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COSPLAYING AROUND

New York Comic Con is, hands down, my favorite weekend of the year. As a photographer whose work can otherwise be intensely isolating and emotionally draining, NYCC is a fantasy dreamscape come to life.
  
WAITING FOR THE BIG ONE

There's a tension in the literature around nuclear disasters, between the need to accurately describe them as they are — a kind of nightmare sublime — and to balance out "hysteria" and present the "facts."
  
CLOSING THE BLINDS

Tweets over the weekend confirm what we long suspected: Windows Phone is now officially dead. Now all we're left with is a sad tale of what might have been.
  
COLOR US SURPRISED

With their wild colors and rough, untamed brushwork, Henri Matisse, André Derain and the Fauvists burst onto the avant-garde Paris scene of the early 20th century.
  
NOT OK, GOOGLE

The first statement-turned-question Google's Pixel 2 commercial uses as an example is an odd one. "The Earth is flat," the ad says. Then, "The Earth is flat?" This might seem like a benign question if Google itself wasn’t completely terrible at accurately answering such queries.
  
RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR KEYS AND MISSING SOCK

You have probably heard about the hunt for dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to permeate the universe, the effects of which we can see through its gravitational pull. But our models of the universe also say there should be about twice as much ordinary matter out there, compared with what we have observed so far.
  
STRUGGLING IN THE U CURVE

"Hey," I asked my friend, "do you know anyone having a midlife crisis I could talk to?" The phone was silent for a second. Finally, she said, "I'm trying to think of any woman I know who's not."