Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle in 'Tetris' is time and one's own ability to navigate it - kind of like life itself. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
VR could, in theory, connect sports fans in different geographical locations so they could watch a game together. Instead of a group… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Throughout the Great Recession of 2008, the average 401(k) balance lost anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of value. Nobody was more… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
'Power breaking,' also called Hanmadang - which means something like celebration or festival in Korean - involves breaking large amounts of wood,… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Even as Instagram defines our visual moment, we use the app's filters to travel backwards in time, to make our images resemble… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book,… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As the issue of youth fitness - from obesity to proper exercise regimens - takes on more resonance in schools and communities across the… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
