2019 edition

Atlassian’s JIRA began life as a bug-tracking tool. Today, though, it has become an agile planning suite, “to plan, track, and release great software.” In many organizations it has become the primary map of software projects, the hub of all development, the…

One reason women tend to be absent from narratives of science is because it’s not as easy to find female scientists on the public record.

‘It’s all in your head’ isn’t something many patients love to hear, but for some of those with the least understood and most expensive ailments, it may be true – and a made-in-Canada approach is uncovering new evidence to back that up

Interactive tutorial for A*, Dijkstra's Algorithm, and other pathfinding algorithms

Brands are giving the masses the illusion that they are consuming luxury, when in reality they are doing nothing of the sort, argues Eugene Rabkin.

Manifesto by progressive Europeans calls for €800bn of levies to tackle inequality, disillusionment, climate change and migration

“I honestly just wanted to know why the F train didn’t have clocks. I never expected it to be so complicated.”

Over the past four years I’ve been writing a book, A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics. It teaches someone with programming…

DEA gets down and dirty with new surveillance kit

Coinbase is the most conservative exchange in cryptoland, largely because it operates in the U.S. under the watchful eye of the SEC. The $8 billion-valued company trades fewer than 10 cryptocurrencies to consumers, but on Friday announced a major expansion…

Kevin Kelly, a writer and speaker best known as a futurist, goes back in time to talk about his early travel years being a backpacker in Asia.

A widely cited result says that 87% of Americans can be uniquely identified by their zip code, sex & birth date. We do a simulation to show this is plausible.

On the Possibility of Progress

Paul M. Romer delivered his lecture on 8 December 2018 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm

At a certain point, another million dollars doesn’t make anything newly affordable. That’s when other motivations take over.