Background Several past studies have found that media reports of suicides and homicides appear to subsequently increase the incidence of similar events in the community, apparently due to the coverage planting the seeds of ideation in at-risk individuals…

The Allies saved thousands of lives by embracing the artistry of war.

It was inventor Franky Zapata's second attempt to fly the 22 miles on his jet-powered craft.

Yesterday, I wrote about science publishing profiteer Elsevier’s legal threats against Citationsy, in which the company claimed that the mere act of linking to Sci-Hub (an illegal open-access…

As seems to be happening annually, due to a short summer lull, we decided to combine the June and July Progress Reports. As you may have noticed, we're a few days into August at this point and things ended up running a bit late. That's actually a consequence…

The decision to delay a $10 billion computing contract for which Amazon was the favorite reflected both opposition from President Trump and an aggressive campaign by an industry rival.

We didn’t start the fire

Class-action lawsuit filed in California against Capital One... and GitHub???

I use vim. I’ve used vim since I started programming; the very first program I
wrote – hello world in C, following along a cprogramming. …

Nearly everyone in American politics believes we face an energy crisis, and nearly everyone believes we need a technological solution that will make America “energy independent.” Americans are, as President Bush put it in his 2006 State of the Union address…

Introduction

They slaughtered our ancestors and derailed our history. And they’re not finished with us yet.

Two new studies show that the brain’s navigation system changes how it represents physical space to reflect personal experience.