If medicine could break with its barbarous past, why shouldn’t the same path be open to the social sciences?

Estranged but not alienated, devout but not obedient, philosophical but not a systematiser, Simone Weil defies conventions

A warning that unintended but disastrous effects on society have resulted from improved and computerized recordkeeping, owing to (1) the habit of limiting the number of variables considered to those easily quantified, (2) the tendency to use ...

A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.

This post exposes how real-world highly advanced poker cheating devices work.

Learn the 5 reasons why your blood sugar might be elevated, and how you should address each of them.

Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans.

So... When we got a puppy we registered her with the AKC, because purebred and respectable breeder. The AKC is a little like the old roller derby rule where two dogs of the same breed can't have the same name. Except instead of one dog, it's thirty-seven.…

Selections from the Washington Post's Gilded Age coverage of notable visitors to the city

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In a strangely public product announcement, the phone-cracking firm revealed a powerful new device.

For years, the clients of a Colorado funeral home kept their loved ones’ cremated remains. Then the FBI called.

Spot the robot will go on sale later this year

When we work out rigorously on a regular basis, our bodies adjust to limit our ability to expend energy, a new study shows.

Scientists have discovered that the yellow color seen on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is actually sodium chloride, a compound known on Earth as table salt.