Wired reports on a unique experiment that was meant to discover the impact different approaches to introducing a toy might have on the children’s attitude and pursuit of that toy. The first group was given the toy by an adult who acted as if she had just discovered it, and encouraged to find out exa
D.C. duo Bluebrain releases its new album Listen to the Light today. It takes the form of an iPhone app but it’s really a location-aware album composed for NYC’s Central Park. Check out the behind-the-scenes video here with Dischord’s Ian MacKaye and AOL’s Steve Case. We recently interviewed Bluebr
The above video is the trailer for the game Glitch, a new, free MMO that, by the looks of this trailer and press release, boasts (a) overwhelming cuteness (the press release brags that what makes the game different from everything else is that they have “egg plants”), and (b) the ramifications of in
The New York Times has a new review of Neal Stephenson’s new novel Reamde as written by Tom Bissell, a writer who knows his way around a word or two. It’s tempting to repost the entire thing, but here is the general thesis of the review: There are times when you wonder if Reamde is the smartest dum
Because we don’t live in The Lawnmower Man (yet), Parissa has released an ad questioning the unladylike practice of leg shaving. Ladies, your razor thinks you’re nothing but a bunch of polys. Reclaim your curvaceous femininity by sticking hot wax on your legs and then quickly ripping it off. That bu
Imagine if this weren’t 2011 and things like this just didn’t show up on the internet. Your life would be approximately 10% worse. [via]
Television is sixty years old. Think about that for a moment. In all likelihood, if you are reading this, you were not alive then. Hell, you probably weren’t even alive when the band Television started up. LIFE’s just posted some archival photographs of people watching TV, and they’re riveting. Ther