Best of 2024: All Our Number Five Story Picks

And now I do the thing I have always hesitated to do — no longer defending, but attacking.

The author wanted a Japanese-style kitchen blade made for him by hand. What he witnessed was a combination of artistry and atomic magic.

Kyle Chayka on his digital journey with the Internet, including AOL Instant Messenger, online communities and forums, and social-media platforms such as Facebook and TikTok.

By Jori Lewis

No, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise? Nicholson Baker on how we lost our minds about UFOs.

Sauce-maker David Tran and farmer Craig Underwood came together from different worlds to create an American icon. After 28 years, it fell apart in one day.

For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.

revolution in education! A resuscitation of the university mission! To happen in, of all places, not the pompous old northeast or the debauched West Coast, not New York or California but the countr…

AI is poised to eliminate customer-service agents. We’ll miss them when they’re gone | 1843

As a young star, she endured Hollywood’s brutal treatment of women. Now she’s putting her resilience and grit on full display.

While the cameras lingered on the stars, thousands of non-celebrities were whooping it up in the Dolby theatre’s cheap seats. I was one of them

My head is in a helmet studded with electrodes. A giant eye is watching me. My brain is numbered. Again. Probes puncture my scalp to survey my mind. Temporal lobe, occipital lobe, you name it; the...

March 26, 2024 – “There’s not much I like better than driving in this country.”

For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure.

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the trio behind the Cornetto trilogy and its iconic film Shaun of the Dead reflect on how they made the movie 20 years ago.

I have never engaged with the world so deeply as an artist.

Silences that close us off, refusing connection, shoring up the ego at others’ expense—those are dead silences. But the letting-go sort, the silences that hold space or keep vigil for someone else? They are alive.

"I need all of you to yell, ‘PUSH! PUSH! PUSH!’ Ready? Go!”

In a GQ oral history, director Doug Liman, writer John August, and then-rising stars Timothy Olyphant and Sarah Polley tell us how it really went down. Two words: “Tantra, baby!”

This is the saga of Kitty Snows, street queen of Foggy Bottom, and her feisty human neighbors.