Bianca Bosker
The New York Times
New York, NY, United States
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A Daughter’s Tribute to Her Father and His Taste for Bordeaux
In “The Wine Lover’s Daughter,” Anne Fadiman weaves her own memoir with a biography of her father, Clifton Fadiman, and the compendium of wine knowledge he instilled in her. → Read More
The Veteran Photographer Making Stunning New Buildings
Hiroshi Sugimoto is creating architecture that looks great today, but will look even better later — in ruin, 1,000 years from now. → Read More
Ignore the Snobs, Drink the Cheap, Delicious Wine
Flavor engineers are designing bottles to please consumers’ palates. → Read More
Slovenia’s (Burgeoning) Fairy Tale of a City
Where to eat, sleep and shop in Ljubljana, the country’s majestic capital. → Read More
Pulling Back the Curtain on Princeton’s Ivy Club
The first time I tried to go to Ivy, I wasn’t allowed in. I was a pre-frosh visiting Princeton University from my hippie high school in Oregon (masco → Read More
China’s Ban on “Weird” Architecture Is a Global Power Play
Visitors who travel to the Minhang People’s Court in Shanghai will find themselves staring up at the U.S. Capitol building. This courthouse, like half a dozen others around China, is an almost exact replica of the Washington, D.C. landmark, with a few flourishes cribbed from the White House. It is a short distance away from Thames Town, a British-themed gated community built for 10,000 people,… → Read More
16 And Famous: How Nash Grier Became The Most Popular Kid In The World
Photos by Heather Marie Photography Nash Grier has a tendency to wreak havoc on malls. One time in Iceland, a single tweet about his whereabouts brought 5,000 girls to a shopping center in search of Nash and his sidekick, Jerome Jarre. &ldq... → Read More
Facebook Now Takes Up About As Much Of Our Time As Grooming Or Chores
American Facebook members spend an average of 40 minutes per day on the social network -- about as much time as Americans devote to household chores and personal grooming. Mark Zuckerberg shared the statistic on Facebook usage during an earnings c... → Read More
Study Shows How People Use Snapchat -- And It's Not Sexting
Sexting on Snapchat may be less common than you think, at least according to a new survey of adults who use the app. A study from the University of Washington that polled 127 Snapchat users ages 18 and over found that 60 percent of respondents use... → Read More
The Most Anxiety-Provoking Instagram Photo Is No Photo At All
One of my closest friends posted something highly suspect on Instagram last month: Nothing. He and a handful of friends were on a four-day getaway, and none shared a photo the entire time they were gone. On Instagram -- the de-facto distribution ... → Read More
How Emoji Get Lost In Translation
I recently texted a friend to say how I was excited to meet her new boyfriend, and, because "excited" doesn't look so exciting on an iPhone screen, I editorialized with what seemed then like an innocent "." (Translation: Can't wai... → Read More
Teens Can't Stop Using Facebook Even Though They Hate It
Facebook is like indoor plumbing: You can live without it, but it’s uncomfortable. It’s thus little surprise to learn a new study has found teens are not ditching Facebook en masse, contrary to previous polls. According to a survey of... → Read More
Tinder Tutors Ease The Burden of Picking Out 6 Photos
When the matchmaking app Tinder first launched, everyone claimed it was the easiest, laziest way to date online. There were no quizzes, no essays, no personality tests. Even reading was optional. But those people were wrong. Tinder is hard. You m... → Read More
Facebook's Snapchat Ripoff Has A Major Flaw
Facebook, the social network that needs, loves and wrings many billions of dollars out of our photos, has jealously watched Snapchat attract a greater share of our pictures, over 700 million of which we share daily on the app. To stop the hemorrhagin... → Read More
How Emoticons Can Make You Happy And Win You Friends
No form of communication has been as maligned as the emoticon. Emily Post's decorum police thumb their noses at smileys' grins. "[T]hey look juvenile in business," the etiquette gods caution. "[A]void using them." The distaste for... → Read More
Don't Believe The So-Called Turing Test Breakthrough
This past weekend, the University of Reading managed to convince the press that a chatbot had, for the first time ever, successfully passed the Turing Test by fooling judges into believing it was human. It's fitting that the software that allegedl... → Read More
Snapchat Wins Because You Have No Attention Span
What makes Snapchat so addictive, according to the standard refrain, is that it lets people send incriminating pictures guilt-free. Instead of us being self-destructive, it's the messages that self-destruct. But for many Snapchatters, the appeal o... → Read More
Should Online Ads Really Offer Binge Drinkers A Booze Discount?
Does the Internet have a duty to protect us from ourselves? I began to wonder as I attempted to trick Facebook into believing I was single. Hoping to escape the plague of bridal ads that descended after I announced my engagement, I tried to confus... → Read More
Erasing Your Engagement From The Internet Is Impossible -- I Know, I Tried
No one is more excited about my wedding than Facebook. Or possibly Google. As they seem to see it, since getting engaged I’ve become an impressionable ATM from which their advertisers expect to withdraw some $30,000 -- the average price of ... → Read More
How #Hashtags Became The Raised Fist Of Punctuation
Hashtags began as a way to search for tweets about specific topics (#socialmedia), evolved into a tool for adding nuance (#ohyeah) and are now showing up in places where they appear to serve no practical function whatsoever: on T-shirts, book covers,... → Read More