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Television The Donald Trump I Saw on The Apprentice For 20 years, I couldn’t say what I watched the former president do on the set of the show that changed everything. Now I can. On Jan. 8, 2004, just more than 20 years ago, the first episode of The Apprentice aired. It was called “Meet the Billionaire,” and 18 million people watched. The episodes that followed climbed to roughly 20 million each w
In a court filing on Tuesday, April 4, Twitter Inc. quietly revealed a major development: It no longer exists. The company is currently being sued by right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer, who accused it of violating federal racketeering laws when it banned her account in 2019. Loomer has a Twitter account again, and her absurd lawsuit is bound to fail—but until it does, Twitter, as a defendant, mus
The premise of Old Enough!, a Japanese reality show newly streaming on Netflix, is childishly simple. In each 10-minute episode, a tiny kid sets off to complete the child’s first errand alone. (Well, “alone,” with the cameramen.) The children totter off into the neighborhood, forget what they’re supposed to be doing, burst into tears, and ultimately make their way back to Mom and Dad laden with pl
Who Is Kiryu Coco? And How Are They Graduating From a YouTube Talent Agency? A dive into the wild world of VTubers—from talking otters to sharkpeople from Atlantis. On Wednesday, young people all over the world were crying, sharing melancholic memes, and posting fan art following a shocking announcement. They had just found out that their Japanese idol, Kiryu Coco, is graduating, and they were ber
This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech. During World War II, Unit 731 of the Japanese military undertook horrific medical experimentation in Manchukuo (Northeast China). Among other things, m
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. Dear Care and Feeding, My 15- and 17-year-olds snuck out of the house to attend a protest. We had explicitly told them they were not allowed to attend because we’re still social distancing as much as possible (their sister has asthma), there wo
Science The Long History of the Hand-Washing Gender Gap Women are slightly better at hand-washing than men. Here’s one theory for why. Hand-washing! It takes minimal effort and is incredibly effective, and yet we still don’t do it properly. In this time of COVID-19, we really ought to change that, James Hamblin wrote in the Atlantic last week, a desperate doctor’s plea for people to do better. “Ma
My mundane Halloween costume next year. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank/Getty Images Plus In 2014, Japanese website Daily Portal Z began holding a “jimi Halloween”—“mundane Halloween”—celebration. According to the blog Spoon & Tamago, those who started “mundane Halloween” “kind of wanted to participate in the festivities of Halloween, but were too embarrassed to go all out in witch or zombie costumes
Last week, Harper’s Bazaar published a piece by Melanie Hamlett that spread quickly between women on social networks. “Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden” read the headline, and those women sharing the article certainly agreed. “Willing to pay someone to take a physical copy of this story to every man I’ve ever dated and smack them over the head with it,” one tweeted. “I can’t even coun
Danny Kahneman’s love affair with Amos Tversky began in the spring of 1969, when his dazzling and clever colleague, also a professor of psychology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, came to give a talk to Kahneman’s graduate seminar. Tversky told the students about a new study being done by researchers in Michigan on how regular people tend to think about statistics. The work suggested that we all
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Four Seasons Arena on July 5 in Great Falls, Montana. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In private, according to reports, most Republican lawmakers agree that Donald Trump’s press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a horrifying display of contempt for American institutions. But they won’t speak out. “Most Republican members are
On March 21, at the height of the scandal over Cambridge Analytica’s harvesting of Facebook user data for political targeting, CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted a quote that he attributed to the computer security expert Bruce Schneier: Tapper’s tweet was retweeted more than 3,900 times. But that same day, HuffPost ran a story that attributed a similar quote to privacy expert Mark Weinstein: “You as a Face
Austin police chief Brian Manley in Round Rock, Texas on Wednesday. Scott Olson/Getty Images Austin police chief Brian Manley told reporters Wednesday that serial bomber Mark Conditt recorded a 25-minute video confession on Tuesday while being pursued by police. (Conditt died before being apprehended when an apparently self-detonated bomb went off in his car.) Manley’s comments about Conditt’s mot
Sachia Victory reacts after defeating Garbiñe Muguruza at the BNP Paribas Open on Friday. Jeff Gross/Getty Images As Marvel’s Black Panther continues its benevolent reign over the box office, the film’s cultural impact is starting to make itself known. The latest sign comes from the world of athletics, where black athletes have started celebrating their victories with the “Wakanda Forever” salute
Did You See This? A Re-enactment of a Wealthy Woman Getting Dressed in 18th-Century England It’s exhausting. It took so long to get dressed in the 18th century that it’s a miracle any of these people ever left the house. See for yourself in this fascinating and painstakingly detailed re-enactment video from the Lady Lever Art Gallery and National Museums Liverpool, England. In the video, a wealthy
Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando and Bernardo Bertolucci, pictured in order of media credibility. United Artists/IMDb In 2007, actress Maria Schneider gave an interview with Lina Das of the Daily Mail in which she talked about her work in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris on the occasion of the film’s 35th anniversary. The most notorious scene in the X-rated, Academy Award–nominated movie is
Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta addresses supporters at the election night rally in New York on Wednesday. Rick Wilking/Reuters The Democrats will now control next to nothing above the municipal level. Donald Trump will be president. We are going to be unpacking this night for the rest of our lives, and lives beyond that. We can’t comprehend even 1 percent of what’s just happened. B
All this controversy over some little white string? Dmytro Panchenko/Thinkstock My French roommate Julie had just come into the bathroom to get something. “What are you doing with that string in your mouth,” she said, with a look of horrified surprise. It turns out she had never seen floss. We were both in our 20s, and my dentist had spent over a decade instructing me to floss, so I was a little h
Joseph Stiglitz speaks onstage during the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting on Sept. 28 in New York City. JP Yim/Getty Images Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize–winning economist, has served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton and as the World Bank’s chief economist. In 2010, he acted as an adviser to the Greek government and became one of the mo
Lexicon Valley Is This the First Great Work of “Facebook Fiction”? On Tuesday, March 15, a mysterious letter appeared in the secure dropbox of the writer Robin Sloan—along with instructions to post the letter’s contents to Facebook, which Sloan did. The message unspooled the saga of an anonymous Facebook employee who’d accidentally discovered a curious property of an internal company application c
Look both ways: Pedestrians wait for the light to change in central Beijing on Sept. 18, 2007. Photo by Teh Eng Koon/AFP/Getty Images In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China’s Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head. As the girl’s grandmother shouted, “Stop! You’ve hit a child!” the BMW’s driver paused, then switched into reverse and backe
Why I Walked Out of Facial Recognition Negotiations Industry lobbying is shutting down Washington’s ability to protect consumer privacy. And it’s come a long way since this: A 3-D facial recognition program is demonstrated during the Biometrics 2004 exhibition and conference on Oct. 14, 2004, in London. Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images June 2, 2015, was a great day for privacy. June 16 was not. On
It was the will of Satan (shown here partying in Sacatepequez, Guatemala, last year) that decided Roe v. Wade. Photo by Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images Conservatives are increasingly citing their right to religious liberty to defend using state property to proselytize and disobey laws protecting women and LGBTQ people from discrimination. But those efforts are getting a little more complicated, tha
A static map of the spaceship’s layout in Hadean Lands. Image courtesy Andrew Plotkin The best video game I played last year is a science-fiction thriller about alchemy, and it has no graphics or sound effects. With little more than text, it manages to be far more impressive and innovative than the last Metal Gear Solid game. Hadean Lands is a text adventure, a genre also known by the fancier name
On Monday, Charlie Hebdo unveiled the cover of the first issue to be published after terrorists killed eight members of its editorial staff. On it, the prophet Mohammed, wearing a white robe and turban, sheds a tear while holding a “Je Suis Charlie” sign, under the words “Tout Est Pardonné” (“All Is Forgiven”). The cover is certainly provocative, given that Charlie Hebdo’s depictions of Mohammed—c
The Fall of Language in the Age of English, by the Japanese novelist and scholar Minae Mizumura, has all the ingredients of a rage-read. Indeed, when it was published in Japan in 2008, it infuriated commentators, who dismissed Mizumura as “reactionary,” “jingoistic,” or “elitist” and swarmed across Amazon deleting positive reviews. More than 65,000 copies have sold since then—which suggests the sl
On Wednesday, masked gunmen attacked the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo killing at least 12 people. While both the motive and the identity of the perpetrators are still unknown, the magazine is famous for its controversial cartoon covers. (Today’s cover features novelist Michel Houellebecq smoking a cigarette with the caption “In 2022, I will do Ramadan.” His latest novel,
No. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute; NASA,ESA, and M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute); NASA; Phil Plait The very first nonsense I had to debunk in 2014 was a claim that on Jan. 4 of that year a planetary alignment would cause gravity to decrease, allowing you to float momentarily or fall more slowly if you jumped in the air at the right moment: “Zero G Day.” This exact same h
Jim Watson is one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. He is also a peevish bigot. History will remember him for his co-discovery of the structure of DNA, in 1953. This week, Watson is ensuring that history, or at least the introduction to every obituary, will also remember him for being a jerk. In a fit of pique and self-pity, Watson is selling his Nobel Prize medallion. He will
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