Learning how to train dogs hasn’t fixed all the problems in my life, but it has given me a better idea of how to properly use rewards with those around me, no matter how many legs they might walk on.
The Drum Buddy operates something like an optical theremin, giving the stylistically-liberated musician power to make otherworldly, fully analog sounds of all kinds
Venture out of the digitized confines of Manhattan and into the cyberpunky outer boroughs, and you might discover "what Kirk Semple":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/nyregion/for-some-new-york-immigrants-vhs-is-king-for-movie-rentals.html, a New Yor…
Not far from the paper's shiny headquarters, the Times still keeps its morgue, the clippings archive that in the olden days was Google before Google, and where now newspaper clippings and photos - actual, physical things - go to die. Or to get resurr…
As a civilization speeding headlong into uncharted terrains, we get our kicks staring out the window at all the outmoded stuff going out of focus in our collective rearview. We obsess over the newly obsolete, the antiques of recent history. We consta…
My nieces have never interacted with many of the items that seemed indispensable before the era of the smart phone and the personal computer. I asked them to guess at the utility of objects that have recently become antiques. FOLLOW US ON "TWITTER…
Everything is only the sum of its parts--but what are those parts? Most of the objects we live with are invisible to us. Hell, most of our own bodies aren't even visible to us... I don't plan on getting a good look at my own insides anytime soon. But…
At the Atlantic, for its "How Genius Works":http://www.theatlantic.com/special-report/how-genius-works/ issue, TC Boyle talks about writing his 1995 book _The Tortilla Curtain_, just before he began using a computer, losing his careful revisions in t…
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Oscilloscopes use a single point of light moving quickly across the screen to display voltage waves - crucial to the worlds of electronics, science and medicine. But with the right input, they can be used to draw other shapes too. To make a video for…
