If I was setting up curriculum at a university I’d make an entire semester-long class on The Challenger disaster, and make it required for any remotely STEM-oriented major. Because I think it…

Even in the decade of dissent, Thomas Szasz stood alone when he attacked the idea of madness from the political Right

Seeds of mistrust sewn by anti-encryption laws.

The internet mourned in early February as NASA confirmed that their Opportunity rover – affectionately known as Oppy – was no longer functioning, and the mission was declared over after an astonishingly successful 14 years on Mars.

Like any other field, the world of Software Development has some interesting and famous rules, principles and laws.

The animals hold "social rallies" and choose when to hunt via a sneezing ballot, a study finds.

A few years ago I was playing an old computer game on an emulator for the ZX Spectrum, a machine I grew up with, when I suddenly reset the…

A cultural history of fat.

“I’m fucked up.”

Software rots. That is: Adapting mature software to new circumstances tends to take more time and effort than writing new software from scratch. Software people don't like to admit this, but open so…

A social community and private clubhouse, Chinese automaker Nio wants to do more than sell cars. It wants to become a status symbol

A new bill would outlaw the big, surprise bills that Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital has sent to hundreds of patients.

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Pinterest executives got a surprise during last year’s holiday season. Consumers were spending so much time using the online scrapbook that Pinterest’s computing bills on Amazon Web Services—the internet retailer’s cloud offering—had shot past their expectations.…

The many ways to misspell the hardest names in pop culture.

"There's scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: Is it OK to still have children?" she asked.

Mint is a new low-level HTTP client that aims to provide a small and functional core that others can build on top.