| Slate Is Hiring a Senior Editor |
[26 May 2015|02:34pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/slate_fare/2015/05/jobs_at_slate_senior_editor_in_charge_of_slate_plus.html Slate is hiring for the full-time position of senior editor. Ideal candidates will be deft, sensitive editors; entrepreneurial, smart, funny, and energetic; and write sparkling copy. The editor’s primary role will be to serve as editorial director of Slate Plus, Slate’s growing membership program; the editor will also oversee and assign stories for other sections of Slate. The successful candidate will be able to build relationships with other editors and writers at Slate and to manage a small team with a high metabolism, editing and creating both daily content and ambitious larger packages like our Slate Academies. The editor will also strategize, analyze membership data on traffic and conversions, and help lead Slate Plus into the future by developing new kinds of content and pursuing new ideas to bring members closer to the magazine and raise revenue.
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| Slate Is Hiring a Senior Editor |
[26 May 2015|02:34pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/slate_fare/2015/05/jobs_at_slate_senior_editor_in_charge_of_slate_plus.html Slate is hiring for the full-time position of senior editor. Ideal candidates will be deft, sensitive editors; entrepreneurial, smart, funny, and energetic; and write sparkling copy. The editor’s primary role will be to serve as editorial director of Slate Plus, Slate’s growing membership program; the editor will also oversee and assign stories for other sections of Slate. The successful candidate will be able to build relationships with other editors and writers at Slate and to manage a small team with a high metabolism, editing and creating both daily content and ambitious larger packages like our Slate Academies. The editor will also strategize, analyze membership data on traffic and conversions, and help lead Slate Plus into the future by developing new kinds of content and pursuing new ideas to bring members closer to the magazine and raise revenue.
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| Apocalypse Moon |
[26 May 2015|02:37pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/05/neal_stephenson_discusses_his_new_novel_seveneves_and_the_role_of_science.html Neal Stephenson’s new novel, Seveneves, begins: “The Moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.” Scientists realize humanity has roughly two years to come up with a survival strategy before millions of lunar bits start hitting the Earth and ignite the atmosphere in a biblical rain of fire. The first half of the novel concerns our frantic efforts to launch as much stuff and personnel into space as possible, turning the International Space Station into a jury-rigged ark. But it’s not all heroics: The ensuing dickering, wasted effort, and celebrity cameos make it clear that this world is more or less our own.
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| Outside Amy Schumer |
[26 May 2015|07:06pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/05/fashion_on_inside_amy_schumer_how_the_sketch_show_sneakily_spoofs_what_women.html In the new season of her show, Amy Schumer’s feminism has gotten blunter. While Season 1 tended to come at feminist issues from askew, with weird, surprising sketches like “clown panties”—in which her boyfriend has an affair with a clown—recent episodes feature clunkier riffs on Hollywood’s gender norms and female empowerment. But as Inside Amy Schumer has evolved, one thing has remained as sharp and subtle as ever: her satire of female fashion. Schumer has always been perceptive about the ways women clothe themselves in various situations, whether as public theater or on their own couch, and about the world’s relentless focus on said clothing. From the “basic” fedora she wears in her sketch about women who can’t accept compliments to the sad little satin cupcake dress in her Toddlers in Tiaras spoof, Amy’s outfits adds a sneaky satirical layer to her perspective on how women engage with the world.
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| Only Voters Count? |
[26 May 2015|10:21pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/05/evenwel_v_abbott_supreme_court_case_state_districts_count_voters_or_total.html For the second time in a year, the Supreme Court has agreed to wade into an election case at the urging of conservatives. In both cases it has done so despite the issue appearing to be settled by long-standing precedent. In a case expected to be decided next month, Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, conservatives asked the court to bar states from using independent redistricting commissions to draw congressional lines. In a case the court agreed to hear Tuesday, Evenwel v. Abbott, conservatives asked the court to require states to draw their legislative district lines in a particular way: Rather than considering the total population in each district, conservatives argue, the lines should instead divide districts according to the number of people registered or eligible to vote. Most states use total population for drawing districts, which includes noncitizens, children, felons, and others ineligible to vote.
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| Snapchat Isn’t Selling Out |
[26 May 2015|10:56pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/05/snapchat_s_new_business_plan_is_surprisingly_old_fashioned.html On the surface, Facebook is about people and relationships. Peel back its skin, however, and you’ll find layer upon layer of data. Your news feed is the product of a stunningly complex ranking system that evaluates your friends’ posts on features like timeliness, relevance, and virality. Those same rankings determine which of your friends will see your own Facebook posts, and how far down they’ll have to scroll to find them. Your every move on Facebook—scroll, click, like, comment—is recorded, analyzed, and factored into the site’s inner workings.
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| Good Riddance to Little League |
[26 May 2015|11:48pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2015/05/little_league_waning_it_s_time_for_organized_youth_sports_to_die.html Is Little League participation on the wane? And, if so, should we care? Those were two major questions raised by a Wall Street Journal piece from last week documenting the apparent decline of casual sporting leagues in a nation of kids who have either been bewitched by video games or encouraged to specialize in one sport year-round—or both, if the sport in which they specialize is competitive Minecraft. Whether you find the WSJ report convincing and conclusive—and there are good reasons to be skeptical of it—it should raise in your mind an overwhelmingly important point: Little League and other youth sports leagues are terrible, and we should not be sad to see them go.
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