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“I can’t imagine why anyone would want to work for this guy,” says Michael Wolff of the Apple CEO.
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His first internet company tanked. So was Wolff nervous about launching Newser?
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The writer had a feeling of “immense relief that this quixotic enterprise of buying the magazine would not end up as my terrible fate.”
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Michael Wolff remembers his first time walking into the “depressing, smoke-filled” newsroom after he was hired—and knowing it wasn’t a place where he wanted to work.
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The billionaire media mogul was surprised that Wolff’s biography of him was so “personal.”
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A conversation with the Vanity Fair columnist, author of The Biography of Rupert Murdoch and founder of Newser.
Generals sometimes become presidents. Our nation’s first president became a full general posthumously. Eleven other generals rose to the rank of commander-in-chief. So I don’t have a problem with General […]
Your brain doesn’t work as well as you think it does. At least that’s what psychologist Christopher Chabris argues in his new book “Invisible Gorillas,” which calls into question the […]
Award-winning Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky stopped by Big Think yesterday before taking off this morning for the Gulf Coast, where he will try to wrap his head (and camera lens) […]
If your mother is elderly, requires 24-hour attention, and has Alzheimers, would you care for her yourself at home, hire a nurse, or put her in a nursing home? These […]
Internet comment sections are typically seen as a bastion of free speech, but have they outlived their importance? When do abusive and lazy comments override anonymous expression?
Dean Baker proposes ways to pay off the budget deficit that don't include cutting social security: among them, a financial speculation tax and allowing the sale of generic prescription drugs.
"Ten years ago people talked confidently of stopping Alzheimer’s disease in its tracks. Now, they realise they have no idea how to do that," says The Economist.
Microsoft's new Xbox frill, Kinect, uses detailed sensing technology that could enable a host of practical applications from improved home security systems to hands-free medical files.
"The United States is hopelessly dependent on credit. And like stopping other serious addictions, only one solution will work—go cold turkey. We should abolish credit," says The Atlantic.
That certain dolphin and whale species possess "self-awareness, suffering and a social culture" is a strong moral reason to finally halt the ongoing hunting of large marine life, says Al Jazeera.
"When does a passion for gadgets turn into an addiction with symptoms that include headaches and back pain?" asks the Independent. Scientists now study this very modern affliction.
"By prompting President Obama to suspend deep-water drilling in US offshore waters, the Gulf oil spill is pushing up the date at which the world's conventional oil production peaks," says the CSM.
"The Supreme Court's ruling that advising terrorist groups to pursue their goals peacefully is 'material support' of their violent activities is wrongheaded," says an L.A. Times editorial.