Production Bowl

from The New York Times Behind the Scenes of the Most Spectacular Show on TV Months of preparation, hundreds of staff, convoys of cutting-edge gear: inside the machine that crafts prime time’s most popular entertainment. By Jody Rosen One of NBC’s’ production trucks...

Social Divorce

from The Guardian The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms by Ross Barkan ‘The 19th-century romantics feared an inhuman future – hence their rebellion. Today’s romantics, still nascent, sense something similar.’ (Painting: Wanderer...

Ken Block’s Finale

from The Drive Ken Block’s Final Gymkhana Video Is a Spectacular Showcase of What He Did Best Elecktrikhana Two: One More Playground is an epic exhibition of car control and cinematography. BY ANDREW P. COLLINS Before we tragically lost driving and racing legend Ken...

America Now

from the Financial Times America’s cultural supremacy and geopolitical weakness The notion of ‘decline’ is too crude to capture what is happening to the US in the 21st century by JANAN GANESH The Premier League’s two top teams, Arsenal and Liverpool, are US-owned ©...

A Wave Pulse On A String

from WIRED School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings Playing the guitar is an art form. But the good vibrations you hear are a science. PERHAPS THE MOST iconic instrument in modern rock is the guitar. It’s really just a bunch of strings stretched...

More Number Four

from Stanford Arts Review No Sign of ‘I Am Number Four 2’ Sequel Yet Despite Continued Fan Demand for Next Alien Thriller Installment by Krishan Mehra I Am Number Four was a teen sci-fi movie released in 2011 by Dreamworks Pictures. Based on the novel of the same...