<em>One man’s modus ponens is another man’s modus tollens</em> is a saying in Western philosophy encapsulating a common response to a logical proof which generalizes the <em>reductio ad absurdum</em> and consists of rejecting a premise based on an implied…

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How cartography made early modern global trade possible.

The freedom to say what I think and command my own time is enough for me.

People eat 65 billion chickens every year. It is the fastest-growing meat product. Yet pound for pound the price of chicken has fallen sharply. How has this happened?

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On the latest Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Weinberg explains why it’s time for Congress to step in and make "do not track" the norm.

What happens when the chefs behind North America’s most hedonistic restaurant quit drinking.

Features p.14 introducing the Smalltalk-80 System [author Adele Goldberg] A readers' guide to the Smalltalk articles in this issue. p.36 The Smalltalk-80...

"The Persistence Of Chaos" is the most dangerous art piece. This laptop, turned art, is filled with some of the worst malware known to man, and has caused over $90 billion worth of damage.

In 2016, I came across Oliver Byrne's “The first six books of the Elements of Euclid.” The main feature of this book is that instead of ordinary letter designations such as “triangle ABC,” it employs...

Three orbiters will give first complete view of earth's surface, transforming the way carbon emissions are monitored and reported

A historic structure in Japan is making its way to California.

The University of Illinois is just the latest and not the last business school to shutter its full-time, on-campus MBA program

With the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit, getting started with quantum development is easy. Now we’re helping to make it even easier: we’ve partnered with the  team of educators at Brilliant.org to teach you about quantum computing in a new way.

You wake up on a bus, surrounded by all your remaining possessions. A few fellow passengers slump on pale blue seats around you, their…

University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.