The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Malcolm Gladwell
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves,” the eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume wrote. “It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.” But what if you could quantify it?
by Malcolm Gladwell
“Adolescents aren’t trying to be like adults — they are trying to contrast themselves with adults,” she thought. “And it was as if a light had gone on in the sky.”
by Malcolm Gladwell
As you drive east on Atlantic Avenue, through the part of New York City that the Police Department refers to as Brooklyn North, the neighborhoods slowly start to empty out: the genteel brownstones of the western part of Brooklyn give way to sprawling housing projects and vacant lots.
by Malcolm Gladwell
How the mouse was conceived by the computer scientist Douglas Engelbart, developed by Xerox, and made marketable by Apple.
by Malcolm Gladwell
We are, apparently, in the midst of an economic revolution brought about the internet. But is it possible that we’ve been dazzled by the catalogues and forgotten the roads?
by Malcolm Gladwell
The truly successful businessman is anything but a risk-taker. He is a predator, and predators always try to incur the least risk possible.
by Malcolm Gladwell
Face-reading depends not just on seeing facial expressions but also on taking them seriously.
