons Why the Time to Have the First Woman Leader of the UN Is Now
- Patti Smith Sings 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' Aria
- The Oxford Union Really Wants to Meet Taylor Swift
- How Thoth Technologies Plans to Build a Space Elevator
- Warp Speed: It's Lit
- Why 'The Economist' Named 3 Canadian Cities Among the World's Most Livable
- Here's the First Teaser for 'The Daily Show With Trevor Noah'
- The Missouri Supreme Court Has Ruled Red Light Camera Laws Unconstitutional
- The Guardian's List of 100 Best English Language Books Is Bullshit
- Ty Burr, Film Critic for The Boston Globe: JOB HACKS
- KFC's Colonel Sanders and Norm Macdonald Break the Internet
- Study Finds That Black Academics Feel Obligated to Entertain
- Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig by the Numbers
- America Saves Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit, Is Pretty Kickass
- Everything We Know About 'Heroes Reborn'
- Rolex Sponsorship Makes the Vertical Ship and Lab SeaOrbiter Plausible
- ‘Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalkers’ is Slick But Undercooked
- National Rankings of Beauty by County Are Painfully Accurate at the Bottom
- Why Would Anyone Join the Empire in 'The Force Awakens'?
- Algorithms May Be Picking Up Racial and Gender Bias as They Mirror Humans
- Design the Cover Art for the 20th Anniversary Edition of 'Infinite Jest'
- Get to Know New York City in the Summertime at Duke: Saturday Syllabi
- Wave Machine Makes Surfing a Better Spectator Sport
- Shane Carruth Details His New Movie 'The Modern Ocean'
- To Reduce Long Lines, Serve the Last Person First
- Obama's Spotify Playlist Proves the President Is Also a Dad
- An Interview With King Mez, Dr. Dre's Go-To Writer
- An Oral History of the Indoor Rainforest Iowa Almost Built
- Ellie, Slack's Premier Virtual Psychotherapist, May Drive You Slightly Mad
- New Parenthood Makes People Unhappier Than Divorce and Death
- June Thomas of Slate Is Idiosyncratic Tastes Embodied: MEDIA DIET
- Documentary 'Billion Dollar Bully' Takes on Yelp Extortion
- West Point Professor Argument That the Civil War Wasn't About Slavery
- David Lynch's Most Lynchian Work Isn't What You'd Expect
- More States Are Moving Toward Letting Ex-Felons Vote
- Tommy Wiseau ('The Room') Directs Normal Video for Corsica Arts Club
- An 1860 Story on the Sewing Machine Reminds Us of the Hard Labor It Saved
- 20 Years Later, Is 'The Usual Suspects' Still a Masterpiece?
- Random BnB Is the 'I Feel Lucky' of the World's Best Airbnb Listings
- Ron Claiborne, Weekend 'Good Morning America' Anchor: JOB HACKS
- 'The Notebook' Is Coming to CW as a TV Show, Sure, Good Luck with That
- Tumor-Sniffing Dogs Are the Future of Cancer Detection
- Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig Wants to Give Away the Presidency
- 'The Fly Trap' Author Fredrik Sjöberg on Mastering the Insect Universe
- 'Fantastic Four' Failure Ignites Interest in Roger Corman's 1994 Version
- If You Want to Understand Ferguson, Understand How America Is Forcing Segregation
- William Shakespeare? More Like Dankspeare
- Joanna Newsom (and Paul Thomas Anderson) Back
- South Korean Men Find New Purpose in the Kitchen
- #ILookLikeAnEngineer Is a Brilliant Celebration of Women in Engineering
- Sea World's Profits Are Cratering Because People Believe They Torture Whales
- What Happens When Indie Filmmakers Take Over Major Franchises
- Donald Trump is Borrowing From Lex Luthor's Presidential Campaign Playbook
- Jared Rouben, Brewmaster of Moody Tongue Brewery | JOB HACKS
- What Do We Know About the Minority Report TV Show
- How to Define Your Future Politics Today
- Indian Porn Is Back and the Government Is Sorry
- Donald Trump Chrome App Adds Candidate's Weird Quotes to News Stories
- MIT Linguists Say Human Languages Might Be Predictable
- Universal Breaks Global Box Office Record for a Movie Studio
- CVS Health’s Cigarette Ban Cost the Chain Billions
- Drones Are a Great Drug Delivery System Behind Bars
- The Fast-Casual Pizza Battle Is Officially On
- Why Has Fast-Food Monogamy Become Its Own Miserable Currency?
- 7 Planned Cities Designed to Change Our Urban Future
- Scientists Are Building a Shield to Protect Astronauts From Cancer
- Does the Internet Want You to Quit Your Job?
- The Poster Store Offering Every Image on the Web
- 'Error-Prone' Simulates Our Inferior Driving Skills
- The Military's Making Non-Lethal Plasma Guns to Fire a Deafening Noise Cloud
- Half of All Emails Are Still Spam, and That's a 10-Year Low
- 'True Detective:' "Everything Is Fucking"
- 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: 'Heaven Is A Place'
