Victory Inquiry

Mothers Warn Their Daughters About The Secret Eyeball In Their Brains, And Other Life Lessons There's a lot of wisdom out there if you just think to ask the right questions. November 30, 2016 at 05:17PM via Digg

First Click: What Civilization 6 taught me about Black Friday There's such a fine line between rationally pursuing a good deal on something you need — whether it's a new winter coat, an upgraded laptop, or some iron ore for your factories — and just blindly chasing deals for their own sake. November 25, 2016 at 10:53AM via Digg

Learning to live with and without soccer I’ve been a professional soccer player for six years. This is what I’ve figured out. November 6, 2016 at 06:22PM via Digg

Lush Life Lahore In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, alcohol is both a provocation and a banality, both a grave sin and a ubiquitous presence at get-togethers, weddings, and leftist conventions. October 13, 2016 at 04:42AM via Digg

Worldbuilding In Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom' Much has been said about Wes Anderson's visual style, but what about his writing? "Lessons from the Screenplay" investigates how Wes Anderson established the stakes, details and style of this film before a single frame had been shot. October 4, 2016 at 01:20PM via Digg

Writing For Half-Life In an unearthed journal entry dated the day after "Half-Life" shipped, writer Marc Laidlaw talks about writing one of the most influential stories the medium of video games has ever seen. October 3, 2016 at 05:42PM via Digg

Portland’s Real-Life Feminist Bookstore: “Fuck Portlandia” The staff say that the show “has had a net negative effect on our neighborhood and the city of Portland as a whole.” And they’ve put a “Fuck Portlandia” sign in their window. October 3, 2016 at 01:29PM via Digg

Why The Action Scenes In 'Seven Samurai' Feel More Emotional Than Today's Box Office Hits One reason the action in Kurosawa's classic "Seven Samurai" is so dramatic is because it's constantly intertwined with emotion, a lesson often forgotten in today's big budget films. October 3, 2016 at 10:35AM via Digg

Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life Decades-old discoveries are now electrifying the computing industry and will soon transform corporate America. October 2, 2016 at 07:39PM via Digg

The Bizarre Second Life of the Utopian “Facebook Killer” For a brief moment two years ago, a social network called Ello looked like it might mount a genuine challenge to Facebook. It... didn't work out that way. October 2, 2016 at 09:22AM via Digg

A Life in Google Maps In Google Maps, the past never truly disappears. October 1, 2016 at 08:35AM via Digg

Scientists Find Evidence for Alternate Theory of How Life Arose The predominant theory of how life arose begins with the development of RNA before DNA, but a new study puts that narrative into question. September 30, 2016 at 03:21AM via Digg

FARC Rebels Prepare To Leave Behind Guns, Drug Trade And The Life They Know After decades at war, Colombia’s FARC fighters face a new struggle: returning to normal life. September 29, 2016 at 07:43PM via Digg

A Guide to the Real-Life Homes of the Heroes of Children's Literature Atlas Obscura mapped the real places that inspired the best kids' books. September 28, 2016 at 09:00PM via Digg

With robots, is a life without work one we'd want to live? Being gainfully employed is about more than money. We need to consider what will give our lives purpose and connection in the age of automation. September 28, 2016 at 07:57PM via Digg

This Startup Gives You Access To Affordable Funding Is high interest debt holding you back from your life goals? Pave gives you access to affordable funding to make your big ideas become reality. September 28, 2016 at 07:38AM via Digg

Stevie Wonder Talks About His Keys To Life America's most beloved R&B singer dishes on his faith, his music, and the virtues of not knowing exactly how bad things are in this archived interview from 2005. September 27, 2016 at 01:59PM via Digg

Life As A Professional Eulogy Writer After sitting through one too many crappy eulogies, Ethan realized there was a lucrative business opportunity at hand. September 26, 2016 at 06:06PM via Digg

Europa moon 'spewing water jets' It is significant because Europa, with its huge subsurface ocean of liquid water, is one of the most likely places to find microbial life beyond Earth. September 26, 2016 at 02:53PM via Digg

A Hypothetical, $37,500 Day in the Life of a Luxury Technophile "Alex inserts her steam-free aerolatte® frother ($28) in the cappuccino for 20 seconds, and asks Alexa for the weather report over the noise. At 9:20 am, Alex fixes a new bristle head into her titanium toothbrush ($4,200)." September 26, 2016 at 01:42PM via Digg