Efficiency Is Biting Back
Decades of streamlining everything made the U.S. more vulnerable.
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Getty / The Atlantic Want to Buy a Gun? Try Your Local Pharmacy
If cigarettes seem out of place on a drugstore shelf, how about firearms?
nichols-guns.com Could a $500 Gadget Have Prevented the Metro-North Tragedy?
What would it cost to repurpose an advanced radar/GPS device to help control the speeds of trains?
Controlling the Space-Time Continuum, With Art
For just $19.99, Jonathan Keats will sell you a one-pound lead bar that he says slows down time (by less than a nanosecond).
The Sublime Otherness of Sharks
A new book makes the visual case for why sharks fascinate and frighten us, and for why we should save them.
University of Chicago Press A Second Life for Seconds, the 1966 Cult Classic That Made Audiences Sick
John Frankenheimer's would-be blockbuster was booed at Cannes and failed commercially, but its twisted tale of a mid-life crisis was ahead of its time.
Gibraltar Productions; Joel Productions; John Frankenheimer Productions Inc. The Problem of the Chair
Designer Niels Diffrient was the latest in a line of masters finding new ways to adapt the material world to our bodies.
Will There Ever Be Another Book Cover as Iconic as The Great Gatsby's?
F. Scott Fitzgerald worked with an artist to create the perfect image for his novel. But jacket design seems less important now, in the era of e-readers.
Why the Boomers Are the Most Hated Generation
F. Scott Fitzgerald's flappers also grew up in a time of plenty, but they were allowed to age out of their sybaritic image. What makes the Boomers different?
Can Anybody Possibly Measure the Real Price of Information?
The incalculable advantages of digital innovation on the cost and quality of life
