The new iPhones, Apple announced yesterday, will be set by default to automatically record a constant stream of sound and video whenever the camera app is in use, without the user pressing the shutter button and even if the camera isn’t set to take video.
The New York Times business section reports today on the mild controversies surrounding the use of ClassDojo, an application that enables schoolteachers to upload a running log of every student's behavior into a cumulative scoreboard:
The osprey, Pandion haliaetus, is a bird of character. The ancient poets knew this, and the Maryland Transportation Authority is discovering it the hard way. Last week, a pair of ospreys decided to build their nest on a platform overlooking the approach to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, where the MDTA keeps a traffic…
Modern Farmer magazine has an engaging roundup of the reasons why "cow tipping" is not and has never been an actual thing. There's the behavioral argument (cows are wary of strangers), the physics argument (knocking a cow over would require five or six people's worth of force), and the argument by veterinary analogy…
At 6:30 this morning a camera crew was—for whatever reason—filming the guy who sells papers outside of our subway stop. Your correspondent, whose aversion to appearing on camera is as deep-seated as it is pathologically ridiculous, somehow braved the fear of the lens to plunk down a quarter for the Post, at which…
