New York Times Year in Ideas

This month, as in the past five Decembers, the magazine looks back on the passing year from a distinctive vantage point: that of ideas. Our editors and writers have located the peaks and valleys of ingenuity — the human cognitive faculty deployed with intentions good and bad, purposes serious and silly, consequences momentous and morbid. The resulting intellectual mountain range extends across a wide territory. Now it’s yours for the traversing in a compendium of 74 ideas arranged from A to Z.

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  • The Aerotropolis
  • Air-Index Impressionism
  • The Ambient Walkman
  • The Ballot That Is Also a Lottery Ticket
  • The Beer-Gut Flask
  • Bicycle Helmets Put You at Risk
  • Big Urbanism
  • The Boomerang Drone
  • Cohabitation Is Bad for Women’s Health
  • The Comb That Listens
  • Creative Shrinkage
  • Digital Maoism
  • The Diplomat-Parking-Violation Corruption Index
  • The Drivable One-Man Blimp
  • The E. Coli Wipe
  • Empty-Stomach Intelligence
  • Energy-Harvesting Floors
  • The Eyes of Honesty
  • The Fashion Czar
  • For-Profit Philanthropy
  • The Gyroball
  • The Hidden-Fee Economy
  • Homophily
  • Human-Chimp Hybrids
  • The Humane Flophouse
  • Hyperopia
  • Indie Sitcoms
  • Jujitsu Advertising
  • The Lady Macbeth Effect
  • Literary Spam
  • Low Starting Prices Lead to High Auction Sales
  • Misery Chic
  • Money-Circulation Science
  • The Myth of ‘the Southern Strategy’
  • Narcissistic Celebrities
  • N.C.A.A. Psyop
  • Negativity Friendships
  • The New Inequality
  • Olfactory Cuisine
  • Paternity Confidence
  • Phantom Pianists
  • Psychological Neoteny
  • Publication Probity
  • Redefining Torture
  • The Return of the Corporate State
  • Reverse Graffiti
  • The Robot Fielder
  • Rods From God
  • Sailing an Oil Tanker
  • Salt That Doesn’t Stick
  • Shipping Containers Explain Everything
  • Smart Elevators
  • The Social-Cue Reader
  • Sousveillance
  • Speed-Reducing Art
  • Spit Art
  • Sporno
  • Straw That Saves Lives
  • Taxing Virtual Economies
  • Techno Fashion
  • The Tongue Sucker
  • Trash-Talk Exegesis
  • Tushology
  • Unscratchable Paint
  • The Visage Problem
  • Voting-Booth Feng Shui
  • Walk-In Health Care
  • Web-Based Microfinancing
  • The Wheelchair Car
  • Wine That Ages Instantly
  • Workplace Rumors Are True
  • Yodeling Is Universal
  • The YouTube Referee Indictment
  • The Ziggurat of Zealotry

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