“I founded 4chan eleven and a half years ago at the age of 15, and after more than a decade and a half of service, I’ve decided it’s time for me to move on,” began Christopher Poole’s letter of resignation, posted on 4chan last month. 4chan is a completely anonymous online image board, most famous for birthing memes that crowd the...

Every time Rebecca Traister sees someone wearing a “THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE” T-shirt, she feels a rush of excitement. Traister, a senior writer at Salon and regular contributor to the New Republic, The Nation, the New York Observer and others, has been writing about women in politics, media, and entertainment for almost two decades. When she started writing...

  One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Picture it: you’re swimming through the Gulf of Mexico. Surrounded by a school of your friends. The water is so warm today, you’d think, if you were human and understood the concept ‘warm.’ What a day to be a red grouper. Happy as a clam. Except not really, because you hate those...

No Uglies On a warm autumn day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy sat calmly beside his wife, Jackie, in the back of a limousine. Nellie Connally, the First Lady of Texas, turned back and smiled at John. “Mr. President,” she said. He leaned in to hear her. “You can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.” He looked to the sky as...

With the image of New York and Boston before it, Providence is designing a bike share. Providence’s bike share will be a public-private partnership. In 2010, Alta Planning + Design—the same company that controls New York’s Citi Bikes—completed a feasibility study to assess the possibility of implementing a bike share in Providence. This positioned the company as the obvious frontrunner when...

Pastel squares crumble beneath your feet. You poise your fingers, held equidistant from weapon schematics and a twitch key. Usually a reactive tap would save the hero from semi-deletion. But not on this yellowing cliff face. Not when 32 conspiring pixels form a gaping, toothed blackness; not when decadence creeps through his veins towards a final portal without respawn. This is...

NASA engineers asked Ride, “Is 100 [tampons] the right number?” She would be in space for a week. –American Prospect, June 19, 2014 [Playtex] triumphed over the more politically connected, engineering-driven Hamilton-Standard to win the Apollo lunar space-suit contract…by drawing on the craft-culture handiwork and expertise of seamstresses, rather than on the hard-line culture of engineering. –Smithsonian Magazine, August 27th, 2012...

Watching the Atlanta Hawks play is like watching chaos. On offense, no one stops moving. The court is a constant whirlwind of picks, cuts, and passes. Center Al Horford moves up to set a pick for point guard Jeff Teague, rolls away a second too early, gets the pass, kicks to shooting guard Kyle Korver, who swings to forward Paul Millsap,...

12/23 Still on the plane. I wonder how much of Egypt will simply (or not so simply, I suppose) be the void left after my grandmother’s death—will I miss her more acutely once I pass by her apartment, now empty? There’s so much about her that I feel I never got to learn. When I try to remember her, I can...