In the years that the filmgoing world has tried to pin down the secret to animation giant Pixar’s success, a few frontrunners have emerged as possibilities. First, there’s the Brain Trust, the company ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. On a frigid December afternoon, I took an elevator up to the sixth floor of a midtown office building on a busy ...

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Game Over: The Tech That Died in 2023 Another year, another crop of tech products and services that were unplugged, powered down, and erased from the web. Pour one out for the tech that had its last ...

We recently used a positional cloning approach to identify a nonconservative lysine to alanine substitution (K232A) in the bovine DGAT1 gene that was proposed to be the causative quantitative trait ...

It’s not always easy to sort fact from fiction in music biopics, particularly when the facts of musicians’ lives are often so bizarre. Elton John really did perform a concert dressed as Donald Duck.

Lou Reed’s 1975 album has been called one of the worst albums ever made. The truth is it is the product of genuine love and passion, still exhilarating and bursting with possibility four decades on.

“You swine! How dare you do that to a Rolls-Royce!” So screamed an outraged Englishwoman as John Lennon‘s Phantom V cruised past on London’s posh Piccadilly promenade in the summer of 1967. The ...

The plot of The Joshua Tree is essentially an immigrant’s tale: Four guys from Ireland set off to find America, and what they discovered left them both invigorated and outraged. While the lyrics to U2 ...

Five years ago, Google unveiled a shiny new toy for nerds. The Google Ngram Viewer is seductively simple: Type in a word or phrase and out pops a chart tracking its popularity in books. Millions of ...