My AIM Is Boo: AOL Shutting Down Instant Messenger Service
It’s time to let the Running Man run free. AOL is shutting down its instant messaging service, AIM, after a two-decade run. The company announced …
Category: Culture News
Parkour’s street stuntmen resent the sport’s new organisers
A SHIRTLESS man floats through the air, some six or seven stories from the ground. Behind him is the roof of a grubby block of …
Roman Polanski’s Alleged Sexual Assaults: What You Need to Know
Roman Polanski is known for many things: He’s the director of the classic films like Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown. He’s the widower of actress Sharon …
How to Choose a Weed Vape Pen
In 2017, very few Americans have access to clean and safe cannabis oil-filled vape pens. With hash oil cartridges in California still about a year …
Are Weed Vape Pens Safe?
In early 2014, I got my first weed-oil vape pen. It was elegant and silver, with a rechargeable battery that screwed into a transparent cartridge …
When architectural idealism meets reality
Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession. By Reinier de Graaf. Harvard University Press; 528 pages; $35 and £27.95. HIS name may …
An argument over the evolution of language, with high stakes
SPEECH leaves no fossils, so palaeoanthropologists have no direct evidence for the emergence of the quintessential human trait: language. Many scholars work on the topic …
Why pessimism is key to understanding the Victorians
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906. By David Cannadine. Allen Lane; 602 pages; £30. To be published in America by Viking in February 2018; $40. …
The decadent late-Victorian and Edwardian era
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914. By Simon Heffer. Random House Books; 897 pages; £30. IN the late Victorian and early Edwardian period …
Meet the invisible hand behind Hong Kong’s rise
Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong. By Neil Monnery. London Publishing Partnership; 337 pages; £24.50. DURING the 1960s, governments …