They don’t make the headlines the way charismatic animals such as rhinos and elephants do. But there are thousands of critically endangered plants in the world, and a determined group of botanists are ready to go to great lengths to save them.

For the first time, researchers have discovered that birds can sleep in flight. Together with an international team of colleagues, Niels Rattenborg from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in...

The first rule of PAKE is: nobody ever wants to talk about PAKE. The second rule of PAKE is that this is a shame, because PAKE — which stands for Password Authenticated Key Exchange — is actually o…

As promised in a previous blog entry, what follows is a discussion of the translation of some of my favourite Asterix gags. The translators’ modus operandi was to include as many jokes in the Engli…

An approach to using word embeddings for NLP, dynamic meta-embeddings outperform similar models. This code is now open source.

Publishers' "pivot to video" was driven largely by a belief that if Facebook was seeing users, in massive numbers, shift to video from text, the trend must be real.

The 1966 Apollo Guidance Computer paved the way for the moon landing—and then sat in a scrap heap for decades.

A lawsuit accusing one of the country’s most selective universities of discriminating against Asian-Americans is providing a glimpse into how admissions officers decide “yea” or “nay.”

Its simple design argues that, sometimes, a phone can just be a phone.

On the first day of August, 2012, Foodbeast.com published the article “So Apparently, We’ve Been Using Ketchup Cups All Wrong.”

Trust is a critical component to a thriving digital ecosystem and virtual private networks, or VPNs, offer users a way to disguise and protect their internet traffic. However, providers of commercial VPN services must still foster trust that they adequately…

A couple years ago, a poet friend asked me for advice on opening a non-profit small press bookstore and arts space. My wife, visual artist Marina Eckler, had recently opened...

Despite decades of research on materialism, there are few viable strategies for reducing materialism in younger consumers. In this paper, we present two studies conducted among over 900 adolescents...

Ezra Klein and Sam Harris are usually intellectual adversaries. They butted heads earlier this year on the topic of the science of IQ, which was just one battle in the larger war waged by the “intellectual dark web” against mainstream leftism and identity…